Over the past 3 weeks I have been locked away in the garage buildings a half
scale Caterham 7 (also known as a grasshopper)
I started this project almost 14 months after seeing a photo on the internet
of a half scale
Locust kit car
Grass
Hopper Wiki , then after searching I found you can build a half scale
locust
called a Grasshopper, but by this point I had started drawing and sketching up
the plans.
after finding Ron Champion’s book on build a kit car for $250 that was it ,I
ordered one and started re-scaling everything in the book and have been working
on it on and off for some time.
if you are handy with Google you can find almost anything and after a lot of
photos and converting everything I could find. I finally completed a basic set of drawings.
in October 2012 I Started construction. and I have to say it has been a learning
curve, I did engineering collage a long time ago. But being an avid Discovery
Turbo fan and thanks to people like Mark Evans, my wife thinks she’s a signal
mum now.
i got in to Power wheels after buying my first Power Tech Raptor, Sorry I
should say my sons first Go kart. After a Google and finding the
modified power
wheels web site. ANY THING IS POSSIBLE as long as you have fun and don’t
damage the kids in the proses. as my first son gets older and want to play with
is younger brother and sister on the Power wheels its time to start thinking
bigger we have a Power Wheels Lil Sand Blaster, and a Big Jake both modified to
12v and go like kids in a sweet shop (around 6 to 8 MPH)
This is the only photo i have of the first go kart after stripping for parts
but as kids get bigger to do their toys and at my age, I’m not allowed to
get a Caterham yet not enough seats or something like that, So my love for 2
seaters and Power Wheels, it’s time to go and combined the 2 and build a half
scale Caterham 7 based on a
locust plans by Ron Champion.
Dad
