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Hi everyone! I have been a lurker on the site for over 10 years. In fact at one point I had a beater Miata for a donor but it was too nice to use.( I did drive it for a year). I even went to welding classes at the local community college because of the awesome people associated with the Locost Forums. I hope to build a Locost someday still.

I figured the building the Buggy would be a good learning experience.

My build started in summer 2010. I finished it summer 2013. (sat idle for a while and I got no heat in the garage ha) I am sorry I didn't take pictures of the build.
Here is a few pictures.
Thanks so much.
Tommy

Cool! I'd seen Ron's Build-Your-Own-Off-Road-Buggy book but never seen anything built from it. It looks like a good Introduction To Locosting project.

Keep up the good work, and welcome to the monkey house.

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Neat lookin' buggy ya got there. And, like Jack said, now that you've practiced up on the buggy, you're ready to go full-scale and build a Locost.



Yeah, like he said, keep up the good work.

I kinda resent the "Monkey House" comment. Now, would someone please pass the bananas this way???


JDK

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"Gonzo and friends: Last night must have been quite a night. Camelot moments, mechanical marvels, Rustoleum launches, flying squirrels, fru-fru tea cuppers, V8 envy, Ensure catch cans -- and it wasn't even a full moon." -- SeattleTom

Welcome to the Monkey House was a short story by Kurt Vonnegut that didn't have monkeys or goats even. It didn't have cars but it did have a really cool title.

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put on a bigger motor and better tires and you've got a very fun and dangerous A Mod

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OOPS I did it again
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17496

Blood Sweat and Beers
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15216

What fun! Something like that would be a great project to do once my car is done and my girl is old enough.

Hopefully the former happens before I can add "to vote" on the latter.

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-Justin

"Orville Wright did not have a pilots license." - Gordon MacKenzie

Thanks so much. This made my day! I am so happy you guys like my buggy. I will try to keep up the good work. Still need to make some fenders and maybe a snow plow.

@toobusy, yes it would be crazy fun and dangerous to put a bigger motor on , but I am okay with the 110cc copy motor. If I were to change it. I would maybe use a 1985-86 Honda ATC 250R motor and it would probably bounce my butt right out of the thing.

I can't start on the Locost 7 just yet, but I am always thinking about it. I am always searching Pinto, Bobcat, Capri, Datsun, MG, Chevette, Corolla, RX7, Opel and of course Miata!

Thanks

Hey, that's cool! Looks like a lot of fun.

Sounds like you've got the bug hard! Keep obsessing. Don't wait until you're "ready" to take on a Locost build...just start tacking a frame together and the path will rise to meet you. Looking at what you built, I see no significant difference between it and a street legal car. More details, bigger scale...but same ol' stuff when you get down to it.

The two important things are: 1) You stared 2) You completed. You're qualified.


-dave

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