built a "locost" type vehicle off of a Corvette C5 or C6 chassis?
Take one of these:
Sprinkle on a larger version of this:
and get this?
built a "locost" type vehicle off of a Corvette C5 or C6 chassis?
Take one of these:
Sprinkle on a larger version of this:
and get this?
Transaxle might make the packaging interesting, but I have thought of it in the past when seeing a totalled Vette.
Someone on here has something very much like this, maybe you can find it in Reader's Rides...
Super locost light weight version: mount a side car so it's hanging on the torque tube, call it a day.
Found it! There's no reader's rides entry for it but you can see it here, belongs to jmc14:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/who-wants-to-see-their-car-in-the-magazine/44935/page1/
on the Locost USA forum there is someone that did that but without the torque tube, using an adapter to connect the transaxel to the motor to make a V8 mid-engined Locost, that one was automatic though.
Wow!
dculberson wrote: Super locost light weight version: mount a side car so it's hanging on the torque tube, call it a day.
Like That...
That was the original idea for our Lotus build. Drop Lotus body over the Vette chassis. Wheelbase and track are the same... Instant 1600lb rocket.
stafford1500 wrote:
Oh hell yes! One pod for the driver, the other for the fuel, batteries etc to balance it out, squeeze in a radiator somewhere and cackle like a supervillain forever 
stafford1500 wrote:dculberson wrote: Super locost light weight version: mount a side car so it's hanging on the torque tube, call it a day.
Hmmmm, is that an old Offy???
Only concern I would have is that the cast aluminum subframes on a Corvette are huge and ugly. I suppose you could paint or powdercoat them though.
oldeskewltoy wrote:stafford1500 wrote:Hmmmm, is that an old Offy???dculberson wrote: Super locost light weight version: mount a side car so it's hanging on the torque tube, call it a day.
Supposedly yes. If I identified the car correctly, it's the "Hurst Floor Shifter Special" built by Smokey Yunick.
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