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You know what is absolutely overpriced these days?
Oct 13, 2020, 11:41 AM
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golf carts.
3-5k for a decent one.
Hell an old one with a dump bed is 1500.
What the ####
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Oculus Spirit [80978]
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I sold mine last year for $3500
Oct 13, 2020, 11:47 AM
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Prob was gonna need batteries in a few months though. I think I paid $4400 for it in 2017 from Garretts. It was an off lease that looked like brand new. Might try there if you want battery powered. I'm going to get another one; been checking Cl for a gas one, nothing yet.
There is a place in Pawleys that has 2020 gas EZ Go carts (they have fuel injection FTW) for $8k.
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neighbor has a gas one. Very loud.
Oct 13, 2020, 11:51 AM
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But I grew up working on B&S 5hp go cart motors. How different could a golf cart one be?
Put the 4hp head on, bullet cam, tigged lifters and be flying down the road to the waffle house.
Now that I think about it, I got a couple of B&S 5 hp motors somewhere. I wonder if I could retrofit an old electric one with bad batteries with one of the motors?
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Oculus Spirit [80978]
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And it will be loud as #### and smell like ###
Oct 13, 2020, 11:52 AM
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I don't want either in a GC.
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CU Medallion [64837]
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I'll point you to Philippians 4:13...
Oct 14, 2020, 7:13 AM
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"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
But since you're a non-believer, maybe you should consider this verse from the letter of Keith Stone to the people of Golden, Colorado. Keystone 3:16:
"With enough beer, all things are possible."
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extended lifters. You have to line it up perfect and tig
Oct 13, 2020, 11:58 AM
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it.
Take two sets of lifters, cut half of the stem off of one set, tig it on the other set. Now the valves go higher, 4HP head gives it more gas, more compression, more power
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Oculus Spirit [80978]
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I guess buying already modified lifters is completely out of
Oct 13, 2020, 12:01 PM
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the question.
I can only imagine what you have done to your truck.
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Maybe yours isn't loud, but replace your 13hp kawasaki with
Oct 14, 2020, 8:04 AM
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a 5hp briggs and stratton that sat around for 3 decades and then was re-worked by someone who can't even handle basic household projects....
holes busted in the muffler with a screwdriver and claw hammer to open up the exhaust
air filter removed for max air flow
valves adjusted with complete disregard to proper spec.
some sort of chain drive that was stolen off of a single row planter or some such farm equipment.
some sort of battery draining rigged up radio blasting bro-country at full volume from flea market speaker(s).
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Re: Maybe yours isn't loud, but replace your 13hp kawasaki with
Oct 14, 2020, 9:22 AM
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One of the motor's is actually my great uncle's
Oct 13, 2020, 12:22 PM
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who let me borrow it 18 years ago.
He's dead now so I don't think he will want it back.
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Lot o points [155633]
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That's a nice parting gift.
Oct 13, 2020, 12:31 PM
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Not every man has a legacy.
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Oculus Spirit [75673]
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You know why? People like you who don't need them
Oct 13, 2020, 11:49 AM
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looking to buy one.
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Re: You know why? People like you who don't need them
Oct 13, 2020, 12:17 PM
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Do people really think they look cool driving golf carts
Oct 13, 2020, 12:50 PM
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around the 'hood? Isn't a golf cart a white trash status symbol?
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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They should be embraced, most of suburbia doesn't
Oct 13, 2020, 1:21 PM
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really go more than 5-10 miles away from home, why not utilize a golf cart for that kind of lifestyle?
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Oculus Spirit [75673]
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If everybody else gets on board with this, then I'll
Oct 13, 2020, 1:24 PM
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become more agreeable. Right now though, they are just in the way the same way bicycles and and mopeds are.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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We use them to get down to our boats
Oct 13, 2020, 2:53 PM
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They are fun to drink beer and ride around on, though.
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Your dock isn't in your backyard?
Oct 14, 2020, 7:09 AM
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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No, we poors have interior lots and have to drive about half
Oct 14, 2020, 9:22 AM
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a mile down to the dock. It's not a glamorous lifestyle, but we make do with what we have.
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All the “cool” people in my neighborhood have one.
Oct 13, 2020, 2:13 PM
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I have looked them up as well and not willing to drop 4K on a used one for my kids to drive to the pool in the summer. Several people have the Clemson orange and purple ones, those must cost a lot. #### east side of Gville.
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Oculus Spirit [75673]
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I'm really shocked that we don't hear more stories of kids
Oct 13, 2020, 3:58 PM
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getting ran over because they did something stupid in the golf cart. I only see kids doing stupid stuff when driving them.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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I have both been run over by one, and run someone over
Oct 13, 2020, 4:08 PM
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I also rolled one with two of my friends in it once. The beauty is that they're so light they don't really hurt you. I ran over my own foot pulling mine out of the garage earlier this year, no problem.
They are the answer to suburbia traffic congestion, we just need to get people on board with it.
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Lbum, seen that new GC store on 85 down past Powdersville Rd
Oct 13, 2020, 4:17 PM
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? They put a chit load $$$ in that place....
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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Hail yeah they did, that facility is nice AF
Oct 13, 2020, 4:30 PM
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No signs of activity yet, though. I do know a guy who had those guys build him a golf cart....over 50mph electric. It's impressive.
That Piedmont/Pelzer area will be unrecognizable in 5-6 years. Hoping we're going to be relocating down that way soon.
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I’m hoping Six Mile stays nice & quiet
Oct 13, 2020, 9:27 PM
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Have you seen the people who drive them?
Oct 14, 2020, 9:19 AM
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You know, the people who live in a tiny neighborhood, with a community pool, and they use it to drive their kids and crap back and forth to the pool maybe 10 times a year when they have a perfectly good minivan in the garage, heaven forbid they walk and carry their ####. Or the old people also in a tiny neighborhood, who use it to drive to their friend's house 5 houses down the street for bridge night or bingo.
BOTH types of people are EXTREMELY easy to separate money from. And they ruin it for guys like us who just won't play their game. Jet skis is another. Lord they're expensive. ATV's, same.
And I'm not talking about people who live in the country. Nope. City slickers. Suburban soccer mom's.
If I lived in BFE like you, I'd invest in a mule-type vehicle. THAT is something I'd buy, if I didn't live in a neighborhood where evidently over-priced golf carts are the norm. But I walk our kids to the pool. Wife drives them in the minivan. But as long as I'm kicking, and not paralyzed or 80 years old, I'm walking to the pool, carrying a cooler of beer, and ONE kids toy.
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Oculus Spirit [80978]
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Jet skis are the buzzing gnat of the water sports world
Oct 14, 2020, 10:53 AM
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Annoying, and targets to be swatted away.
When they start that flying around me in circles to jump over my wake, I just slow down to idle speed. They normally quickly leave.
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Has Mt. P let you out of golf cart jail yet?***
Oct 15, 2020, 8:21 AM
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Re: You know what is absolutely overpriced these days?
Apr 13, 2014, 11:54 PM
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Guilty. We spent too much on a custom Clemson one over the summer.
The people we bought it from had just made a $13k one for someone in Mt. Pleasant! And they paid with a credit card, so they had to charge em the 9.5 percent tax on it.
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