Re: Hot Wheels 2 - Pine's new Buggy build thread
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:45 pm
Thursday, 9 December 2010 - FIRST TEST DRIVE!!
This afternoon was the biggest highlight of the HW2 project so far - I took it for it's first test drive
Please don't get me wrong - the buggy is still VERY FAR from being finished (yet another target date - Dec '10 holidays - not made 
), but I actually drove it for the first time today for a few kilometers (and about 2 plastic Coke bottles of petrol 
) here in Kensington South, Johannesburg. For the first time HW2 has left the garage under its own power, and it was quite an adventure, I must add, trying to avoid the MetroCops with a vehicle with no identification plates or disc, no windscreen, super smooth rear tyres (temporay, btw), no wipers, no functioning lights, dodgy brakes and backfiring like the machine guns of a Mitsubishi Zero during the Pearl Harbour attack (OK, only till I sorted the timing out 
) Almost lost the front wheel (forgot to fasten the wheel nuts 
) but I guess that happens to all of us some time or other...
I am quite impressed with the buggy's pullaway, accomplished by the two SP carbs (thanks Vuyo ) but the brakes are still not right, might even have to change the (Golf) master cylinder.
Still have to have the roll cage powder coated, windscreen fitted, seats & rails sorted out, rear wheels painted, BF Goodrich's fitted, wiper motor sorted out, complete the wiring.... actually it is still a loooooong list
The chroming of the tail light housings and Ghia license plate cover also has to wait for a while.
Took these pics at Rhodes Park, got back home seconds before it started raining. Thanks once again to all for their support so far, if all goes well, the buggy will be at KKK 2011!
The only functional light at the moment - the reverse light!
This afternoon was the biggest highlight of the HW2 project so far - I took it for it's first test drive
Please don't get me wrong - the buggy is still VERY FAR from being finished (yet another target date - Dec '10 holidays - not made ), but I actually drove it for the first time today for a few kilometers (and about 2 plastic Coke bottles of petrol ) here in Kensington South, Johannesburg. For the first time HW2 has left the garage under its own power, and it was quite an adventure, I must add, trying to avoid the MetroCops with a vehicle with no identification plates or disc, no windscreen, super smooth rear tyres (temporay, btw), no wipers, no functioning lights, dodgy brakes and backfiring like the machine guns of a Mitsubishi Zero during the Pearl Harbour attack (OK, only till I sorted the timing out ) Almost lost the front wheel (forgot to fasten the wheel nuts ) but I guess that happens to all of us some time or other... I am quite impressed with the buggy's pullaway, accomplished by the two SP carbs (thanks Vuyo
) but the brakes are still not right, might even have to change the (Golf) master cylinder. Still have to have the roll cage powder coated, windscreen fitted, seats & rails sorted out, rear wheels painted, BF Goodrich's fitted, wiper motor sorted out, complete the wiring.... actually it is still a loooooong list
The chroming of the tail light housings and Ghia license plate cover also has to wait for a while.Took these pics at Rhodes Park, got back home seconds before it started raining. Thanks once again to all for their support so far, if all goes well, the buggy will be at KKK 2011!
The only functional light at the moment - the reverse light!
that buggy looks the part love the concept 