Hey guys, lots of you know about my recent accident. I’ve been looking real hard at golf carts. I absolutely decided I want gas. Looking at carts the prices on used are 4 k plus for a decent one. Going new is somewhere over 10k$. I’ve always wanted a gator and some say there an overpriced golf cart! Well that’s exactly what I want. I’ve looked at hundreds of used ones and let me tell you how absolutely used they are!! Terrible! So at 13k for an entry level doesn’t seems so bad for something that will last 20 years (the rest of my life). I want to stay small, 4’ wide so I can park it in my trailer next to my bike and bring it camping. So who’s got what and what’s the likes and dislikes! Thanks!
I wished more than once the EZGO was electric when I was teaching my wife to drive it but I really like small engines. The main thing showing my better half about the cart was how to choke it on start ups. Has to be choked for every start no mater if it's warmed up or not and she kept flooding it or not choking it enough. She's pretty good at it now though, which is why I'm making the choke mechanism on the Club Car exactly the same as the EZGO. Also the engine start/stop controls.
Assuming it's in good mechanical shape, this seems like it would be a good cart for your type of use Temp. $3,100 (CDN) and maybe less if he'll negotiate isn't too bad, relative to the crazy prices I see now anyway. Too bad you're so far away. It's in the Toronto area so you could slip across the border at Fort Erie and buy it for about $2,000 in US dollars. Not a vehicle that can be registered for the road and no ownership so it shouldn't be a hassle like importing a car or truck. I imagine they'd treat it like they do garden tractors. They don't know what the values for vintage tractors are though so they like it if you have a receipt and/or contact info for whoever you bought it from. Same with carts I imagine. A guy my dad knew lied on the price of an antique stationary engine he was bringing back to Ontario. He went way too low on the value though. As luck would have it, the border guard's dad was into the old hit-n-miss type engines and he was familiar enough with prices he knew what the guy claimed he paid was baloney. Long story short, the engine guy got nailed for smuggling/fraud (don't recall the actual charge). Big fine.
Easy to put a pair of seats on this cart. Only drawback is the long wheelbase makes the turning radius about the same as a JD 400. The cart is actually a lot lighter than it looks. Has an aluminum frame same as my Club Car DS. It's just longer. The box on the Carry All carts is really light too. Never heard anything bad about the original gas engines in these.
That's a nice side by side Jerry! Definitely more capable than my old EZGO Gator wannabe. I only have about $1,500 (hah!) in it though. Does everything I want it to. Old Shiny gets all the heavy hard work now. What would a new Honda like your's be listed at before the negotiations commenced?
I was curious if my 1500 estimate was accurate so I added things up. Like most guys that report to an in-house financial officer I instinctively under-reported the cost . Somewhere around $2,250, spread out over about 10 years to throw my spousal beancounter off my trail. Prices are best recollection but should be fairly accurate.
250 for the original EZGO cart
300 bucks for a new clone engine
250 for a transaxle w/rev and fwd
100 bucks for another EZGO with a better frame and a spare transaxle.
500 for tires and wheels
100 for a newer style front cowl
50 for a new header pipe
50 for a new steering wheel
250 for a new drive clutch
200 for a new driven clutch
50 for a new drive belt
150 for a very basic lift kit.
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$2250 (or thereabouts)
I've had a lot fun building the EZGO. There at least a half dozen versions of it. I changed stuff and then changed more stuff. Lots of "Hmm.. I wonder if..". And is still isn't completely done. Probably never will be. Mechanical evolution at work.
I meant wraps in general not just the camo. I'm not usually a camo guy either but I kinda like that one. It astonishes me a huge bus like that can be wrapped like that. I thought about checking out how they're done but I don't wanna wreck the mystique of it.
Not all wraps are as subtle as cammo... Here is one we did decades ago that was a blatant advertisement and attention getter. That is a 45 foot Prevost coach so the size is not subdued either.. Just the wrap cost several thousand back then, but that included the custom artwork.
Nice nice nice! (the cart I mean ). Makes my mongrel '96 DS look like an antique. I ain't done making it better though. Looks to be new tires on yours. Good all around tread pattern. How quiet is the exhaust? They've phased out the gassers in a lot of camp grounds because of noise and exhaust pollutants. They apparently think electricity is clean and green. It isn't. Especially the power generated by nukeroids.
The noise thing kinda baffles me. As long as nobody is ripping around what's the problem? The 'noise' after dark at the Portland Tri-State is one reason guys love it there. Dad always said he'd like to bed down in that area because the big old engines huffing away and the smell of oil smoke and campfires in the air would lull him to sleep.
Either your right leg is still purplish or you been bleaching your left one because they don't match. Is it actually warm enough there for shorts or is it because you can't put your pants on?
30 inches? Wow! Didn't realize you got hit that hard but it makes perfect sense that mother nature would wait till you can't personally do anything about it.
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I’m still in the market for a gator. Nothings off the table. I might just downsize my whole collection and start parting the rest out. Idk, got to try and walk first I guess 🤣
Location really matters for pricing. Last summer my aunt inherited my uncle's estate (he was her brother) and two almost new Kubota SxS's were included. Don't know the models but they are pretty fancy and were a bit more than 30K new (aye carumba!). She said shipping them was more economical than selling them and buying replacements out in Alberta. In fact she plans on selling one of them when she gets home and will make some money on it even with the shipping cost. So a good price out there would be considered way too high here.
Edit: I mangled that. What I meant was she could pay 30K for one of the Kubotas she inherited, ship it home and still make some money. She's gonna sell one of them but she got it free so it'll just cost her the shipping.
I was hoping my aunt would say take one home but nope. Our mailbox is a hundred feet from the house so I have a good reason to own one. In my opinion anyway .
Ya those kubotas are twice the price and probably twice the quality. I’ve never seen, ran or heard of a kubota that didn’t live up to the name. However I only have two acres, not many hours or miles to pile up on any equipment so I don’t need something that good. It’s not like I’m on a 600 acre ranch out chasing calves and doing chores. More like drive 300’, stop, work, pull part, load, drive 300’ back.
It doesn't matter how much you want it or how much you'll pay, you guys still can't have old Shiny. You'll have to settle for Gators and Kubotas and envy me from afar.
I got a Gator TS today. Not a shiny fast fun machine like those new expensive ones but it will be handy for around the yard as long as I have it I think.
Notice how we all left you hanging on that one? I have posted similar comments lots of times in other threads and nobody followed up. So there I was.. twisting in the wind .
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