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The Story I designed, built and sold golf cars, Estate cars and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) for years. This is how I did it. (Photos below are a mixture of all the cars I produced.) |
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| When
you make golf cars
for a living, you get to go some pretty cool places and meet fantastic people. This is me at Boyd Coddington's Garage. |
Some perks to the job, include test driving other electric cars, like this flat car built to support cameras for the movie industry. | |
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| To build a golf car, you gotta have a concept and a plan. Then you get to the dirtywork of sculpting a full sized prototype in wood, fiberglass and bondo. Its long hours and hot dirty work. | ||
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| Carve in the contours, | Do some fine finishing, | This is a fullsize body with flashing ready to build a mould. |
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| Once
you've built the body and mould, you start poppin out parts.
Here are
some examples, (right) my LS Sports Truck front end, (center) a special
request one
piece race car body and (left) a full body of the boydster. This is just the beginning, there is still a lot to do! |
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| Next
comes the chassis. I often use a Club Car chassis (left),
but on
occation the chassis may need to be built like the one for the race car
(center) or this blue one built special for my LS
Sports
Truck (for Falkon Tires and the Sema Show). (Check out "The Bling" and "The Glamor" pages for more pics on this special build.) |
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| Now its time
for all the finishing touches and jewelry. Lights, dash... |
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| batteries, | seats, | car roof supports... |
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| and install roof. | Next install the hood emblem. | The car's complete and ready for a ride! |
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| Sometimes
cars need to be
modified or upgraded, and sometimes we're asked to do 'one offs' or experiemental cars. (Three bodies undergoing modifications) |
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| Here my Escalade was modified to fit a new chassis. A beefier look! | Front view of modifications. | Here the car is primed and ready for the finish coat. |
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| Experimental Escalade complete! | Now its time for the beauty shots... | Advertise in a prominant magazine, |
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| Take orders
and ship! By truck, car carrier or air freight. |
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