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Egor (my assistant) and l were discussing the need to have a small truck or a John Deere Gator to run around the mountain top campus here at Frank & Stein motor Werks. We cant justify the expense of a gator so we needed another plan. As usual we visited the junk pile for potential insperation...

I know i'm a day early, but I'll not be here for the next few days. Taking Franken buggy to the desert for the grand brats to play for the weekend.

l needed a strap wrench today and HF tools is 25 minutes away, so my inner cheapskate shouted make one. So if anyone wants heres a quick how to Start with any 2” wide piece of steel. Size does not matter in this case. Put a slot in it ( by any means available) and drill a 13/64 hole in it to...

Found some pics of the early days of stitching the bodys together. Egor my assistant took em, so here they are, without naration. There may be duplicates and a bunch are missing. Ya can’t get good help these days… .

We took the buggy out to a nice flat lot nearby for its first actual trial run. It just required a minor carb adjustment and timing reset and after that she ran great. Two kids (and 3 adults) beat on it for a solid hour with no failures. I'm pretty happy with everything as it is, so now its on...

don’t deny it, yer neighbor sent a pic!

Early on in the Franken Kart project I bought a hydraulic brake kit from one of the suppliers listed elsewhere here. The rear caliper came with a parking brake. My inner cheapskate kicked in and I figured out how to make a parking brake lever for zero dollars. My junk pile saved the day again...

Had a couple of hours to burn so l cruised the scrap pile and found inspiration! yard art? Driveway barrier? Annoyance for wife? There are so many possibilities!

This rolling scrap yard that l assembled last year is getting some paint and body panels. to refresh your memories this is the collection of scrap metal of which l speak. so l plan to put a coat of blue paint on it. Mainly to keep rust away. in the process of stripping it down and thinking...

Save yourself the torture and use the fast forward feature! I would love to see the owners manual, Chinglish at its best!

Working on this small engine. Does anyone know what the main caps should be torqued to?

I’ve always wanted to build a rat rod. As some of you already know l don’t do anything normal. The weirder the better, but it has to work. So now l’m liking this. Combination rat rod, rat buggy, rat trike! l may have to start collecting junk. I may get banned for this stupid idea!

I needed some cable clamps. I need them today, I don't have time to order online and wait. I don't have time to go to the hardware store only to find the usual plastic clamps that last a few months. I need some metal clamps, now. So like many other things its quicker to just make some and move...

So The Franken buggy has been suffering from a lack of juice. The electric starter, Mopar Ignition,a couple of gauges and future driving lights are way beyond the capacity of the on board charging coil. So after studying the problem for several weeks I decided an alternator was my best option. I...