offroad buggy

baloo · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:25 am Post subject: offroad buggy

it was far too hot to do too much yesterday so we dug out the cam corda and played around with Marks rock crawler, apart from burning the top of my head in the blazing sun it was a nice way to waste a saturday morning, lol

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and one from 3 or 4 months ago

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cheers Andy

Diesel Destroyer · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

The videos dont do it justice..

Some of those sections are hard to climb/ walk.. let alone drive over..

Cheers again for a fab day...

And sorry about rolling the pilot Embarassed

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John yota · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject:

Where's that video of the pilot getting rolled??? Laughing

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Seriously though, that buggy of *EDIT* *Mark's* is awesome! It made that look very easy! I wish I had the skills to build stuff like that!

Thanks for the vids

Cheers, John

baloo · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:48 am Post subject:

no worries about rolling the pilot Alan that's what roll cages are for Laughing

besides if you hadent told me l wouldent have know as l dident see it

must point out that it's Marks buggy ( blue dragon ) he designed and biult it l just end up videoing it as l cant physically get in it as its so small, anyone bigger than small to average just wont fit in it as its made as small as possible

however to over come this Marks latest buggy is 6" wider and 4" longer biult to dimensions that will allow me to have a go in it Cool

it's also half the wieght and twice the horse power too, should break cover later this year

and as Alan says the vids never do justice to how difficult the terrain is, some of the vertical steps are nearly as high as the tyres and it still climbs up them, what l need to do is get together a collection of offroaders such as a landrover , a toyota a suzuki sj etc etc and have a saturday morning testing all the motors together

Andy

Diesel Destroyer · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject:

The thinwith Marks crawler is its in a different leauge all together..

Personally I think any Suzuki/ Landy/ Yota would struggle to follow it.. even using winches..

Mark has proved (to me at least) that light weight is the future..

The tyres aint huge (31") and it hasnt got a huge V8.. But it can go anywhere..

Me want too!!

I just feel really lucky to have had a go in it

gawxo · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:36 pm Post subject:

Hi , Andy and crew , will you be at my track test with the toys?? JP.

cornish redneck · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:31 am Post subject:

that is seriously impressive!!
take my hat off to mark (blue dragon), the design and construction is superb, just wish i had the means to build something like that. Applause