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PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 7:41 am    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

richardcraineum wrote:
you aaaah... seem like a bit of a negative nelly in your last couple posts here. you feeling alright buddy? maybe a little clinically depressed?

There are optimists, pessimists and realists. I tend toward the latter. On my budget and at my age finding one even though perhaps is possible, affording it, getting it home and running is little more than a dream. Plus it is a single use vehicle whereas an track equipt Buggy could be whapped back to wheels in a few minutes if done correctly.

Adding tracks to my Buggy is a much more achievable goal.
richardcraineum wrote:
I saw one of these snow Trac things for sale, possibly on skeezbay, a while back. within the last year or two. I couldn't believe it and probably never see one for sale again but who knows

I rest my case...
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:05 am    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:24 am    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

A little google noodling this morning turned up this thread,
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=451196

Mattracks makes track adapter kits. But I bet they're not cheap. And they will take a little fabrication to fit a VW.
https://mattracks.co/tracks/all/
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

No doubt in my mind that they would work in powder snow. The biggest downside for me was the cost. And shipping to Canada almost doubles that!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

it's not rocket appliances to build a set of those, I've seen a bunch of guys on the net build those at home of all various sizes and out of various parts.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 6:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

Goggle them, some Guy out of Canada tried to set me up to sell them ,, Hint dude only spoke french Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

that's pretty cool, hard to watch with the stupid commentary though
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:26 am    Post subject: Re: Snow Tracks Reply with quote

Some interesting ideas there!
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