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flotsam

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4. Money is not the thing...
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 05:51 PM
Sep 2019

This model has an entirely new driveline doing away with the old transaxle to the point that the old engine compartment is used as a second trunk...You could feasibly chop the routine 10-14 inches out of the chassis, making it a 2 seater with the related turning abilities of the originals. Further though with the new driveline even more weight and inches (and most importantly weight) could be removed at the rear. Even with no "performance modifications" you would have 80 Bhp which is double that of the first buggies. And I wonder what a good designer/fabricator could do for a fresh buggy body reimagined with much less rear overhang to protect the now non-existent IC motor? I just hope it happens and would love to see the outcome. And oh yeah-depending on location some batteries might be displaced while chopping the chassis-but buggies traditionally have no trunk but did carry the fuel tank in the front trunk-and there many, perhaps even extra, batteries could reside. Now if I hit the mega-millions lottery I would have the first one.

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