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Ultimate Rat BUGGY?

Rural Baja · 2009-01-03T09:35:35+00:00

Up at the property this beast has been in the next door neighbours yard outside for about 8 years. The bloke who I got it off, his father built it in Winter 1972 and it has been down the beach ever since. I swear this old girl must have seen more bush tracks than jesus did walking! She has been sitting unused since the owners death in 1991, then 10 year ago she was taken outside to rot. Starting off with a flat pece of casing plate, old Merv proceeded to fit two pieces of flat steel bar down either side to which he welded the backend off a beetle. With the front beam he welded the front beam to the rails. You have to see the old girl to beleve it. He must have manufactured everything himself, from the rollbars to the front headlight. She really is a ripper! And yes the glass in the front light is out of a speedo….. Sadly after all these years in the open, she has got a bit of cancer in the floor and the casing plate around the front. But still make a good rat. And she used to have BOBCAT writtenb in big black letters on the fueltank. You can still see the remnants of that! The guy towed me the 500metres home with me hanging on for dear life and him in the hilux, got 100m and the wheel flew off haha. Had big wide tyres with white walls on it but I had to ditch them cause they were stuffed but ill probably chuck them back on for a few more pics. Here’s old BOBCAT

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handycam king of something

1,338 posts · joined Oct 2003 · 13 Mar 2009, 9:02 pm

#700666

mate said it was green and white so yours I think I just missed you what's your rv rego cost you a year now

Rural Baja #tassievwpickers

1,075 posts · joined Jan 2006 · 13 Mar 2009, 9:05 pm

#700667

Yea thats the girl.

Its setting me back $86 for 6 months, still pretty cheap. One of the only things that are...... 😂