Coolest 'Bot Carts

[Mark Garver]

Originally Posted by Jverdon

I was told they have five different versions of it including a Hummer.

We actually do not have a Hummer body. It has been talked about developing a Hummer body, but at this time we do not have one. We do however have 5 of the truck bodies. I am unaware of all of the different colors because they do change from time to time. We started with 6 bodies in 1999; however after that season each of the team members signed one and gave it to our executive sponsor, Tom Stephens.

Originally Posted by Jverdon

the best cart I've seen was the fork lift one, that one team had at the Canadian Regionals last year, forgot the team number though

That cart was actually 1305's. Great team!! We won the Waterloo Regional with them this year and were alliance partners in Atlanta.

Originally Posted by Jverdon

I was wondering if anyone had pictures of Truck town thunder's last years cart? Also I was hoping to see some pics of their cart this year if there are any. I hope they built an awsome cart this year and are going to nationals, I would really like to see it. Also If anyone can answer these please do so. On their cart last year what kind of battery did they use, and how'd they keep it from going dead so fast, since they had all the stuff on it? Also i was wondering if they were worried at all about leaving all the stuff in their cart throughout the night at regionals and nationals. Or did they take it with them for safe keeping?

I have actually uploaded a photo of our cart this year at the Boilermaker Regional which can be found at:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

We did change bodies before Atlanta; going back to my favorite one, red.

The cart has 4 batteries, each 6 volts, wired in series. These are kept under the bed portion of the truck. We charge it every night and usually between when we use it during the day (depending). The batteries are great and they are actually good for a long period of time.

I really don't understand the last portion of your question, since we don't really have much on the cart at any one time. I can tell you that we have never had any problems with people messing with the cart; something great about the FIRST community.


I will keep looking for some more pictures of the cart from '99 and '00. Those two years there were some interesting paint jobs done to the cart.