XBOX driver Hell-cade spotted in Oregon!

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Yikes! And I thought I was the only one with an XBOX driving cab-thing in the Salem/ Corvallis area.

http://corvallis.craigslist.org/sys/1244655915.html

Oh man. Good luck on that $750 fella.

Despite the things this has going for it (no art, dead steering, weak entry, ugly as sin), it does have one redeeming quality: the plexi canopy. How the hell did he "wrap" the top of the cab so perfectly but managed to piss off every other aspect of the building/ planning?




He wrote:
Hand made, very cool video arcade "theater". Modified Xbox system pre-loaded with lots of driving, flying, shooting, and arcade games. Custom user interface – sit down, turn on, and play. Ignition switch on/off. 21" TV. 200 Watt Pioneer stereo with 12" woofers just inches behind the high grade seat. Mid range and tweeter speakers are in dash and headboard. Large smoked Plexiglas roof for others to watch. Base shaker and hacked rumblers rock the seat from sound and game inputs. Exotic wood dashboard. Plays movies and MP3 music. Great as a self contained gaming/movie/sound theater. The steering wheel broke a few years ago and I haven't got around to fixing it. Currently wired to use hand controller (wires concealed underneath.) For more info, check out the construction blog of the step-by-step details and decisions of its construction at: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=57479.0
More than $1,200 invested plus a few hundred labor hours.
Asking $750 OBO
 
I'm thinking the same thing. what's the point of a driving cab if there's no wheel working? And wired controllers? WTF? This is 2009! Go drop a twenty down and get yo-self some logitech up in there!
 
Damn - I remember him building that. Took about a year to build and then in less than a year and a half, now he's trying to sell it. I knew that wheel would break - he used some plastic shit steering wheel. Should have hacked a real arcade wheel to work with it - then it wouldn't be broken...
 
yeah, I read his blogs he posted. For the love of pete! For all the planning,posting,and chatting he went thru.... wouldn't he have wanted to paint it a color or put some art on it?
 
looks like shit and with a broken steering wheel its worth whatever an xbox, tv, and some scrap wood is worth. screws sticking out all over the "exotic wood" CP, the pictures make it plain as day how difficult it must be to get in and out of the stupid thing. $150 tops. pull a chair up in front of the TV. same thing. the canopy is totally unnessecary, its just running an xbox anyways, throw a splitter on there and hook it to the big screen for the rest of people to watch! its what i do with my mame cab and then everyone can see from the comfort of their seats instead of having to stand over the player's shoulder.
 
looks like shit and with a broken steering wheel its worth whatever an xbox, tv, and some scrap wood is worth. screws sticking out all over the "exotic wood" CP, the pictures make it plain as day how difficult it must be to get in and out of the stupid thing. $150 tops. pull a chair up in front of the TV. same thing. the canopy is totally unnessecary, its just running an xbox anyways, throw a splitter on there and hook it to the big screen for the rest of people to watch! its what i do with my mame cab and then everyone can see from the comfort of their seats instead of having to stand over the player's shoulder.

yeah, according to his build log, he wanted it real tight in there for the "away-from-it-all-expereince". But unless you're a circus midget, I' have no clue how you'd get in and out of that thing.
 
At first, I thought he borrowed a wrapped plexi from a Pole Position cockpit, but his plexi appears to be longer a Pole Position's across the top of his cab.

Somebody email him and ask him how he made or where he got that plexi!

Kyle :cool:


Yikes! And I thought I was the only one with an XBOX driving cab-thing in the Salem/ Corvallis area.

http://corvallis.craigslist.org/sys/1244655915.html

Oh man. Good luck on that $750 fella.

Despite the things this has going for it (no art, dead steering, weak entry, ugly as sin), it does have one redeeming quality: the plexi canopy. How the hell did he "wrap" the top of the cab so perfectly but managed to piss off every other aspect of the building/ planning?




He wrote:
Hand made, very cool video arcade "theater". Modified Xbox system pre-loaded with lots of driving, flying, shooting, and arcade games. Custom user interface – sit down, turn on, and play. Ignition switch on/off. 21" TV. 200 Watt Pioneer stereo with 12" woofers just inches behind the high grade seat. Mid range and tweeter speakers are in dash and headboard. Large smoked Plexiglas roof for others to watch. Base shaker and hacked rumblers rock the seat from sound and game inputs. Exotic wood dashboard. Plays movies and MP3 music. Great as a self contained gaming/movie/sound theater. The steering wheel broke a few years ago and I haven't got around to fixing it. Currently wired to use hand controller (wires concealed underneath.) For more info, check out the construction blog of the step-by-step details and decisions of its construction at: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=57479.0
More than $1,200 invested plus a few hundred labor hours.
Asking $750 OBO
 
At first, I thought he borrowed a wrapped plexi from a Pole Position cockpit, but his plexi appears to be longer a Pole Position's across the top of his cab.

Somebody email him and ask him how he made or where he got that plexi!

Kyle :cool:

Its probably polycarbonate (Lexan), not acrylic (Plexi). You heat it with a heat gun and bend it. Not hard at all.

Edit... Looks like he just worked it down with screws.

Plexiglas Roof
I want others to be able to comfortably watch others drive in this cab. I'm envisioning two or three people during a party standing around, watching and talking while waiting for their turn. A key element of that is a see-through roof. Peeling the paper off was a real workout. You have to be stronger than the paper & glue I guess. The roof is held on with dozens of small #4 wood screws. To minimize the potential for cracking, each screw has a small nylon washer. In two places however, I did get small cracks. For as much as this piece of plastic cost me, I'll have to live with them, at least if they stay small. I went with a smoked glass to make the inside more dark and subdued. That definitely is the case especially with the front rounded piece is in place. This plastic is a dust and fingerprint magnet. This is one surface I'll have to clean before parties; along with oiling the foosball table rods. Oh, the price we pay to entertain….
 
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Would be cool for a kid...

But for what it costs to do all that, might as well find some sitdown and put an x-box in there....

Sitdowns are often cheap because of their size.
 
Would be cool for a kid...

But for what it costs to do all that, might as well find some sitdown and put an x-box in there....

Sitdowns are often cheap because of their size.

Yeah, I hear ya! Building from scratch on something of that scale is just too damn expensive. Once you break down and try and build something like that specifically designed for what you want, getting your money back on the resale goes out the window.
 
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