One day late last year, Bill RUlien decided he'd had enough of people boasting about how they had modified their golf carts with hotrod paint jobs or monster-truck tires. "I thought, I'm gonna build something that will say, Well, top this.' " Rulien owns several golf-cart sales shops in the Midwest, so he had his choice of bodies. What he needed was a bigger engine. He picked out a cart that he'd been selling for parts and yanked the electric motor, transmission and drivetrain. Then he bought an old International Harvester Scout truck that had been rusting in a yard nearby and brought it to his shop. (The brakes were shot-when Rulien backed the truck off the trailer, the Scout immediately rolled through a fence and halfway up a berm.)
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