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Looks slow as crap for $15,000

Keep in mind that today's 1/10-scale buggies that go 50 - 60 mph are doing 500 - 600 scale mph, which is ridiculously out-of-proportion...

Proportion or not. Still slow. I could easily build a car that size for less than half that and goes twice as fast.

If the buggies stayed with the scale guidelines then they would weigh close to 200 lb.

The four stroke engine sounds awesome! Thanks for posting.

Limestang

Or for the same money I can get a new Side-by-Side and drive it the old fashioned way.

Just R/C a small quad and make a body for it........Way cheaper!

Thats what I was just going to post. Use a quad or something similar as the base and put a fiberglass body on it.

I've always wanted to get one of the old fiberglass bodied go karts and convert it to R/C use which would be easy.

I think it would be awesome to see 10-15 of these things racing around a huge track, but the cost pretty much guarantees that will never happen. It is definitely very cool in its own right, but imho fails in performance (from what I can see from one video), and definitely in price. I agree that you could build something a lot better for a lot less.

On a related note... This reminds me of a mini go cart my old boss had. It was about 4 feet long and had a very scale looking 67 nova body on it. There was no seat or anything, you just sat on the roof and your feet hung over the hood. There was a handle bar that stuck up through the windshield. I wanted it so bad. Would have been very easy to convert to rc. Take that handlebar off and drop in some some giant scale electronics. Iirc it was a 3hp Briggs, and it probably only weighed about 50lbs. It would do 30-35 with a full grown man on it, would have been a monster with no one on it.

Lowgear wrote:Thats what I was just going to post. Use a quad or something similar as the base and put a fiberglass body on it.

I've always wanted to get one of the old fiberglass bodied go karts and convert it to R/C use which would be easy.

You beat me to it. Lol.

This is it. This one has foot pegs, my boss' didn't have those. His did have a nice custom paint job (it's a high end restoration shop so no surprise there), and looked a lot nicer than this one. This one is for sale for 1200 obo. Seems a little steep, but I guess they are probably pretty rare. Coincidentally, my oss had a ZR-1 too, but black.

I was thinking of the fiberglass bodied full size go Karts you sat in. They used to come in all shapes and sizes by various manufacturers.

Ah yes, those new ones with the handlebars where you sit on the roof would be awesome and even more simple to convert. From the day they came out I always thought how cool it would be to convert one. They sell a myriad of bodies for them on eBay.

Lowgear wrote:I was thinking of the fiberglass bodied full size go Karts you sat in. They used to come in all shapes and sizes by various manufacturers.

Ah yes, those new ones with the handlebars where you sit on the roof would be awesome and even more simple to convert. From the day they came out I always thought how cool it would be to convert one. They sell a myriad of bodies for them on eBay.

Going to have to check those bodies out. I've seen a lot of go karts for sale for next to nothing. The chassis would be pretty easy to build.

Here you go I found the link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/macomberfiberglassbodies/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

I like the 55 Chevy, but its 1/4 scale. Not crazy about the other ones. They're are some more on Ebay. Found a cool 3rd gen Z28 body on craigslist.