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Title: Soapbox racers
Post by: swainy on 30 July 2013, 12:31

Anybody built one?

Been looking the last few days into making one, decided on a wooden chassis so went this morning to pick a load of wood up.

Want it to look something along these lines, not sure how well itll turn out though

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z296/swainy20/one_knotty_32_sedan_let2y.jpg) (http://s190.photobucket.com/user/swainy20/media/one_knotty_32_sedan_let2y.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Soapbox racers
Post by: Dan n Nic on 30 July 2013, 16:34

Looks good. I saw that Red-Bull were doing the soap box race in London back at the beginning of the year and was so tempted to build one and enter.

Title: Re: Soapbox racers
Post by: swainy on 30 July 2013, 17:02

Yer it was on 14th July at ally palley.

There's a couple of local ones near me so gonna try get it entered to one of them.

Title: Re: Soapbox racers
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 30 July 2013, 18:33

always wanted to do the redbull one. but bit to far for me.

Title: Re: Soapbox racers
Post by: archie837 on 30 July 2013, 22:39

I'm pretty sure the one in the top pic is our mate OJ's he made for the derby at the hotrod hayride a couple years back.

It was on this weekend so may be why you are seeing a few more pics than normal of some?

Title: Re: Soapbox racers
Post by: swainy on 31 July 2013, 08:34

Yer it was for the hotrod hayride.

Found a few pics of it but have been searching for others.

Thing I'm struggling to work out is how to attach the front axle.

Title: Re: Soapbox racers
Post by: archie837 on 31 July 2013, 22:04

Anti roll bar mounts. The ones that bolt onto a car body and hold the roll bar in place with bushes.