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Adkins Raceway 2016
VKA       October 8, 2016      Events     No Comment
VKA at Adkins Raceway Park in Port Washington, Ohio, August 12-14, 2016 … this historic track has re-opened !!! Adkins Entry Form      ...
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Oreville 2016
VKA       October 2, 2016      Events     No Comment
Sept 16 & 17, 2016 VKA Sprint Event at Oreville, PA OrevilleFlyer Oreville Entry Form...
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Avon 2016
VKA       August 29, 2016      Events     1 Comment
July 28-30, 2016, at Avon NY. Over 40 karts in attendance for a large kart show and several classes of on track action.  ...
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Camden 2016
VKA       August 10, 2016      Events     1 Comment
July 28–30  VKA Sprint Event – Camden, OH Camden FLYER Camden ENTRY FORM...
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Brodhead 2016
VKA       July 27, 2016      Photos     2 Comments
July 7-9, 2016, The Brodhead Historics at Sugar River Raceway, Brodhead WI. Photos by Mike Morrall...
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New Castle 2016
VKA       June 27, 2016      Events     3 Comments
VKA Event at New Castle Motorsports Park June 16–18  VKA Sprint Event – New Castle, IN Event Promoter: Jeff Brown,  JeffBrownVintageKarting.com NewCastleENTRY2 NewCastleFLYER Photos by Leah Bennett:     Photos...
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Springfield 2016 – Photos & Videos
VKA       June 6, 2016      Events     3 Comments
May 27 & 28  VKA Sprint Event – Springfield, IL Flyer & Entry Form...
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Circleville 2016
VKA       May 6, 2016      Events     1 Comment
VKA Vintage Sprint Event at Circleville Ohio, April 28-30th, 2016 photos by Rolf Hill...
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Barnesville Winter Nationals 2016 – March 17-19th
VKA       March 26, 2016      Events     1 Comment
The 9th annual “Vintage Kart Winter Nationals” at Barnesville GA was held March 17-18th, 2016. Another fabulous event conducted by Bog Barthelemy at his historic track, previously home to 26 WKA...
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Riverside CA, Feb 4-6, 2016
VKA       February 23, 2016      Events     2 Comments
Adams Kart Track, Riverside CA,   event flyer Feb 4–6  VKA Event – Riverside, CA  ...
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heres a beautiful example of a margay new breed dual gearbox kart powered with two west bend 820's.
it has front brakes dual carbs and the margay pipes.



heres a 1968 margay new breed sidewinder dual running what looks like two comet motors possibly k99?

I understand my username is not my real name can someone help me change it?  Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

There are more and more vintage kart websites popping up. As you may have noticed we are currently the youngest site for vintage karting on the net. we aren't exactly newbes but this forum is pretty new. As the main purpose is to promote vintage Karting we've listed all the Web pages we know about. if your forum was missed please let us know and it'll be added. when and if i get around to it the weblinks will be put into a cooler format.
but for now they are simple touch links.
Enjoy.





VKA website
VKA facebook page

 The Vintage Kart Association Web Site. These guys arte responsible for the "Suggestions" on rules for Vintage Events. Anyone creating a vintage event needs to use the VkA guidelines if they expect decent attendance at their event.Vintage Karters look for these rules to be used to ensure consistency and safety at the events they attend. There is also Thousands of event pictures giving anyone looking an idea of what they are missing at the live events.

VKCA webpage
Vintage Kart Club of America facebook page
Vintage Kart Club currently has no forum just a web page for announcements. They do have the above facebook page which is a decent chat room for vintage stuff.


Rear engine karts
Rear Engined Karts forum is mostly about rear engined karts. it's main goal is to promote Rear engine Kart restoration and their stellar event The Big One or as many know it [b]T.B.O. [/b]Held in Fredmont Ohio it is the go to place for anyone wishing to see the absolute best U.S.A. restored vinttage karts. As a vintage karting event is is possibly the oldest and certainly the longest running vintage event to Attend. Rear engined American powered karts only Please.They have what was originally a "silly" prize "the Biggie" as an event award for the four Best Karts attending. The secret rules and judges ad to the mistique. Currently winning a "biggie" is considered the top award in the world of restoration minded Vintage Karters. There are no racing grids run just simple track time and bench racing .

Allan King,
I would like to submit our website:

Vintage Karts Prix Website

VP  Qld Vintage & Historic Karting Inc
Brisbane , Australia

Vintage karts brazil (facebook)

a very interesting club have a look


Vintage Kart Website Forum
(This forum has crashed currently still broken)
The Vintage Kart Website Forum. Currently the top ranked forum on the net. It Has thousands of posts about identifying and fixing vintage kart anything. The best part is the informatiuon is almost all extremely accurate and useful.

vintage karts web site  
 Web Site for Go Karting History, certainly the oldest.originally Created by Bob DiNozzi it became the go to site for vintage karters long before anyone else. It is currently owned and maintained by Gary Emilio.

