Berkeley

What'd you think it was? lol!

Stolen from the Vortex: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7239202-something-ive-never-seen-or-heard-of-before-berkeley-content

Doesn't surprise me that no one on the Vortex knows how to Berkley.

Vortex is full of berkeleytards

Oh Freedo, how you've made it around the internet.

One of those was driving around at the Good Guys in Columbus. People stopped and stared...

Given the decayed state of the boards on the ground, I think somebody should send in an etymology team from a local university before they start working on that car.

That is sweet. I like it. Nothing like a full sized road legal car under 1000 lb with me in it.

Didn't GRM (grassrootsmotorsports) have a Berkely as a project some time ago.

Berzerkley. It was cool.

Ya know, it might just be the beer talkin', but I bet one of those things with a monster crotch rocket motor in it instead of that little English thing... That would be awesome.

In reply to Dr. Hess:

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Dr. Hess wrote: Ya know, it might just be the beer talkin', but I bet one of those things with a monster crotch rocket motor in it instead of that little English thing... That would be awesome.

Knurled wrote:

Dr. Hess wrote: Ya know, it might just be the beer talkin', but I bet one of those things with a monster crotch rocket motor in it instead of that little English thing... That would be awesome.

Sigh...that berzerkly was one of the best terrible ideas ever.

Actually......Isn't this the perfect application for this:

Seems like a perfect fit.

Appleseed wrote:

Sigh. This (minus powertrain) is still perched on my back porch. One of these days I'll stuff a bike motor in the back...

Well, I still have a shaft drive bike motor available for anyone who wants to do it.....

And with that post I became a SuperDork!! Where is my GRM acro-speak decoder ring?

Curmudgeon wrote:

Appleseed wrote:

Sigh. This (minus powertrain) is still perched on my back porch. One of these days I'll stuff a bike motor in the back...

I know that the problem it had was that it was tipsy, what size wheels did it take? I know you can get Federal 595 in 13's (I think 205 width at that), so I wonder if it would be more reasonable with less grip.

Lets face it, with a bike motor its AM for autocross and hopeless, so lower grip for safer and more fun?

hmmm

Is the body still with it?

In reply to Curmudgeon:

I thought that project went way beyond what a car keeping to that size could have handled.

Then again, the Berkeley is a body that more than one driver uses out on the Salt.

The guy who put in a simple 400cc air cooled motor had a good idea. Similar to the Honda S600 with a period upgrade.

In reply to alfadriver:

I would really like to see some basic math done on that chassis. Center of Gravity, roll center, roll axis, camber curves, etc... The suspension is just odd and there is so much heavy crap up high for such a narrow car. It would be nice to know if there are some basic design flaws that could be fixed to allow a similar build that wouldn't tip over.

That car begged for super long suspension arms. Turn her into an open wheeled terror.

i really wish the original build was still up on the grm project cars section, same with the old LeGrand...

Slyp_Dawg wrote: i really wish the original build was still up on the grm project cars section, same with the old LeGrand...

LeGrand:

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/1976-legrand-mk-18/

Berkley:

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/1959-berkeley-sports/