On 07/08/2014 10:09 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
It was our winter
plow vehicle, and was reasonably safe to drive with a snow plow mounted
that you could drop and use as an anchor when you needed to stop.
Back in high school, I had a friend who built a go cart. I don't recall
all of the details but basically it had a chain saw engine and rack and
pinion steering that had been scavenged from some source.
There was a junior high school just up the hill from his home and the
yard was paved all of the way around the school so they would go up
there and take turns roaring around the school and timing the runs to
see who was the fastest.
They had not managed to scavenge anything that would serve as brakes so ...
They tied a boat anchor onto a length of rope and would throw that out
and hope it caught on something sturdy enough to bring the vehicle to a
stop.
I never got the chance to try it out as I lived out of town and had to
climb onto my school bus to head home after school but I did enjoy the
stories about it all.
Randy
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