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Unique Urbanna “golf cart” featured on History Channel
“The only difference between men and boys is the
types of their toys.”
Local gear heads like Darrell Sears, Brandon Taylor,
Billy Mayo, and Jimmy Neal know that. Sears, of Lo-
cust Hill, has built a successful business in Urbanna
called Unique Golf Carts. Over the past 12 years he
has made all types of golf carts that are “stock, mild
or wild, and everything in-between.”
Sears was invited to participate in History Channel’s
“ToyMakerz,” Misfit Toys episode, which was filmed
in October 2018. Sears, a Hopewell native, and Ma-
rine Corps veteran went to Reidsville, N.C., where
the show was videoed. Accompanying him was
engine builder Brandon Taylor of Gloucester.
Planning
Besides the custom build, there would be an invita-
tion-only race among six teams at the filming. Sears
bought a 1940s era Dodgem bumper car back in the
summer, now he needed a performance engine.
The first person he called was Taylor of Chandler’s
Automotive Services in Urbanna. Taylor has a wealth
of experience building monster performance en-
gines and trucks for pulling competitions. One of the
trucks he helped build has won at a National Tractor
Pullers Association event.
The only difference now would be the machine’s
size. And the engine? It would be anything but
stock. The rules of ToyMakerz stated the only
engine permitted was a 6.5-horsepower Predator
engine from Harbor Freight. “They didn’t say it
couldn’t be modified,” said Sears. The wheels were
turning for Sears and Taylor as they devised a devi-
ous design for the engine.
Beginning
All this began in February 2018, when Billy Mayo of
Urbanna told Sears about “ToyMakerz” on tele-
vision, a different type automotive program that
featured all kinds of really unusual “toyz.” A few
days later Sears looked it up on the internet and
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saw they were having a photo contest where peo-
ple would show off their rides for a chance for their
“toy” to appear on one of the episodes.
“I kept thinking about it and a couple of days later
I submitted a picture of a 1959 Lussee bumper car
that I had built for a customer from Prince George,
Virginia,” said Sears. “I told my daughter Katy about
it but I had no idea she would call ToyMakerz.”
On Saturday morning she called and left a message
that she was inquiring about the photo contest and
that her daddy had built the bumper car that was
in the photo he had submitted. A few minutes later,
“The” ToyMakerz, David Ankin, returned Katy’s call
and told her he really liked what her daddy had
built.
CONTACT
Unique Golf Carts | Urbana, Virginia
(540) 903-6773 | [email protected]
www.uniquecarts.net
Darrell Sears (left) and Brandon Taylor with a highly modified
“Dodgem” bumper car turned racing golf cart.