MORE random pics......

[GH85Carrera]

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I had that exact same kart at age 14 but with a single engine because you had to be 18 to drive duals. That looks to be the old Harbor Kartway out back of Ascot Park. Then at age 46 I was racing one of these. Start at 1:00 minute.

from Mike Radowski on Vimeo.

[GH85Carrera]

My brother and I begged for a go-cart like most boys I suspect. We might have well been asking for Samurai swords. So we build our own, with a 3.5 HP edger motor someone threw away, and and some bolted together angle iron. Steering was a tiller system using a golf bag wheels, and the "clutch" was a pair of vice grips pushing on a fan belt. So we had to drive with one hand on the tiller, and use the other hand to push down on the vice grips to tighten the belt to go. Brakes were too much to figure out, so that was for "someday" We decided to motorize an old bicycle with that same engine was better. It was almost as crude. Dang we had fun.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Then at age 46 I was racing one of these. Start at 1:00 minute.

That looks fun. @ 6:40 someone brakechecks and gets punted.

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

Look carefully at the tail of the Caddy.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by john70t

That looks fun. @ 6:40 someone brakechecks and gets punted.

Yeah, there are some pucker moments in there. The driver with the camera hit about 100 MPH at 7:13. That's the 100cc single stock class. If you like this stuff, look up the dual classes and the 250cc shifter Super Kart class. Those karts reach over 140MPH!

This is when it was fun! 1977.



Here is a link to a cash at the start of an enduro race where it had just started raining and the stewards mistakenly sent the grid off to race. Then the red flag came out and these 2 chaps didn't get a chance to see it. https://youtu.be/YjSzSi0MtRc Violent warning.

Edit: Maybe I should find the old karting thread and post this stuff there.

[GH85Carrera]

[widebody911]

[widebody911]

[widebody911]

[Racerbvd]

[nb6179505]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Terrible movie, for a while I think you could find it on Hulu or Netflix

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[Racerbvd]

Lol, yes, this really happened

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I had that exact same kart at age 14 but with a single engine because you had to be 18 to drive duals.

There was a go-kart in the photo?

random


p.s. I thought the movie Rubber was a spoof. I had to look it up to prove someone actually made that movie.

[craigster59]

[wrenchhead944]

Rubber , the movie you keep watching. You keep thinking it has to get better than this but,,, it doesn't

[widebody911]

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

There was a go-kart in the photo?

Oh, I didn't see Don Knotts.

[GH85Carrera]