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No. I’m not posting pics of the snow outside my window. That’s what Facebook is for. LOL.
But this may be the coolest snow-trac car ever (from Carlisle Productions):
PMOSSBERG 2014-02-13 23:08:47 Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
A gull winged snow cat. For those of us who spent a good deal of their lives up north, it is not possible to look at this VW-cat without smiling.
I do wonder how it is steered. I see a steering wheel where I would have expected levers.Royal2014-02-14 08:51:02
There goes Roy again, getting all practical on us!
I’ve tried to find some info about the car, but all I come up with is the picture.
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Trac
This looks like the basic idea. Note the steering mechanism.
Oh, but wait. This is better.
edsnova2014-02-14 15:00:44
That is awesome! A Micro Bus DJ Booth Sno Cat!
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
These guys have a lot more $$$$ than me to play with. My brother, before his stroke, wanted to make a TD replica into pick up truck. If I had the bucks I’d do it for him, maybe with tracks!! (:
Like this?
PMOSSBERG2014-02-14 21:25:06
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
If I had to mount a pickup bed I think that the short and narrow Ford Model T pickup bed style would work with the lines of an MG TD.
That Moss Pickup TD was all custom, and has an impressive pedigree as it was built by George Beavis. The Beavis Special of the time used an Offenhauser engine to good effect. The original was a basically stock TD body, though by two years later he had streamlined it to unrecognizability.
I’ve not been able to find any pics of the original (here’s someone guessing, but…), and only one or two of the Version III body. Always thought a replica of the original Beavis Special with, say, a carbed Olds Quad4 (or maybe an Ecotech) standing in for the original Offy unit would be a crowd-pleaser.edsnova2014-02-15 09:14:59
I know it isn’t a MG, and it isn’t a snow cat, and you thought this thread was closed, but isn’t this Georgia Department of Transportation snow plow cute?
Royal2014-02-20 13:11:04
That’s hysterical Roy. Any idea what it is, er…was?
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
Looks like a shortened VW Rabbit to me!
Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The Shack
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