All I can say is he tried.
(That’s all a steer can do.)
Start-up cost’s are too high for his budget.
Here’s another start-up company.
http://www.southernmotorcompany.com/
Remember Tucker? Regardless, I hope they both do well!
Jon.
From the Southern profile section: “Control the high beams? The button is on the floor, where it should be.”
No, it’s harder to find on the floor, and your left foot is unavailable for clutch or brake operation.
It took the Japanese putting the switches on the steering column to force US automakers to finally move them off the floor.
I hope they checked state and federal laws on this.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
I like the high beam switch on the floor, as it is in my 1981 PU. I brake with my right foot and the tranny is an automatic.
Moving many of the controls up to the turn signal stalk has it’s positives and negatives. I’ve never had to replace the turn signal stalk on my old truck.
I’ve had to replace several on newer vehicles. And they are not cheap with all the additional functions. More functions, more wear and tear.
Ralph
Floor is OK with me. All my old trucks had floor switches. (Now I gotta go out in the barn and check my '79
“Found On Road Dead” It’s been a while since I looked in it. 
Nice truck.
Wish I could afford one.
I wish I could afford the Southern too. But at $68,000, no motor or trans, not a blue collar truck.
Ralph
Here is a new car company with a much better chance of success.
Tesla Motors.
Ralph
http://www.teslamotors.com/buy/buyshowroom.php
Saw the Tesla on TV the other day. I think it was Speed Channel.
I hope you never have to replace the batteries. You can buy a lot of gas with that money.
This small car company has been around for a few years. I saw one of their S-7’s last year.
Mamma Mia!!!
http://www.saleen.com/saleen_s7_main.htm
They had 2 Tesla’s on Top Gear last week, or was that the week before… Pretty cool, but they broke both of them
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Like Tucker, somebody will find a way to use the regulators to stop him.
I liked the old floor switches too. I had mine rewired to control off-road lighting, extra switches added and even used some as ignition kill systems for custom cars we built.
Jon.
When I got my license, I wasn’t yet 5ft tall. I think by today’s laws, I’d still be in a booster seat. In Mom’s car, the floor switch was WAY up and over there. Don’t think I could have reached it with a seat belt buckled.
There was a Hot Rod TV program on a few months ago the built one of these trucks (53 Chevy ?). A supplier/fabrication shop built a jig for the frame and was able to buy or build all the tin and components. The show built the beta, tweaking as they went to make mods to the original jig.
It went together (on the show) really nice and I am sure sell the thing as a kit for less than the $68k. I have one on my list.
You can now build completely a '48 - '52 (or so) Chevy PU, 1-800-xxx-xxxx, frame and all.
Or a '32 Ford, or a '41 Willys, among a lot of others.
Kit cars, kinda, but you half to call lots of venders for various parts.
They call them the “One Eight Hundred” hot rods.
Cost depends a lot on whether you do a steel body or a fiberglass body.
A fiberglass body street rod can be done for a reasonable cost.
However, when I go fast, I like steel around me.
So all I can afford to do, for now, is go slow =(
Ralph
Here is a fiberglass 32 Ford with a real big block Hemi. My buddy told me he had over $40,000 in the engine alone. The body is chopped, and channeled. You can spend a pile of money on a street rod, even starting with a fiberglass kit. Ralph
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/cabby/_forumfiles/dsc00005.jpg)
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What car? There’s a car in the pic??? oh yea, now I see it…
Nice set of headers!
But I’m a clean small block, or flathead kind of guy.
Some folks like to wow 'em with huge plants, I like the “old school” stuff.
This is the kind of flathead I’d like to make into another trike.
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David,
I like it!
My neighbor has a Flathead trike as well, but he made it into a little “Bucket T” with a tiny pick-up box on it. The Flathead in his trike is out of a '52 Merc, so it’s pretty big.