01-04-2019, 02:39 PM | #1 |
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Sand Rails
Variant rules for sand rails were published in ADQ 10/3.
Warehouse 23 - Autoduel Quarterly Vol 10, No 3 http://www.warehouse23.com/products/...ber-10-slash-3 This excerpt from Special Ops Magazine regarding the 1990s Desert Patrol Vehicles is interesting. RRs, BCs, and HRRs might be problematic to mount on Car Wars sand rails. :o) Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV) https://special-ops.org/3330/desert-patrol-vehicle-dpv Special Ops Magazine December 28, 2016 The original tests and preparations for such a vehicle used commercial dune buggies modified to carry weapons such as TOW missiles and recoilless rifles. The problem with the recoilless rifles was about recoil because they still had enough power to flip the lightweight dune buggies and this idea was abandoned.
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01-04-2019, 08:57 PM | #2 |
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Re: Sand Rails
What's a sand rail?
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01-04-2019, 10:04 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Re: Sand Rails
Google has you covered: a car designed to drive on sand.
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01-05-2019, 07:39 AM | #4 |
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Re: Sand Rails
Thank you.
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01-05-2019, 07:49 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Sand Rails
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On that basis it seems unlikely that any changes to the CW rules for them. |
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01-05-2019, 01:34 PM | #6 | |
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01-05-2019, 11:09 PM | #7 |
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Re: Sand Rails
In the 80s, it was a VW beetle-based dune buggy. You basically had the “pan” (floor connecting the 4 wheels), the engine in the back, and a steering wheel for the front. You can stick a rudimentary frame (rails) on top and you have a basic off-road capable vehicle that you might not die in if it rolls over...
Me and some friends bought homemade one for $100 in 1988 and tinkered on it for a while, it is most memorable for me in that while quick-charging the ancient battery on it, the battery burst; shooting battery acid all over the place, including my face and clothes... luckily it was extremely dilute, i hit the water hose and washed off so fast that there was no lingering effect (other than those clothes had too many holes to be wearable again). Suphuric acid is tricky stuff. I think we got that thing running and drove it once. Scary enough that we went back to Baja bugs instead. I always like the GI Joe Vehicle the “AWE Striker”. It was a sand rail with a rocket launcher on top.
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01-06-2019, 08:16 AM | #8 |
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Re: Sand Rails
Wow, interesting anecdote. I remember back in the 70s dune buggies and motorcycles on the beach were a thing, and controversial at the time because there was no legislation. I've seen all kinds of "sand rails" I guess, I never knew they were called that.
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01-06-2019, 02:36 PM | #9 |
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Re: Sand Rails
No. Among other issues: One would need to use the Ring Mount from _Chassis and Crossbow_ to mount the weapon (note singular); worse, they have no armor at all.
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01-06-2019, 02:40 PM | #10 |
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Re: Sand Rails
They don't need armour, the bullets bounce of their reputations ;)
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