Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
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Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
After completing this conversion several weeks ago, as shown in member builds, Derek had still not seen it run in person so I included it when I loaded up the car for today's outing of planes, helicopters, boat and "car". For this posting there seemed no reason to trim out anything as you folks seem to enjoy our banter. And there is plenty of that. When I ran it solo it is harder(impossible) to get such video. There is still a complete interior in this car and yes, there is a cute brunet driving with functioning seat belts in place.(as shown below the video)
Enjoy. I updated the video to include some captions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfBkhb ... e=youtu.be
Enjoy. I updated the video to include some captions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfBkhb ... e=youtu.be
Last edited by west0618 on Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Drift car?
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Wow, an awesome car. Nice one
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Nice little car to drive while the birds are cooling off. Good Idea.
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Thanks DOG! I'm gonna tell you something that you probably won't believe. That car weighs nearly 9lbs, lol. It weighs more than my Trex 600 Pro DFC, lol, but the upgrades that Dad did to it are fantastic and he's quite happy with the results.
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Nice, now chuck some FPV gear on it for him.
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FPV on that Mini would be a lot of fun with one exception. There is NO suspension on it at all. It's a very rigid and solid frame and I think every single bump would bounce the fpv cam all over the place. But....it would be a good deal of fun!!!Stambo wrote:Nice, now chuck some FPV gear on it for him.
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
NIce one:)
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Found the same when I put FPV on my modded 350z nissan.Derek wrote:FPV on that Mini would be a lot of fun with one exception. There is NO suspension on it at all. It's a very rigid and solid frame and I think every single bump would bounce the fpv cam all over the place. But....it would be a good deal of fun!!!Stambo wrote:Nice, now chuck some FPV gear on it for him.
Very bouncy but it was fun.
Once I found a smoother surface to try it on it was much better.
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Done the same with my tank if you recall. Bumpy but great fun nevertheless..
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
I learned decades ago to never say NEVER. Currently I have no plans to invest in a FPV system but after watching this...you never know what next year may bring. As Derek pointed out, this Mini Cooper currently has NO suspension at all. And, looking at this video, I can see that the wind screen was definitely NOT made to be looked through. Between the scratches, distortion and the muting of the colors in the video it could be improved...a bit. But still I was pleasantly impressed. I could easily see setting up a course with orange cones and such and making a run at it. This car was once a well used, sad "toy" but now can literally run circles around most anything at Walmart. This video was shot with the 720P Action Camera. 1 minute 40 seconds long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWGa1j ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWGa1j ... e=youtu.be
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Fun little video, Dad!!
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Very cool pops:)
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
You guys have too much fun, hope my son and I can do some of this once he gets out of college and probably the air force.
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Re: Mini Cooper "toy" to awesome machine
Thanks Ken! This Mini Cooper isn't the same machine that it once was, lol. It began as a "toy-grade" car and now it's quite fast. Dad will surely have to replace the tires next year, lol.
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