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Re: Car inspired by "Muscle Cars" of the 60's and 70's
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Date: 
Sun, 5 Mar 2000 18:18:49 GMT
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Bram:

Is that a challenge to motorize an even smaller car? :)

If you take it that way. - The smallest I have _attempted_
to motorise was something of about the same size as these
sports cars:

   http://hugin.ldraw.org/LEGO/Biler/Min_sportsvogn/
   http://hugin.ldraw.org/LEGO/Biler/Mortens_sportsvogn-1995/

It's true that it would take some effort to cram a battery
box in there, but I just hook up the wires to an RCX and
plug the RCX into the wall with an adapter I found in our
house :)

I haven't gotten as far as trying to get batteries into my
cars either.

Play well,

Jacob

PS: The real challenge is of course [1] to motorise a
    City X'er [2].

1) I still have a note to remind me how to spell it. ;-)
2) <URL: http://hugin.ldraw.org/CityXers/ >

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  Re: Car inspired by "Muscle Cars" of the 60's and 70's
 
(...) I think it helps a lot if you build around the motor instead of trying to squeeze a motor inside an existing body. For my car, I first built the front bumper and lights, and then built the chassis of the car. I built the body on top of the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.modelteam)

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(...) Originally, I wasn't going to make the car very functional. However, I noticed that I had plenty of room under the front hood to add some steering. I also realized that the way the cars in the Ultimate LEGO Book are built, the wheels probably (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.modelteam)

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