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WHAT STARTED AS A GOLF CART
BUILD-OFF COMPETITION...
ENDS UP SUPPORTING
OUR VETS
By:Chris Bourgeois
I
n early February my partner
Bryan Frye and I were invit-
ed to compete in a Golf Cart
Build-Off.
This competition would be
a yearlong competition, starting
January 1st, 2019 until December
31st, 2019.
There would be two classes, MOD-
IFIED, and SUPER MODIFIED. The
rules stated that you MUST start
with a Golf Cart Frame and the
motor had to be in the original
location.
The two classes would be separat-
ed by a dollar value based upon
construction cost. Modified would
be $0- $7000.00 and Super Modi-
fied would be $7001.00 above.
To participate and compete in
such a competition it would take
quite a bit more financial backing
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than “FRYE” and I could do on our
own. We agreed if we were going
to do this, we would be going
into the TOP CLASS with all inten-
tions of HOLDING UP The WINNING
TROPHY at the conclusion of the
competition.
As we kicked around the idea of
accepting this challenge to com-
pete in the build-off the more we
read about the details and rules
of the competition on the Golf
Cart Modified Facebook page, we
saw that SPONSORSHIP assistance
recruiting would be allowed. Well
knowing the skills and class of the
builders we would be competing
against we would need to bring
our “A-GAME” and be prepared to
include a few specialized cus-
tom tricks that we already have
employed on other builds as well
as a need to be very creative with
new ideas and specialty designs
to compete in this competition.
Never being involved with such an
activity of asking for sponsorship
I was very apprehensive about
taking on such a task.
After thinking about this a cou-
ple of days I decided I could not
ask sponsors to build a cart that
I would end up owning after the
competition ended December 31st,
2019.
It was suggested to me to build
the cart and then donate it to a
charity organization.
Well, that just made things easier
for me as I am a very strong sup-
porter of all military veterans.
The decision was made to contact
Quadvets.org as the group I would
donate the cart too.
I sat down and created what I call
a form letter stating Bryan Frye