1989 Club Car DS Restomod

This one wasn't found, it was handed down. My stepfather gave it to me for free; it had been his father's before that, the cart he drove around their land. It arrived in 2020, which made it one of several projects that year that existed mainly because nobody was going anywhere.

Underneath the history it was a 1989 Club Car DS: 36 volts, resistor speed control, the original V-Glide. It had also spent a long time sitting. Parts were missing, the body was damaged, and nothing about it suggested it would be driving again soon. The one thing working in my favor is the thing that makes any old Club Car worth saving — the frame is aluminum. A steel frame would have rotted out years ago and taken the project with it.

Everything came off. I wanted a full inventory of what was still usable, and the frame bare enough to inspect properly. Every part got pulled and sorted into keep or replace. The keep pile came out short. What was left was a clean frame, ready to assess and paint.