Remember when we had no fear with our toys?
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Did we?And we survived/turned out ok...
these were great for launching army men.
Made a bunch of these from baby carrige wheels.
Some hollow tubing, a box of book matches, a fuse resulted in me getting a stern talking to one day.
I made it ok but stayed away from the stuff I figured would hurt me except for fire crackers, mini bikes, go-carts and on and on and on....!
Dam I had a home made mini bike a Brigs 1.5 motor bolted on a stingray with a fanbelt to the rear with a washing machine pully jury rigged to it. Man I did miles on that thing.
Then there were the Rupps! Every kid wanted.
My mini was home made too. Used galvanized 1/2" water pipe lol. Had access to a torch and was learning how to arc weld back then and really didn't know about the fumes from that stuff but heard not to breathe it. Had a 'suicide' clutch using a fan belt too. The wheels and tires came off of my wrecked go-cart. My welding wasn't too good and the bicycle neck front end didn't stay on too long lol. Luckily it messed up slowly and was able to come to a stop (no brakes either) without crashing. Did a much better job welding it back on. And the bike was much easier to 'avoid' the cops than the go-cart was!
Bet of times. Hey mom I am driving my contraption will be home for dinner!
A friend of mine aroud 16 took a KZ 1000 motor and put it on a go cart. Holy crap that did not last long.
Was on the hunt for a motorcycle engine but never found one. This was in the 60's and there wasn't many around yet....at least not in my area. And the city dump was our friend. If a parent of one of our friends were heading out to dump something, we piled into the truck! If we found something that we thought we could use, it came home and a horizontal shaft BS motor was jack pot.
Dfr360cuda
Diagnosis... Plum Crazy.
I don’t have a picture, but, back in the 70’s we got 3 bikes. We painted one each red, white and blue. Took the front wheel off of 2 and hooked all 3 together. We rode it in the Memorial Day parade thru Pittsburghs South Hills.
We also rode it down Banksville Road 120 mph.
We also rode it down Banksville Road 120 mph.
ir3333
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and we used to shoot each other in the back with BB guns as long as the victim had a coat on!
I probably shouldn't be here remembering the way we drove our muscle cars in the 60's!
I probably shouldn't be here remembering the way we drove our muscle cars in the 60's!
SLOPAR72
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No doubt. In the emergency room 24 hours after my Grandpa gave me this and right back on it again a few hours later lol..... I keep saying it's coming out of the attic one day but that's as far as the project has gotten lol...
JW
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