The Sandpiper

man that thing looks awesome who did your cage over your head that is to cool

Thanks.......

All the frame work and the entire cage my brother and I built........
His buggy is the 63 buggy budget build.........
You can check it out also.........

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Nice work. That looks friggin sweet. do you think you can build me a cage like that for my buggy? that looks killer :Rockit:

One thing tho. those steering shafts seem to be at such an extreme angle. or is that just a funny angle of the pic?

Bugman114 wrote:
One thing tho. those steering shafts seem to be at such an extreme angle. or is that just a funny angle of the pic?

X2 I don't see how that can work without binding.

In that pic it was binding. Since then he had the R&P mount cut down to get better angles on the U joints and get it centered up on the beam.

Thanks Mike.......
In that picture everything was just a mock up to see how everything would fit.......
Since then there have been a couple of changes made to get everything to work correctly......
Except for the front beams and rear torsion housing everything was made in our shop......
As far as building you a cage...we can do it-but we need to know what you want and get a few measurement
to get things to fit right.......
We'll get together through PM's if you want and discuss it if you like.........

Why does Johnny look lost.

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I think he looks lost because it looks as if the buggy doesn't know which way it wants to go

Which way did he go......Which way did he go.......

Got this put together.......

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To fill in this hole under the dash.......

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Made up some brackets to hold the sides in place until I can get the sides glassed back together.........



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Well these big gaps have been filled in......
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And this peice has been installed.....
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Just a couple more days and at least the body will be ready for primer.......
I've got a little more glassing to do and a few small places to finish up......
I'm keeping my fingers crossed to have it done and in primer by Sunday.......

Finally got it primed.
Still hopeing to get it painted in a couple weeks.

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The new peice to close up the front came out looking good.....

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Over the last couple weeks we've gotten pretty much all the welding done on the frame......
(except for building the rear engine cage for it)
Got a place to mount the battery...
Got a frame work for mounting the gas tank....
Had to remove some things and relocate others.....

And a few days ago I (finally) got the frame painted.
Hopefully the body will be painted by the end of next week....

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nice work

thanks

Is that primer or the silver base coat? Hard to tell in the pic, but still looks very nice. Can't wait to see it tomorrow.

No primer that's the color the frame will be.
Nice shiny silver.

Why is everything you do simply amazing? . I wish i could weld good enough to do half of the stuff you do . I'm almost sad to have traded my dune buggy away, just so i could have had you make a cage for it, hahaha

I'm not the welder that would be joe(my brother)...
I just come up with ideas and he has to make it.....

Johnny wrote:I'm not the welder that would be joe(my brother)...
I just come up with ideas and he has to make it.....

Ahh. Still aawsome tho. So yall are like a tag team kinda deal then. Your the slick suit wearing smart guy who comes up with all the ideas, and joe is the big hairy bouncer looking dude who does all the hard work, gotcha ................................. :Laughing: hahaha, just kidding.

Bugman114 wrote:

Johnny wrote:I'm not the welder that would be joe(my brother)...
I just come up with ideas and he has to make it.....

Ahh. Still aawsome tho. So yall are like a tag team kinda deal then. Your the slick suit wearing smart guy

:Laughing: :Laughing: :Laughing: That's the first time I've heard Johnny described like that.

Well, when you've never seen the people in question, or forgot what they look like, its easy to make a mental picture of the guys, :Laughing: . He knows i'm just yankin his chain :Rockit: , lol.

[quote="Bugman114"] it's easy to make a mental picture of the guys, :Laughing: .


Or did you mean...its easy to make a picture of the MENTAL guys

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Someone should rename this topic "the roast of johnny and joe"

Someone please pass the gravy..........