Lookin' good!!!
Cushman Police Cart "CUSH1" Restoration Complete!
Cushman Police Cart Restoration Complete!
Finally finished my winter project! This is a 1994 3-wheel Cushman Police ATM Cart (Haulster). First project in over 4 years. Not quite a tractor, but figured some of you might enjoy seeing this cart come back to life. It's a survivor and I was able to purchase this cart, as well as a 4 wheel electric Maxim UTV cart for a great deal. Initially, I made the trek out to the mountains in MD for just an electric cart, but found that the seller had a yard full of these. After doing some digging, I found that this cart started its life in New York City, as an NYPD cart, before being leased to a Hospital Center in Washington D.C.
Parts weren't terribly hard to locate. Identifying the engine first helped me in locating the right manuals. Cushman offered 2 engine options for this model year. The Suzuki 660, and the beefier Daihatsu 327 Liquid Cooled Engine. My cart has the 327 and also has cab heat. For manuals etc.. contact Jacobsen/Textron directly, not Cushman. Certain parts are interchangeable.
I changed all of the fluids and dropped the tank. New plugs, fuel sender, belts, trans lines, fuel lines, filters, bulbs, indicators, thermostat, ignition, and miles of new wire. Also purchased new tires (Costco surprisingly had the best quality and deal with free 2 day shipping). Had a little bit of fun with the rear and built a custom wood bed. Decided not to use the blue job box that came with the cart, but re-mounted the inspection panel in the bed. My brother did a great job staining the bed, as well as the stereo work and sourcing a lot of the accessories.. My friend Justin helped out quite a bit with the electrical, stereo and engine hiccups. They're both pictured below hard at work! I used Olympic Stain, and Rustoleum brush-on paint for a better part of the body. This cart is not going to be a garage queen, and I didn't go nuts on the body work, so splurging on paint didn't seem practical.
Apart from the body work, most of the time, effort, and trouble shooting was in correcting the wiring. I encountered "burnt spaghetti" when I popped the dash to look over the wiring. There had been an electrical fire, bad grounds, and loose connections.
I added:
Kenwood stereo w/ overhead speakers and marine enclosure
12V accessory
Alpena markers
Autopal euro style headlights
Plate lights (front and rear)
Button style moto lights on the sides
Fan (of course!)
Bright LED flood in the rear
LED overhead lamp, and floorboard running lights in the cab
Me and my brother wet sanded and polished the amber wheelen lightbar
"CUSH1" plate designed at Zazzle.com
"McKenna" plate designed at Europlates.com
"Farm Use" plate designed at teamlogo.com
This was a lot of fun. Hope you guys enjoy, been itching to share! Now if I could only find a way to attach a mower! Hmmmmmm :fing32:
Finally finished my winter project! This is a 1994 3-wheel Cushman Police ATM Cart (Haulster). First project in over 4 years. Not quite a tractor, but figured some of you might enjoy seeing this cart come back to life. It's a survivor and I was able to purchase this cart, as well as a 4 wheel electric Maxim UTV cart for a great deal. Initially, I made the trek out to the mountains in MD for just an electric cart, but found that the seller had a yard full of these. After doing some digging, I found that this cart started its life in New York City, as an NYPD cart, before being leased to a Hospital Center in Washington D.C.
Parts weren't terribly hard to locate. Identifying the engine first helped me in locating the right manuals. Cushman offered 2 engine options for this model year. The Suzuki 660, and the beefier Daihatsu 327 Liquid Cooled Engine. My cart has the 327 and also has cab heat. For manuals etc.. contact Jacobsen/Textron directly, not Cushman. Certain parts are interchangeable.
