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)
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
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
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