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Old 06-09-2008, 08:38 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by E_Swift View Post
... I can hardly find any available for sale on the whole continent, and most have had the original drivetrain swapped out for some reason...
Man, do I hear that. I'd be tickled to find a solid VX, but it seems all the kids snap them up and immediately start hotrodding them, utterly destroying their hypermiler value (unless you'd like to incur the ginormous expense of time and money to mod it back to original specs).

What about finding a good, solid glider - a chassis that has had its more-powerful motor swapped out and then been abandoned? You could fit that with something totally off-the-wall, like a Caterpillar diesel. They make little ones. That'd be something to hear tooling down the pike.
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