New rat rod project!!!

Furyous

For those that have followed my Cougar Scooter project, you'll appreciate this. After helping work on my cart, some of my friends have been bitten by the bug.

My buddy Alex found a piece of crap ezgo marathon for $60 on Craigslist, and that's where we start.
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Obviously, very rough and rusty but all we wanted were the main components.
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Furyous

We went through some design ideas, first thinking that a woody would be cool. This concept involved putting a golf cart rear in reverse over the front heels and building a wooden rear.
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Then Alex found a 1940's Oliver tractor grill and hood for cheap on eBay, so the design centered around that.
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In the rear are lawn mower seats with belts for the kids.

Tear down began. This metal hoop used as a holding rail for the rear facing seats was to be reused as a front suspension mount.
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Next the idea was to take the front suspension and lengthen it using leaf springs from an f150.
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The hoop was centered on the frame and mounted to the cart.
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We then welded gussets for strength.
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Here's a view of the tractor grill we planned to use. We also found Harley Davidson headlights and blinkers to use at a yard sale.
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Everything was sandblasted and painted satin black.
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The tires are for a trailer, found at a swap meet.
The grille and lights are just resting there to see how it would look.

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Furyous

A few more of how it looked at this point. I'm sad that I didn't get the pics of the Mercedes struts that we got for free that mounted perfectly for stability.
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Now, the story changes. Alex bought a running and driving Western, so he put all of his time effort, and money into that. His wife started to pressure him into getting rid of the rat rod, but he didn't want to give it to just anyone. The cart sat for a year and eventually his wife wanted to convert the garage into an office. The cart had to go.

Enter our friend TJ. TJ is a welder by trade and a heck of a hot rodder. He drives a dodge ram quad cab that he lifted by himself in his driveway, and his last cart project turned out awesome. Here is the "Green Goblin" next to the "Cougar Scooter".
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TJ lowered it, painted it, added a train horn, 650 amp alltrax, plum quick motor, and a 6:1 rear. It topped out at 38 with both of us in it at 42v.
Alex bequeathed the rat rod to TJ as he sold his old cart and needed a project.


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Furyous

Once TJ got a hold of it, it went into overdrive. He took out the leaf springs and struts in favor of fabricating a four link. The idea is that he wants to use airbags to raise and lower it, with flint blocks underneath to spark when he drops it to the ground.
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You can see the location of the pan hard bar to keep things aligned. Originally he was going to go with an ATV gas motor, but since found an electric cart for cheap with all the goodies- forward/reverse switch, solenoid, controller, motor, good brakes, etc.

He has since cut the cart in half to lengthen the body so that the driver can sit low. It is quite possible a roof will go on. Will have to do another drawing! More to come...

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Furyous

Just got a new pic last night... Can't wait to check on progress in person. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1410198750.581402.jpg

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rib33024

Cool build

93yellowclubcar

Very neat build! Are you the artist? Those drawings are top notch!!

Furyous

I am! Got a degree in art years ago. Nice to be able to use it now and then!