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Category Archives: EV Midget Build
Midget Love Week: NTC Midget Appears In Car Kulture Deluxe Magazine
Ok, I promise, this will be the last midget post for at least a week or two. In August of 2012, a group of friends and I attended Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats. That group had hooked up … Continue reading
NTC Midget Wins Hooniverse Car Of The Year!
That’s right folks, the NTC midget has been awarded the most prestigious award in the automotive world. Thanks to everyone out there who helped and/or followed along. (Note: No thanks to the guy at Peach Days who asked why I … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken dinner, HCOTY, Midget love, Winner winner
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Midget Update: LeMons Prep
This post originally appeared here, at Hooniverse.com. I would like to announce that I have made the questionable decision to accept the poorly thought out invitation from the Killer Zombees Racing Team to join them at 24 hours of Lemons … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 Hours of LeMons, Horny Midget, Midget Racing, Thunderhill
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EV Midget Build – Part 8: Finishing Touches and Adventures
35 days had gone by since I decided to do this build. With a lot of help from my friend Sam and my dad, this thing was up and running in time to take it to the Wells Fun Run … Continue reading
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EV Midget Build – Part 7: Wiring, Body, and Test drive!
This crazy idea of mine was about to come to life. The midget only needed wiring to be fully functional car. (Car? Toy? I don’t know, or care.) So, off we set, plying our electrical skills. Click it for more … Continue reading
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EV Midget Build – Part 6: Odds and Ends
The next item on the to-do list for the midget was brakes. We could roll and steer, now we needed to stop. ’40s midgets did not use a brake pedal. Instead, they had a lever on the outside of the … Continue reading
EV Midget Build – Part 5: Metal Work
I now had a midget that could roll around the garage – and even be steered – at my whim. It was a real gas. But there was more work to be done. Despite the decision to stay with a … Continue reading
EV Midget Build – Part 4: Rear Suspension
With the front suspension done, all I needed was rear suspension and I’d have a roller. The original midgets of the late ’40s used a transverse leaf spring and either hairpins or split wishbones. The look of the hairpins is such … Continue reading
EV Midget Build – Part 3 Front Suspension and Steering
Now that the golf cart was stripped, I had pretty much all the parts I needed to build this thing. Now the task was just to meld together two different sets of parts that really, let’s face it, have no … Continue reading
EV Midget Build – Part 2: Harvesting Organs
As I sat in my folding chair at the 2011 Fathers’ Day car show in Wendover, Nevada, I watched several of the other participants buzzing around the parking lot in golf carts, Jazzy scooters, and a motorized cooler. It was … Continue reading
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