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klaus
June 29th, 2006, 14:20
Every vehicle from OEM to Formula One is a knock-off someone elses ideas. The only original car was the first one build by Daimler a little over 100 years (http://www.ausbcomp.com/%7Ebbott/cars/carhist.htm) ago and even he copied aspects of it from other inventions.

I am making no secret out of it that this project is a blatant copy of vehicles out there. Instead of claiming I came up with this and that I will share photos that I have collected to guide in the design. Credit where credit is due.

Some of these pictures I found on other website and I'll try to reveal the source. Some pictures are from our classifieds others I shot on purpose for this project.

I will share some photos I have of vehicles that I feel are not what I want to follow but they have one little aspect I like.
klaus
June 29th, 2006, 14:27
The biggest influences are 4 Rangers that frequent our circles.

Gabe Lara's blue Ranger, Garry "Drywall" white Ranger, Carl Renezeder Prerunner and the ex-Penhall grey Ranger


This is the former Penhall Ranger.

www.desertrides.com had a nice feature photoshoot on it in March of 2004
http://www.desertrides.com/features/vehicles/penhall_ranger/index.php

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klaus
June 29th, 2006, 14:28
more photos of same vehicle
klaus
June 29th, 2006, 14:30
more photos of same vehicle.
klaus
June 29th, 2006, 14:30
more photos of same vehicle..
klaus
July 9th, 2006, 00:35
This is Gabe Lara's Ranger. The truck uses Newlines front and rear suspension and is powered by a mild 302 EFI V8. I like how the truck looks clean and innocent, yet has a good suspension letting it go fast in the whoops.
klaus
July 9th, 2006, 00:36
more pictures of Gabe's truck
klaus
July 9th, 2006, 00:40
more pictures of Gabe's truck.

The last photo is not the same truck but the same front suspension kit.
klaus
July 9th, 2006, 00:46
Center console with stock manual transmission.
klaus
July 9th, 2006, 15:24
Gary's Ranger
klaus
January 17th, 2007, 23:28
A small detail I picked up on a recent Port built Trophy Truck. I have seen this before but now I finally took a picture of it.

an open tube intersects with another tube without a midar-cut(sp?) fitting. Instead of leaving the end open it gets covered by a plate that wraps around all tubes involved. The Ranger project has 4 of those intersections at the very rear behind the fuel-cell. We will terminate it in a similar fashion.