Ran across this video that brought back a lot of memories for me! Having a salvage has an awful lot of opportunity for geniuses and idiots, and my brothers and I spent time in both camps! We made more than a couple homemade “dune buggies” and “stump jumpers”, but nothing as overpowered as this thing. 7mm
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a buddy and I built a similar contraption between Junior and Senior years of HS. We removed the body, and cut a foot out of the frame of a 55 Ford, welded it back together. we shortened the drive shaft, put some big tires on it, and towed it out to Jax Beach to ride the sand dunes and beach. It actually worked pretty good.
When in high school me and a coup,le of neighborhood brothers got access to a 55 Pontiac Chieftain and cut the body off and shortened the frame. It had Pontiac's first V8, a and the old 4 speed hydramatic, a 287 Strato Streak, which I believe was about 220 HP to keep in line with similar Fords and Chevy's. It weight about 700 pounds. We never could get it to start. That was a god send. We would have certainly killed ourselves. Later, after we junked it, I found out we had wired it with the wrong firing order. God moves in mysterious ways.
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What goes up must come down, what goes around comes around, there's no free lunch. Trump's comin' back, get over it!
I've found that most people are just smart enough to get themselves killed before their time. Age is our savior. If were lucky to survive our first 30 years or so, as we live we see and experience things that we were too dumb to learn the easy way.
Last edited by Filaman; 11/18/19.
What goes up must come down, what goes around comes around, there's no free lunch. Trump's comin' back, get over it!
Wow, I thought it was bad when my buddy bolted a 350 hp 350 into a Vega.
He built several high horse Camaros. And one day after he swapped the SB out of a Camaro and replaced it with a high output 454, he thought the 327 belonged in this Vega hatchback he had stumbled across.
Anyway, as he was turning the last bolt on the install, a neighbor wandered over and made him an offer. He thought for a second about the inevitable outcome if he were to put the Vega on the street, and accepted the offer.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
One of my friends shoe horned a 900cc Kawasaki engine into an old yard kart. Fun. He still drags it out sometimes for the kiddies (teenagers) to play with. Full roll cage with harness and keepers so the arms don't get outside the cage. No helmet no ride.
