Golf Carts

I have a lead on a gas powered golf car (and electric 3 wheel one too )

It would be fun to lift one a bit or just tinker with it or whatever.

I have no need for one. Dont live anywhere close to where i can use it a lot. My yard is not even that big.

Why do i still want one so bad? How do i justify buying one? Should i even buy it?

I saw this one near Hawi on the Big Island a few years ago

The Soaring club I belong to has two Carts, one four stroke and one two stroke. The way they work is you step on the gas and that spins over a car-like starter motor. That motor gets the cart moving until the gas engine kicks in, then it becomes a generator to charge the battery.

The four stroke doesn't have the top end of the two stroke, but the two stroke needs more speed before the gas engine lights off. For our purposes (towing gliders) the speed of the tow is lower than the speed required to light off the engine so you run on battery all the time.

Battery powered carts? Price a deep cycle battery and multiply that by 4 or 10 depending on the cart.

Scooters are more entertaining......

YMMV, Dan

zip tie takes care of any governor

just think about where its going to sit whenever you wont use it...which sounds like it will be most of the time. Can you sacrifice that space?

My aunt and uncle have one with a lift kit, knobby tires, and stereo. They use it to run around their campground. Somebody else at the same campground has an electric one and bought a DOT kit for it and can drive into town as a legally registered electric vehicle. It does a little over 25 mph, IIRC.

I want one to fit in the Mongo belly, would be great for Mrs Aussie at track

In reply to 914Driver:

I assume you're towing them to and from the runway, not for liftoff...

In some towns in South Carolina, they can be registered and used on the road. I refer to this as "road lice" since they're slow, erratic and usually casually driven, at best.

Ohio only has a few communities where golf carts are legal to be plated on the road and two of them are islands. Before I went through the effort of getting plates on a golf cart I would get plates (as a golf cart) for one of these.

N Sperlo wrote: In reply to 914Driver: I assume you're towing them to and from the runway, not for liftoff...

Correct.

I had the same urge. I bought one to drive around the neighborhood. After a while, I found myself either using a bicycle or my car for pretty much everything I had originally intended to use the golf cart for. I sold it. The kids miss riding to the neighborhood pool in it, but that is about it.

jrw1621 wrote: Ohio only has a few communities where golf carts are legal to be plated on the road and two of them are islands. Before I went through the effort of getting plates on a golf cart I would get plates (as a golf cart) for one of these.

I would love me a kei truck

what i hear is that unless you live in a community where you can use em a ton or have a need for it its just a giant space consuming toy....

Golf cart + Polaris 440cc 2-stroke snowmobile engine = good times

can you autox a golf cart in any class?? does any class allow a possibility for one to run?

CarKid1989 wrote: Why do i still want one so bad?

Because...

CarKid1989 wrote: How do i justify buying one?

The ends justifies the means...

CarKid1989 wrote: Should i even buy it?

This is a rhetorical question...

They don't seem particularly practical or fun. I mean, jumping them off of or into stuff Jackass-style may be entertaining, but you can only destroy it once.

Maybe get a buddy to buy one and make a backyard rallycross course? Or stage rally, if you live near the woods?

On the street, around real cars piloted by inattentive morons who will give you even less respect if you're in a golf cart? No thanks.

CarKid1989 wrote: can you autox a golf cart in any class?? does any class allow a possibility for one to run?

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