From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 21:59:21 PST
At 9:21 PM -0800 12/1/03, Paul A. Thomas wrote:
>I'll buy tighter turning radius, and the coolness of driving a one off.
>but less drag? better angles? Missing 3-4 feet
>will change little when lining up a truck for
>parking.
A shorter wheel base makes it something easier to drive.
>I guess what really bothers me is that a Deuce
>is USEFUL. You can carry a pickup in it, or
>boxes of goods, or a bunch of people dressed up
>for a celebration. The vehicle in this thread
>can't. It can carry a bed. If you put a bed of
>some sort in it then that bed can carry a
>pickup, or boxed goods, or.....
Given the state that some of those Deuces come in
from DRMO/GL, building one of these or 5 from the
frames and other bits isn't such an odd thing,
nor does it really
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