Moonbuggy !!

NASA Moonbuggy Competition

Description, rules, course etc at:

http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/

Looks like a berkeleying blast

Great minds at GRM, how would you do it?

Gearz just did a show on this. I thought it was extremely cool.

they did it best in the early 70's, when they were doing donuts and kicking up rooster tails on the actual moon in an electric car..

carguy123 wrote: Gearz just did a show on this.

X2. Here is the beginning. Youtube cuts off the actual moon buggy contest. ??????

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QM5cWj2r8yc

Paging 93EXCivic.....93EXCivic to the white courtesy phone please.

IIRC, he built one of these moonbuggies as part of UAH's team a couple years ago.

This is the kinda stuff that piques my interest, thas just sexy dammit

this one even has a diff and inboard disc brakes

Coker now makes 36" tires and quite a few folks are building 36" wheels. That would certainly help the momentum and roll-over.

fasted58 wrote: This is the kinda stuff that piques my interest, thas just sexy dammit this one even has a diff and inboard disc brakes

This is what it looks like when things are designed by someone without a "mechanical vocabulary".

Attractive, but an order of magnitude over-complex. And look at how the inclined kingpin has been accomplished - Insanity.