Helmet is required for topless car driving

Say... you have a land rover like in the left picture and you want to drive it around the town.

By Indonesian law, it is required that you wear helmet.

This is the article for that:

 

5. DASAR PENGGUNAAN HELM

- Pasal 23 ayat (1) e Undang-Undang No. 14 Tahun 1992 menyatakan Pengendara Sepeda Motor dan Penumpangnya atau bagi Pengemudi kendaraan bermotor roda empat atau lebih yang tidak dilengkapi dengan rumah diwajibkan mempergunakan Helm.

6. SANKSI TERHADAP PELANGGARAN TANPA MENGGUNAKAN HELM
- Pasal 61 ayat (3) Undang-Undang No. 14 Tahun 1992
Pidana Kurungan paling lama 1 (satu) bulan
Denda setinggi-tingginya Rp. 1.000.000,- ( Satu Juta Rpuiah )

 

The police basically said: " For any 4 wheel (or more) vehicle without "housing" (it means either hard or soft top), the driver and the passenger should wear a helmet, failing to do this will cause the person get maximum one month jail terms and maximum Rp. 1 million (US$ 100) fine.

Now have you ever see the police stopping this kind of car because they do not wear helmet? Never... right...? That's because they are too rich and probably have a lawyer that good enough to make the life of our police miserable. So no Police will stop this kind of car without having a risk dealing with lawyer.

But do not be afraid, because I never see police stopping the topless land rover series as well, they know and rightly so that the series land rover owner will have unpleasant  consequences too

1. The driver or passenger will  have no money to bribe, and they will end up having a paper work to do
2. They risk to get tetanus if they ever touch your series Land rover (land rover owner seems immune to tetanus)

So if you want to be a good citizen... please wear helmet, if you insist not to wear one... I do not think you will be in trouble.. :-)

Drive on...!

Project "Undead" - Chassis preparation

Well well... have not finished the "fighter" project, I met someone who try to do a ground up building his land rover... he acquire a decent land rover and then breaking it into pieces... I meant pieces literally... you can see the pistons, crankshaft and tappet outside the engine block and not a single nuts hold the body part together. He stripped the paint to bare aluminum but he stop due to the time constrain he has currently. So we got the deal for the whole lot for about US$ 200.

I was planning to use it as body part, but knowing that it is quite complete vehicle, why not to build it into something really nice... a classic series III land rover. Anyway I managed to bring all the pieces into a garage and start rebuilding it... Since I want it to be a nice land rover series, I will slowly rebuilding it using all original parts as my money permit.

OK first thing first... what to do with chassis...? there are few rust here and there, but not many, the chassis is still good overall, so I decided to patch some holes and later galvanize it for long term enjoyment.

So I ordered a welder to work on the chassis and added a "wing" on the left side so it can be use as double tank or place for additional battery later on.

This is the bare chassis after few patches before galvanizing, can you see the additional wings? Although this additional wing defeat the purpose of all original thingy... I will galvanized the chassis anyway so it will not 100% original... but it probably better.
The additional wing is the second support plate on the left hand side.
Just before it going to the galvanizing factory, I need to take off the old bushing from this chassis... this is the ideal way to remove the old bushing... some will just hit it with big hammer ( you'll have the risk to crack your poor old chassis), or using torch to heat up the bushing (although this if not done properly will make the hole a bit loose)

After patching, remove the bushing, it is now ready for galvanizing, more on this later..