Waffling On Base Price. Can They Make $6,800?

[Sethodine]

Good luck going through customs, and getting it licensed; even though it looks old, it's new.
Can you imagine what it would look like with all of the equipment needed to make it street legal?
The 5mph bumpers might stand out just a little

It's basically a fancy looking golf cart designed for the tourism market. They make them in 6 and 8 person seats as well, plus models with doors etc. So they would be "off-road vehicles", especially considering the 18mph top speed.

Importation of an off-road vehicle.

If the vehicle was not primarily manufactured for use on public streets, roads, and highways, it would not qualify as a "motor vehicle" that must comply with all applicable FMVSS, and bear a label certifying such compliance that is permanently affixed by its original manufacturer to be lawfully imported into the U.S. A vehicle that is not primarily manufactured for on-road use can be imported under Box 8 on the HS-7 Declaration form that is to be given to Customs at the time of entry. Such a vehicle is not subject to NHTSA’s jurisdiction, but may be subject to the jurisdiction of the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC).

 

[ross]

Cheap cars have been done...
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and people got what they paid for...

Last year for covered headlights for VW beetles was 1966.

 

[NSTG8R]

WOW! This thread went off the tracks!

Speaking of tracks. Check out the tracks this thing makes. Watching it I'm surprised there's not some 'modernized' form of it in use today. Works beautifully!

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...B61043443AD31BC20E35B61043443AD31B&FORM=VIRE3

 

[bowers baldwin]

WOW! This thread went off the tracks!

Speaking of tracks. Check out the tracks this thing makes. Watching it I'm surprised there's not some 'modernized' form of it in use today. Works beautifully!

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...B61043443AD31BC20E35B61043443AD31B&FORM=VIRE3

There is.

 

[NSTG8R]

There is.

I'll be d*mned! Sure enough!

That gives me an idea. We have HUGE mud runs out here twice a year, just down the road. I've got a '75 Porsche 914 that'll never be on the pavement again due to major structural rust...But it would be one wicked little mud runner with a framed set-up like that under it...Hmmmm.

 

[bowers baldwin]

I'll be d*mned! Sure enough!

That gives me an idea. We have HUGE mud runs out here twice a year, just down the road. I've got a '75 Porsche 914 that'll never be on the pavement again due to major structural rust...But it would be one wicked little mud runner with a framed set-up like that under it...Hmmmm.

Home made ver.

 

[NSTG8R]

Home made ver.

Major design flaws...but moderately functional. I had 2' dia. spiral culvert pipe in mind. Lighter and more surface area. I know what I'll be eyeballing the next time I'm a the farm supply center.

 

[Sethodine]

There is.

I do love me some Archimedes screw vehicles. The Russians made some pretty cool ones as well. I always thought the design would make for a good beach landing craft or shore-to-shore ferry.

 

[bowers baldwin]

I do love me some Archimedes screw vehicles. The Russians made some pretty cool ones as well. I always thought the design would make for a good beach landing craft or shore-to-shore ferry.

I this speed is really the limiting factor with these or they would be way more common, that being said if your stuck in a swam then slow is still better than stop.

 

[Sethodine]

I this speed is really the limiting factor with these or they would be way more common, that being said if your stuck in a swam then slow is still better than stop.