My sister found a picture, from Me and her and the first locost I’ve build. Talking about really lightweight, Colin Chapman would be jealous, when hey could see this!
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Smart


Did it self centre?



Paul G

You can tell that it's pre-SVA

Did it have any brakes?

To bad, it's an Eight

Funny to see, maybe there is a Gene in the DNA which causes these Locost-disease.

For sure, I also built soap box karts as a kid.

We had a nice hill at the end of our street where I grew up, and all the local kids built soap box karts - a few planks of wood, 4 pram wheels and a bit of rope for steering. For brakes we just steered into some long grass/ bushes at the bottom of the hill.

One kid, whose father was in the motor trade, built a HUGE kart, with car wheels, using two car rear axles. The front one with the diff flange upmost, nailed to the main beam to give the steering, still controlled by a rope tied to the hubs. It went like hell down the hill, but needed every kid in the street to push it back up

Cheers

Fred W B

[Edited on 4/1/09 by Fred W B]