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PostPosted: July 8, 2013, 4:38 pm 
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PostPosted: August 18, 2013, 10:39 pm 
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Actually had the car out a few times this month -- something I don't get to do too much with two toddler seats to fill! ;-)

The car feels as good as ever. Mostly toted one of my neices or nephews here or there. Seems I get lost each time I drive it, and end up 20 miles out of town, attempting to get to the store a mile away. Think I should install a GPS?

I never did run the cable to shut off the heater core valve I put so much fuss into. This is a drag in the summer, as hot air ambles out of the vents. Wouldn't take an hour to fix with a lawn mower choke cable.

Who knows...maybe I'll actually get in the shop and finish the rear body work this winter and paint it next spring. Hmm...I don't think I'd recognize it!

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PostPosted: June 19, 2014, 12:20 am 
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I was wondering about how much your frame weighed before you started adding the drivetrain and body to it, I'm about to start a build soon but my main focus is keeping weight to a minimum. And do you think it would be possible to do with round tubing instead?


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Dave, that gettin lost thing is just taking the scenic route, after all, you get there in the end.

bit like building the car really.

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PostPosted: June 20, 2014, 11:41 pm 
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fix with a lawn mower choke cable.


Lawn mowers don't have chokes anymore. You're just starting your parenting adventure. Expect to notice the world has changed when you next start to really notice it again. In about 12 or 14 years is my guess.
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PostPosted: February 7, 2015, 9:46 pm 
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Any-thing-that-rolls wrote:
I was wondering about how much your frame weighed before you started adding the drivetrain and body to it, I'm about to start a build soon but my main focus is keeping weight to a minimum. And do you think it would be possible to do with round tubing instead?

Seems I recall it was 54 pounds, without the floor or rear end... But I'm not sure. There's a picture of it hanging from a Scaife in my build log somewhere.

Round tubes are doable, but a big pain in the ass mounting things to it. This had been discussed extensively in another thread.

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PostPosted: December 12, 2015, 9:38 am 
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This is why I have that big, ugly windshield frame: http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region_arti ... mwiIGSrRaE

The article happily reports that the driver's face stopped inches before the guard rail wiped his nose, and that he was relatively uninjured. Close call!


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Yes. This and the omnipresent hooved furry woodland creatures around here are excellent reasons to deviate from the classic form.

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Very lucky fellow.
It says he came from where the police car is parked, so he probably had the backend step out, hit the guardrail and then snapped around. To have your face within a fraction of an inch at the guardrail must be horrendous. He now drives the only monster truck in Germany. :shock:

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Pictures like that that are making me include a front hoop as well as a rear. tradition matters little if you can't live to carry it out!

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My Locost (When I ever get around to building it) will definitely have a full cage. Besides our vigorous White-Tail population, this is also cattle country, and they're not real great at recognizing fences and/or boundary lines. On more than one occasion I've woken up and found the neighbors herd in my front yard. And we've got some wild Tom Turkeys around here that could put a serious 'hurt' on a Locost!

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Good thing he was driving solo at the time. It appears the passenger side of the roll bar is what stopped the car from submarining under the guard rail completely, and a passenger's head would not have fared well 'twixt guard rail and roll bar.

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Way back when the feds established a standard 18" bumper height we had some ability to avoid drive under accidents. That all went away with SUVs. The knobs in my town think guard rail bottoms should be at Miata cowl height. So trucks won't roll over the top. :x


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At least you still have guard rails. ARDOT has gone nuts for stringing steel cables between I-beams, with the open ends turned to face traffic. They'll slice-n-dice a motorcyclist, and I've seen them shear the side off a car like a knife.

The only reason I'm going with a cage is the prevalence of Satan's Hooved Minions in my area. My wife calls the front hoop the "Bambi bar."


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"Bambi bar!" I love it! That's what I'm calling mine from now on. Will save a lot of conversation time.

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