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....perhaps an interesting project for the home shop:

http://www.drivebuv.org/b_u_v.htm

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:02:55 GMT, (Speechless)
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...perhaps an interesting project for the home shop:

http://www.drivebuv.org/b_u_v.htm

A home built Cushman Truckster!

-Carl
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...perhaps an interesting project for the home shop:
http://www.drivebuv.org/b_u_v.htm


Not really a new idea. The Chinese have been making them
for decades. Sort of a combination of a diesel Planet Junior
and a farm cart:
http://www.livingtravel.com/asia/chi...hengdu0105.JPG
You can haul an amazing amount of stuff in a simple cart
like that, if you don't have to go far or fast...

Salvaging pickup truck beds and frames is old, too. Heck,
even I've done it:
http://home.comcast.net/~glyford/trailer/trailer.htm
Grab a two-wheel tractor and change out the hitch and you're
there. (Though personally, I'd probably use a 4x8 utility trailer
for such a project, the pickup bed one I made is a little heavy).

--Glenn Lyford

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On 22 Mar 2006 14:32:09 -0800, wrote:

...perhaps an interesting project for the home shop:
http://www.drivebuv.org/b_u_v.htm

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Salvaging pickup truck beds and frames is old, too. Heck,
even I've done it:
http://home.comcast.net/~glyford/trailer/trailer.htm


Some excellent illustrations on how to modify the front end of the
truck frame. Thanks for posting the URL.

I have a 15-year-old nephew who received a buzz box welder from Santa
this past Christmas and doesn't know what to do with it but, he likes
cars and anything else with wheels on it. His father and I have some
ideas about what the kid is going to be doing this summer. Heh, heh,
heh...he will be referring to your web page.


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Karl Knows.

Between the legs - a starting pedal. Flight line gear box in the back water tight box.

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Carl Byrns wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:02:55 GMT, (Speechless)
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...perhaps an interesting project for the home shop:

http://www.drivebuv.org/b_u_v.htm


A home built Cushman Truckster!

-Carl


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