BajaNomad - Golf Cart for Transportation

Golf Cart for Transportation

Iflyfish - 5-17-2007 at 11:38 PM

I am considering the purchase of a golf cart as a TOAD with my RV. The law allows me, as a disabled person, to use one in my neighborhood in Oregon if it meets certain criteria.

I have not noticed, but have others seen folks using golf carts in Mexico for transportation? Is it legal to do so and would it matter?

I thought if anyone would know, it would be this august group. Don't gloat, I didn't mean you.

Thanks,

Iflyfish

yamaha golf cart.

capt. mike - 5-18-2007 at 05:16 AM

i love em!! here's a pic of my yamaha street legal gas powered i drove daily on an airpark development project. took the governor off, man it flew!

should never have sold it, it was cherry! but i made $700 keeping it 2 years!
i'd love one for baja. sure, drive it on the streets but get a gas unit, not electric.

[Edited on 5-18-2007 by capt. mike]

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Bob and Susan - 5-18-2007 at 06:09 AM

we have an ezgo gas model...
just import it at the border...no problem

DO NOT get ANYTHING you can't get parts for easily

WOW it's fantastic...
the governor does slow it down but susan NEEDS it or she'd flip it in a minute

oh yea bring an extra spare tire

the people here use quads too to get around and those yamaha gators
those thing really "move-out"

mike...you need to get one for the hotel to get back and forth to the swim-up bar :lol:

capt. mike - 5-18-2007 at 07:26 AM

wait Bob....it gets better....i am getting handicap plates and the sticker for baja so i can park anywhere :bounce:

wait till Don J sees me in his parking spot.... but i'll be a mere hobble away from the bar.

hummm.....maybe i should get a raskal scooter....can it fit between the isles at Saul's market?? :lol:

Iflyfish - 5-18-2007 at 10:38 AM

Thanks guys, that clinches it.

Mike it gets even better than that.

In Oregon I qualify for a disabled sticker. With that sticker and a special license, only requires driving a field tester around the block, in my neighborhood, I can drive a cart designed to go no more that 15mph on any street with a speed limit of 25mph. That means it is my second car here in the states and will get me to and from shopping!

I also found that they are developing golf carts with wide wheels and special protection from leaks, so that you can drive them on golf GREENS!
This is being done because of the number of law suits that golf clubs have lost due to the ADA, Americans With Disabilities Act, which requires EQUAL access to all public activities and events. This is a law with real teeth. Real penalties for not complying. Very good news for us aging boomers with mobility issues. Good news also in the face of exploding gas prices.

My brother who lives in Queretero, says that they are commonly driven on the streets of St. Miguel.

Thanks again for the helpful posts.

Iflyfish

Iflyfish - 5-18-2007 at 10:39 AM

Mike,

Are those Mexican plates? How did you get plates?

Iflyfish

tripledigitken - 5-18-2007 at 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by Pompano
Iflyfish...there have been quite a few golf carts used over the years in Mulege. Most by RVers, but some by locals, too. I used to know one gal in town who must have put 5000 miles on hers...putting around the tiendas.

At 14, I once rode a gas Coleman golf cart cross-country. Cross-country meaning North Dakota...pretty trouble-free ride....not quite like fighting LA freeway traffic! I took off in that cart armed with my trusty .22 for fighting off wolves/pocket gophers & such ..driving the thing about 100 miles at a whopping 12mph...had a blast.

It's sure not as much fun around here when your not posting. You crack me up. :lol:

jerry - 5-18-2007 at 11:24 AM

there are quite a few golf carts running around loreto
i think they now requires a plate thou??

Iflyfish - 5-18-2007 at 11:42 AM

great story,
born in Crystal N.D. myself
loved being raised on a farm, nice way to grow up
used to go to town once a week, a nickle for a whole roll of bbs, bounty of five cents for pigeons and a quarter for gophers. used to collect the spent bbs to reuse. pigeons crapped on grain, reduced price, gophers ate the carrots. full employment for my brother and I
looked at the wind blown blue flax fields and dreaming......that's what the ocean must be like
Iflyfish

Don Alley - 5-18-2007 at 12:02 PM

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Originally posted by jerry
there are quite a few golf carts running around loreto
i think they now requires a plate thou??

Yes, Loreto requires that all carts have plates.

Bob and Susan - 5-18-2007 at 12:55 PM

think about this...
you get up...
drive your cart 50 feet to the beach...
hop into the boat...
fish...
drive back with a cart load full of fish...

it's just like disneyland down here :biggrin:

vandenberg - 5-18-2007 at 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by Bob and Susan
think about this...
you get up...
drive your cart 50 feet to the beach...
hop into the boat...
fish...
drive back with a cart load full of fish...

and drop them off at the wife's "shaded" fish cleaning table. Time for a Pacifico ( now a Victoria ) :lol:

capt. mike - 5-18-2007 at 01:37 PM

plates, naw - i was joking. but my one in phx did have a legal az plate.

i am gonna get a rail.

astrobaja - 5-22-2007 at 05:26 AM

Hi Iflyfish,

A golf cart is a great idea, but you may want to consider something more substantial (more $$ though too). My Wife and I are planning to build a astronomy B&B in the moutains near San Pedro Martir this fall, my observatory will be about a km away from our house on a nearby ridge. So I've been researching some small electric cars that I could charge up off our solar house grid. I saw a bunch of these babies in use when I was down in Key West a month or so back:

http://www.gemcar.com/

I will be getting the 4 person version, it has a great range (esp with the better battery pack) decent speed (25mph) and a pretty sophisticated suspension. Hell these guys should be in use in every downtown in the world!

check it out!

Astrobaja

Bob and Susan - 5-22-2007 at 05:55 AM

we might get one of these from this guy...
http://www.jimstractors.com/tractors_available.htm
$3850

these are REALLY cool...
small..really small
light
little farm "workhorses" that could take the dirt

you would have to license in mexico but no problem

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