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"Young boy with his ear to the rail of railroad track in an attempt to hear the vibrations of a distant approaching train, one of four Chicago and North Western trains that pass by this small station daily, 1950."

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Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 10482865)

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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.
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/45019963">Enduro Karting - Grattan National 2012 WKA Road Race Series</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user6304495">Mike Radowski</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

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.

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Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 10483561)

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.

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Originally Posted by john70t (Post 10483741)

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 10484276)

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

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