Also another one I just found locally for sale. I decided to go with a buggy I have been helping make for some time now. What about the legality of riding a minibike or gokart in cities, towns and residential areas? Is that also against the law?Įdit Thank you for all the help. But a premade buggy with everything from windshield wiper to defrost and plenty more safety features as a 'toy' and not for road use. So I am wondering how they can classify that in NY as legal. Just a metal frame with some seats and engine. But those are just like 1/100th original VW. I only ask because I see plenty of dune buggies for sale and quoted 'street legal 63 VW buggy'. So if I cannot drive the buggy to my destinations I will ultimately have to decide against it. But I would have no way to tow something like that. In my searches I could not find the legal stance of something like this being registered and insured for road use in NY. I recently planned to purchase a premade sand rail buggy. Will my husband divorce me if I dehydrate tomatoes in his F-150 truck?ĭennis Collins, a Highway Accident Investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board The wonderful and epic tale of Yoshi the Yarisįorget the trunk monkey, check out trash pandas. Trying to identify a car? Try /r/whatisthiscar, /r/namethatcar, or /r/rbi.įor information on content removal, user warnings, and bans, please see the Chain of Action page. Create a text post that includes the link and your thoughts on the subject matter.ħ: Users will need to participate in threads created by others in /r/cars before being able to make their own threads. -Basics of swapping engines/layouts/transmissions/bodiesĢ: All car purchase questions must go in the weekly car choosing sticky.ģ: Direct image and video links are not allowed.

One Million subscribers! WooHoo! Autos Network Subreddit List Follow us > /r/Cars Wiki However, we encourage you to explore other online platforms. We try to be a helpful discussion-driven community while maintaining high-quality discourse and topical content. We're Reddit's central hub for vehicle-related discussion, industry news, reviews, projects, DIY guides, advice, stories, and more. The Stark made a bit of a splash back around 2013, when Smisek seems to have finished the first one, with plans to sell these as kits by 2014, plans that don’t seem to have actually come to fruition./r/Cars is the largest automotive enthusiast community on the Internet. The packaging is clever in a practical way, too: there’s storage up front, under the hood, and there also appears to be a rear compartment over the transaxle, as well as what looks like an actually useable back seat – something not common at all in most fiberglass dune buggy kits. The very open and flared wheelarches evoke classic fiberglass dune buggy shapes, the door hand’s hemispherical indentation somehow reads very Volkswagen, the grille-less front end with the vaguely U-shaped indentation ever so slightly suggests a Baja Beetle’s blunt nose and hoodline, and yet the whole shape reads more pickup truck-like. It feels modern, but has certain cues that still have a bit of old-school dune buggy/VW-ness, all without being even remotely retro. The final design is very clever and sleek, I think.

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