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PostPosted: January 13, 2012, 3:50 pm 
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not much of info, but here's the site

http://www.raymondloewy.org/gallery/loewy_buggy.html


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PostPosted: January 13, 2012, 4:15 pm 
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Good Lord... who need suspension when the chassis will simply twist in the center.
Even says right on that site, "... Function is out. Form is in." People are somehow seeing the word "different" and reading "better." No.

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PostPosted: January 14, 2012, 3:38 pm 
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lol. The chassis articulates before the suspension. :D


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PostPosted: January 14, 2012, 10:07 pm 
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I don't think the steering precision is a high priority in sand, I just likethe way it looks like a 2/1 scale 'fun kart'

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The guy did have some more functional designs too. A few locomotives, and some Studebakers, among other less noisy things.


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PostPosted: January 14, 2012, 11:17 pm 
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IA599 wrote:
I don't think the steering precision is a high priority in sand


It's not. I might have lived in Michigan, but we had great dunes just below the UP. Honestly, the way most of the guys were driving, they had more in common with aircraft.... "Landing Survivability".... :lol:

(Good lord... Brady's whipping Tebow like a red headed step child that insulted a southern bible school instructor.... :lol: )

Considering it looks like a way back when predecessor of an air cooled buggy, I approve. ^_^

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PostPosted: January 17, 2012, 3:31 am 
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That looks like most of a Meyers Towd. And no, that's not a misspelling.


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PostPosted: January 18, 2012, 5:22 pm 
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It does! Just missing the hood/dash section.

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PostPosted: January 18, 2012, 6:44 pm 
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Loewy may have owned it but it is a Meyers Tow'd


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