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Category Archives: Race cars
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
Video: Pre-war Lakebed Hot Rod Racing
A great video of hot rodding days gone by. It is described by its creator, Tommy Lorbeer, as follows: “My dad raced his AV8 roadster at the dry lakes when he was in high school, prior to WWII. My Uncle … 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
The “Why Not?” EV Midget Build – Part 1
Why would you merge a 1979 EZ-GO electric golf cart with a late ’30s midget race car? Why wouldn’t you?
The Midget in the Crawlspace
Growing up, I kept hearing mention of a midget in my Grandpa’s crawlspace. I pictured a little person eating scraps from the dinner table. Later, I found out it was actually a race car dating back to the 1940s.
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