I changed all of the fluids and dropped the tank. New plugs, fuel sender, belts, trans lines, fuel lines, filters, bulbs, indicators, thermostat, ignition, and miles of new wire. Also purchased new tires (Costco surprisingly had the best quality and deal with free 2 day shipping). Had a little bit of fun with the rear and built a custom wood bed. Decided not to use the blue job box that came with the cart, but re-mounted the inspection panel in the bed. My brother did a great job staining the bed, as well as the stereo work and sourcing a lot of the accessories.. My friend Justin helped out quite a bit with the electrical, stereo and engine hiccups. They're both pictured below hard at work! I used Olympic Stain, and Rustoleum brush-on paint for a better part of the body. This cart is not going to be a garage queen, and I didn't go nuts on the body work, so splurging on paint didn't seem practical.
Apart from the body work, most of the time, effort, and trouble shooting was in correcting the wiring. I encountered "burnt spaghetti" when I popped the dash to look over the wiring. There had been an electrical fire, bad grounds, and loose connections.
I added:
Kenwood stereo w/ overhead speakers and marine enclosure
12V accessory
Alpena markers
Autopal euro style headlights
Plate lights (front and rear)
Button style moto lights on the sides
Fan (of course!)
Bright LED flood in the rear
LED overhead lamp, and floorboard running lights in the cab
Me and my brother wet sanded and polished the amber wheelen lightbar
"CUSH1" plate designed at Zazzle.com
"McKenna" plate designed at Europlates.com
"Farm Use" plate designed at teamlogo.com
This was a lot of fun. Hope you guys enjoy, been itching to share! Now if I could only find a way to attach a mower! Hmmmmmm :fing32:
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This was allot of fun!!!!! Turned out awesome 
That is so cool! Glad you gave it a new lease on life
I like those Cushmans!...always wanted one like those,but the few chances I had to get one didn't pan out...one at an auction started off at 50 bucks,and sold for 1200!..and it was in about the same condition as yours was..you did a great job restoring those!..
A friend of mine ended up with a 3 wheeled Dihatsu pickup truck similar to your Cushmans,it was a meter maid's truck in the small town he lived in for years--a guy he knew found it rusting behind the impound yard at the police station,and did some dickering and bought it--then gave it to my friend to get running--but the engine was bound up tight and had many parts missing..his son decided to "gut" the engine ,he took out the piston & rod ,so he could put a Briggs engine in front of the original engine and still use the transmission,which was built into the original engine's crank case...he used a pulley and V-belt to spin the old engine with the Briggs..
My friend passed away in 2007,sadly that Dihatsu and most of his tractors and other stuff was all sold for scrap,only a few things his sons wanted didn't get sent to the scrapyard...
When I was a kid,I used to hang around at the corner gas station a lot after school--they somehow ended up with a very cool old Vespa 3 wheeled pickup truck,that had a cab that looked like a helicoptor and it had the same handlebars as a Vespa scooter..they used to let me drive it around the back lot..the engine was under the bench seat,and I remember to put it in reverse you had to flip a lever on the side of the seat..I think it had 4 speeds and the shifter was on the handlebars like a twist grip throttle,so was the clutch,much like a bicycle brake lever is..
A friend of mine ended up with a 3 wheeled Dihatsu pickup truck similar to your Cushmans,it was a meter maid's truck in the small town he lived in for years--a guy he knew found it rusting behind the impound yard at the police station,and did some dickering and bought it--then gave it to my friend to get running--but the engine was bound up tight and had many parts missing..his son decided to "gut" the engine ,he took out the piston & rod ,so he could put a Briggs engine in front of the original engine and still use the transmission,which was built into the original engine's crank case...he used a pulley and V-belt to spin the old engine with the Briggs..
My friend passed away in 2007,sadly that Dihatsu and most of his tractors and other stuff was all sold for scrap,only a few things his sons wanted didn't get sent to the scrapyard...
When I was a kid,I used to hang around at the corner gas station a lot after school--they somehow ended up with a very cool old Vespa 3 wheeled pickup truck,that had a cab that looked like a helicoptor and it had the same handlebars as a Vespa scooter..they used to let me drive it around the back lot..the engine was under the bench seat,and I remember to put it in reverse you had to flip a lever on the side of the seat..I think it had 4 speeds and the shifter was on the handlebars like a twist grip throttle,so was the clutch,much like a bicycle brake lever is..
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