Dad's NEW Project

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

I saw plans for one of these on my dad's work bench. I warned my mother.

[6T5 square]

I think the second car is your room

[njgt-1]

Little big for the Christmas Tree ??

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

LOL John, he's sending off to be decontaminated.

[Bugaru "JAY"]

 

I saw plans for one of these on my dad's work bench. I warned my mother.

Hey Beet.
I just noticed this topic. I've actually built something like this and we used it on the traintracks. When I owned a cycle shop the insurance companies use to try to dump there wrecks on me, some I could use for parts etc, but others were bassiclly almost useless. We began to use the smaller cycle engines on go carts. Yes go carts. What we ended up with was a gocart with 350CC, 450, even 750cc engine on them and 4 or 5 foward speeds. Trust me when I say that these babies were quick. Then we got the Brain fart to strech the axels wide enough to fit onto the train tracks. We use to use 2" steel pipe that had a sleve over it that we could unblot the axels so the cart would fit in the back of a pickup or van. We even made one that was a four seater. For wheels we used old VW 15" wheels, the lip on the rims helped to keep the wheels on the tracks. No tires, just the rims. We would take these traincarts down to the pinelands and place them on the tracks and venture as far as we wanted through the adbandoned unused widerness, remote lakes, and party land, the girls loved it, and you could be as drunk as you wanted and didn't have to worry about steering stright. You couldn't touch the steering or go to fast or it would jump the tracks. Trust me I know! You couldn't accelate to quickly because the rims would just spin, also the wheels often slipped and little or no traction on the steel rails due to the lightness of the carts, so we soon began to use the large rubber band like spoke protector that we used when laceing harley rims, several of them usually on one wheel. The rubber helped to ad traction but wouldn't last much longer then a day or so. To turn around it took two of us to pick the cart up and face it in the oppsite direction. Lots of fun, oh-oooo the crazy things we've done back when life was simple.   drive&&

[Le vw181]

HEy that would be fun to chase the AMTRACK's bullet to go to NY !

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

LOL Jay you're like you stayed off the main line! Sometimes tracks that look abandoned aren't. Dad has a RR maintinece vehicle it's pretty cool it looks like a cube with a motor and wheels right now it's just collecting dust.  :'(

[njgt-1]

and place them on the tracks and venture as far as we wanted through the adbandoned unused widerness, remote lakes, and party land, the girls loved it,

Hey one wrong turn and there could have been new meaning to "Light at the end of the tunnel"!  shocked