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Re: Handicapped modified Vehicles	Tue, 02 November 2004 02:27

UPDATE: For the few of you here that have been asking how things were going in relation to Finding and converting a suitable vehicle here we go... After looking around at several companies here and abroad that modify vehicles properly, we settled on Freedom Motors at St Marys to get the conversion done. Mum purchased a 2004 Tarago early this year and the ball was set in motion for the conversion. Cutting a really long story short, the conversion that was to take 6-8 weeks ended up taking 5 months to complete due to bad publicity from another similar person doing modifications poorly (if at all) the Today Tonight story that followed and the involvement of the RTA kindly shutting down all this type of work being done whilst investigation were done and ADR's modified. Leaving Mum without a car (or driving my brothers Supra ) After a lot of phone calls and some surprise visits to the factory and the threat of not paying the full amount for the conversion if it wasn't finished by a certain date. The Tarago is now complete and on the road (save for engineers certificates) I had a look at it over the weekend and I am rather impressed with the attention to detail and the quality of the work to mesh the conversion with the rest of the car. Basically If you can see the photos a well was fitted to the rear of the car with a fold down ramp to allow access to the rear. Previous Tarago conversions usually had the rear end converted to IRS but due to garage height restrictions the guys had to re work the standard set up to retain close to factory ride height which they did well. You can see on the floor there is a dimond shape locking mecanism that has been fitted and a matching lock fitted to the base of the wheelchair. Upon entering the rear, a button is depressed unlocking the lock mech. and a guide on the underside of the wheel chair guides the locking pin into place (there is onluy a few seconds to do this but once the button is depressed the car is immobilised until the wheelchair is locked into place. Once in place there are lap sash belts for the wheel chair occupant as well. The rear bench seat was removed for the conversion but due to the nature of the rear axel work the rails that the seat normally sits on were able to be retained and the seats can be locked back in. Freedom provided us with a false floor that sits over the well when not in use. This was not part of the work they told us about origonally and was a nice addition to the package and made up somewhat for all the trouble caused whislt being without a vehicle, to have a completely operational vehicle + seating for the wheelchair. Any hoo here are some happy snaps... Mum has already taken my brother up to Port Macquarie and found the ease of transporting him around very refrshing compared to the old way and is now much less stressed about taking him out shopping. http://www.haroc.1337thing.com/ls1/Lambolica/Tarag o%20Conversion/ [Updated on: Tue, 02 November 2004 08:07] [Report message to a moderator]

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