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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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 Posted - Sep 26 2003 : 5:34:04 PM
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Does anyone have $1000 that I can borrow 
someones selling it for 1800...Ive been dreaming about having one
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1133 Posts |
Posted - Sep 28 2003 : 11:22:06 PM
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I guess every one is in the same poor state I am
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Nerf Smurf
Mad Scientist
USA
390 Posts |
Posted - Sep 29 2003 : 01:14:22 AM
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what exacly is a sand rail. I heard of it and/ or probably forgot.
Edward, A. Williams Jr.
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Sep 29 2003 : 09:23:28 AM
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Google -> Sand rail
Sorry, no money to give away. However, it seems rather easy to make one. A little steel tubing, suspension from a donor car, and of course a 13B rotary to power the sucker. Should be doable for $1000 with heavy scrounging. The only bank-breaker will be the wheels/tires.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1133 Posts |
Posted - Sep 29 2003 : 5:54:25 PM
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no i think it would be closer to 2000 build a cheezy one...If i could find an old VW bug id go at it. as for the rotary engine, that would be sweet.
Ive been looking for either an RX-7 or turbo supera (preferably rx-7) or VW. for my next big project. but the dune buggy would be alot more fun especially out at the farm, and backroading
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Sep 30 2003 : 09:26:21 AM
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Nah, $2000 seems like alot...
Donor car: $50 or free. 
Metal tubing: $500, less if scrounged
Misc: $300-$400
Obviously, we're talking about heavily scrounging things...Since I have extra rotary engines hanging around, that is one of the "free" parts for me.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1133 Posts |
Posted - Sep 30 2003 : 5:24:12 PM
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Yeah see If I had a car I could use I would have already built something like this. this one had power something...I didn't look. Actually, now that I think about it, it was probably the brake fluid resivor. it had a pretty odd design for a sand rail...well it wasnt really for sand, more for offroading
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Oct 07 2003 : 3:05:15 PM
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Many years ago my grandfather built one out of an old VW Bug he hauled out of a scrap yard. It was pretty basic but it was a lot of fun to crash through the woods with.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1133 Posts |
Posted - Oct 07 2003 : 9:09:40 PM
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yeah thats about what Im looking for...around here, we go camping on the weekends and for fun we jump the terraces in fallow fields...its pretty fun but its hell on my shocks. plus it would be fun to take to Colorado
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Oct 09 2003 : 4:48:48 PM
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Jack the suspension up and put heavy truck tires on the thing.
On a related note, there was a mercedies benz chassis attached to a monster truck frame at an autobody shop near my old place. It also had the old 1970's style police lights on the top! Pretty wild.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1133 Posts |
Posted - Oct 09 2003 : 7:08:10 PM
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I have some pretty heavy duty all terrain tires on my truck. However, I dont want to raise it because it would raise my center of balance. Seeings how I also enjoy backroading, I really like the manuverability on my frontier and I would hate to loose it.
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Sand Rail
