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July 13, 2008 11:38 p.m. P71 Reader

With gas so expensive these things got CHEAP! It's a $50K+ truck and I paid thirty for it! Silver, big tires, black interior (seems cheap IMO).

. . .

It's a Power Wheels!!! Saw it at a garage sale and just HAD to get it! The stock battery is toast, but it's a twin-engine 12V model. Paid $30 (they were asking $50) and drug it home in the trunk of the cop car (just ever so slightly too big to get all the way in there and close the lid...).

I'm thinking an electric scooter battery to get it going again and then see what I can do for bigger motors

Any ideas?
July 14, 2008 2:42 a.m. 2.0dohc New Reader

P71 wrote:

Any ideas?

odly enough, I do have a few ideas, most coming from this site
July 14, 2008 6:19 a.m. ignorant SuperDork

modified power wheels.. c00L
July 14, 2008 7:20 a.m. GregTivo New Reader

$30, sounds about right...oh, you bought a power wheels version....
July 14, 2008 7:50 a.m. P71 Reader

They say no car batteries because of kid safety. Since only adults will be driving the H2, does that mean I'm OK?
July 14, 2008 8:21 a.m. suprf1y New Reader

I put a car battery in my kids powerwheels jeep, and it worked fine. I thought it might be hard on it, but it lasted through 2 kids, and 12yrs of hardcore hauling. The wiring burned up pretty early, so I used a starter solenoid, and either pushbutton, or light switch. Stock batteries would last about 1 hr. The car battery would last all day.
July 14, 2008 8:41 a.m. P71 Reader

SWEET! Any specifics for me?
July 14, 2008 9:01 a.m. John Brown SuperDork

Bolt in largest battery that fits... giggle like a Mofo. ;)
July 14, 2008 8:44 p.m. P71 Reader

Hehehe... Time to break out the sawzall and the Optima from the P71...
July 14, 2008 9:20 p.m. wyldpny New Reader

I would assume it's for one of your kids though, right?
July 14, 2008 10:23 p.m. Josh Reader

I was driving home from the beer store the other day, and I had to drive around a shirtless dude (20s, must have been 6'2") piloting a purple Power Wheels Barbie Pontiac Solstice right down the middle of the wrong side of the road. I think maybe he'd been to the same store earlier that day. It would have made my day if he had started doing donuts in it though :).
July 14, 2008 11:01 p.m. P71 Reader

I don't have any kids. This is just for my girlfriend to terrorize the neighborhood with. I'll be picking up a go-kart sooner or later for myself.
July 14, 2008 11:50 p.m. atlantamx3 Dork

Your girlfriend is either Asian or 10.

LOL
July 15, 2008 12:10 a.m. SkinnyG New Reader

You need to use a starter motor - trust me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2fWkfiBLlU
July 15, 2008 12:29 a.m. P71 Reader

Close, she's Vegan.
July 15, 2008 2:33 a.m. 2.0dohc New Reader

just make sure to use a sealed battery ie not a vented lead acid one. acid on skin bad
July 15, 2008 12:24 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

If I could pick up Power Wheels vehicles for $30 or even $50, I'd have the world's most badass electric RC car by now
July 15, 2008 5:42 p.m. Tommy Suddard

Kart frame, pull the body off and on like a funny car, Yamaha KT-100 kart engine.
July 15, 2008 9:41 p.m. Mental SuperDork

2.0dohc wrote:

P71 wrote:

Any ideas?

odly enough, I do have a few ideas, most coming from this site

Does anyone remeber the South Park when Cartman discovered such a thing as Home Schooling. He began to sing about what a wonderful thing it was.

My wife and I are about halfway through the adoption clearence process and looking over that site, I now know Eric was feeling....
July 16, 2008 6:31 a.m. fastEddie Dork

Kids are great excuses sometimes!

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