San Diego BS Thread.

But if i can buy dads from him for cheap i can live with it for a while, then hack it up. (may even swap in a subie/turbo'd motor before i go a-arms).

From what I've read you just gotta have
A. welder
B. pipe
C. pipe bender
D. grinder
E. tape measure
F. the ability to do the work
G. front suspension (air shocks, or CO's)


We gotta sell our street legal golf cart before we get a buggy though.

 

To go to school?
We're looking at a house ~ a hour from the college i'll be going to, and i'm not sure i want to put those miles on my truck.

Yeah, i could get a car, but that's not fun off road or on a rough dirt road, and it'd be a old car with high mileage to be in the price range of a buggy.

 

My god... Please stop calling it pipe! You're discrediting yourself with just that.

 

My first car was a Meyers Manx VW... had a custom roof rack and side curtains for wet weather, too! Here it is in 1975 near El Mármol, Baja California (next to an even older 'buggy'):

 

So you are going to drive a buggy 1hr to and from school everyday

 

I had credit to begin with?

Why not? the buggy's i've ridden in/driven where very comfortable to drive and be a passenger.

 

I don't think driving an open frame buggy and hour anywhere but the dunes/dez would be ideal, especially in the south where weather is very temperamental. Get a bug, throw a sube motor on it with some suspension, and enjoy having a heater, windshield and top while getting 40mpg

 

Is that like calling 'line' on a sailboat "rope"?

 

meh
We'll see what i end up doing

i dunno, what's the difference in line and rope?

Tube is a structural thing while pipe is a mere vessel.

 

Pipe is for transportation fluid or gas, it's measured by its internal dimension. Tubing is for structural applications and is measured by its outside dimension.

 

your looking at buying a house but yet your gonna buy toys.....

 

I ain't buying a house, if i bought anything it'd be a acre of land and a small trailer, and that'd be in VA. not MS.

 

some good shit right there. i learned to drive in that manx. and spent lots of time in baja with it. mostly san felipe and san quintin

heres my own vintage(for me) photo on the endless beach of baja

san quintin

 

heres another photo

 

Not really sure how I feel about Plastidip on my truck.

Jake you should get a geo tracker 4x4, sidekick, or samurai.
Otherwise just buy a car for the freeway.

 

I had my bug with a warrior front end and 1x2 rear arms. It was plenty for the country. Maybe pulled 8-10 with fo. 2.0s. Tube frame car with grasshoppers, your brave. Lol even stock bugs do pretty good. Pick up a stock ifs and bolt on a Manx body. Would be a fun little beater.

 

I'd rather ride a dual sport as a dd than a rail. My 2 cents from a country boy.

 

What antennas are you guys running with that Kenwood radio?

 

Go to hro they got what you need.

That said I think the one they sold me was a larsen

 

Thinking of getting the rig rat a bike. Torn between a crf/xr 50 or putting him on a 70. He has ridden a quad for 3 years and is kinda big for his age. 5. Opinions?