Vintage Kart Collection
He has perhaps one of the finest vintage karts collection in Europe that exists to date. I originally found this site many years ago looking for parts to my Gilson Excalibur.The path it lead to has been interesting.

This article i imported from the website vintagekarts.com
many have never been over there looking around. there is alot of neat stuff that we'd love you to read.
Dave

Quote:"2006 represents a major milestone in the history of karting - 50 years since Art Ingels zoomed around in his motorized kart (now famous and referred to as "Kart #1"), grabbing the attention of other southern Californians and leading to the launch of a tremendous sport and multi-billion dollar industry. The rest is the proverbial history - as detailed elsewhere on this website (see "Kart #1" and "History" articles). Karting Industry Council (KIC) and the entire karting industry celebrate this industry milestone.

2006 will also mark 10 years that this web site has been in existence. It was mid-1996 when I first launched the site then called "Klassic Karts". It started life as a self-teaching exercise in web page design. I needed a sample topic and vintage karting was a natural for me to write about due to my long-term interest in those early karts. The site began as a simple adjunct to my personal "home page" and was in part an experiment to gauge whether there were others out there with a similar interest in vintage karting. It seemed a natural area of interest given the level of participation in the sport in the early days and the incredible amount of character those early karts had-   certainly there had to be lots of folks who'd be interested today in vintage karts. The other question mark had to do with how many old karts were likely to be found in old barns and whatnot and not butchered to dewath in transformation to yard karts (or simply disposed of). In those early dats of "Klassic Karts", I believed vintage karting to be a' sleeping giant'  (I think I was correct on that call). The level of interest I encountered exceeded any expectations I had early on and in November of 1997 I decided to launch a "real" web site - domain name and all-  and decided to call it Vintage Karts. Although I am sure the existence and popularity of the sport of vintage karting was inevitable, I like to think that I played some part in helping its launch.

In those early days I collaborated a lot with Carl Billington who already had established the Vintage Kart Racing Association (predecessor to VKA). Carl had organized a vintage race at Sugar Hill Speedway (Weare NH) as early as 1996. He was also instrumental in getting me started in actual participation in karting. (Read "Bob's Bio").

So what's up for 2006 on this site? Well - one of my goals all along has been to open the site up to more participation by others. Time to move past being a vehicle for what Bob has to say about this or that and become more about communication among vintage karting's participants. Also time to revisit site design (which hasn't really changed much over the years) and also try to form a tighter integration with VKA. Changes are in the works and details have not yet been worked out, but rest assured the site will remain for the benefit of the sport.

Bob's Bio

I have finally relented to many requests to talk about about how the Vintage Karts web site came to be. OK - so what's up with this guy who started the Vintage Karts web site anyway?!  I have already told part of the story in the lead-in article Karting Turns 50 , but here's the rest of the story.

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I have loved those early karts since the first time I saw an ad for a Go Kart (400) kit for $129.95. It was maybe 1958 - I was 10. I didn't have $129.95, but I did have 25 cents and sent in for the catalog.  I did also avidly read car magazines back then and totally devoured any articles or ads having to do with karts. Early Bugs were very appealing to me. I even coaxed my dad to drive me cross town to New England Speed Equipment in early 1960 and savored the thrill of actually sitting on a real kart.  (Something about a metallic blue Bug with a bright yellow MC5 still grabs me to this day.) I did know every kart, every engine, and by 1961, pretty much knew how 2 strokes worked - at least in principle, through magazine articles though I never had actually worked on one. I rememeber that in 9th grade (1961-62) I sketched designs for karts during all my classes (but still managed to ace Algebra). I do think this interest in karts - and cars - had a lot to do with my eventual career direction (Mechanical Engineering). Still, no hands-on involvement with karts.

To make a long story short, the early karting "craze" sort of came and went (with the kart glut of late 1962). In fact, I would come to own a real car (a 1957 ford, purchased in 1964 at age 16) long before I'd ever own a kart.

Over the decades I remained interested in karting, though at some distance, never quite participating. In the early 70's for example I visited a kart shop in Massachusetts and took note of the design evolution that had already taken place. Circumstances were not right for me at that time of my life, however, to get involved with the sport.  In 1976, while living in Brazil, I attended a few local kart races (in Caxias do Sul, RS, for those of you familiar with Brazil) and visited a local shop that sold Mini and Parilla brand stuff  if I remember right. Still didnt jump into the game though. In the 80's I bought a few books on karting and took keen interest in the design evolution still proceeding. In fact, Bug was at that time selling, as a fun kart, a model   that very much resembled early 60's racing Wasps. In my heart, that was the kind of kart I really wanted to race, but buying one would be no ticket to racing. And the modern stuff, while impressive, didnt grab me in the same way.

One day in 1994, my wife Carlene and I ventured up to Loudon to watch some kart races and walk around the pit areas and we had a chance to talk to a lot of folks. I was very impressed by the level of design sophistication of the modern machinery to say the least. And the participants with truck, trailers, etc., virtual machine shops - to support their racing. Very impressive technically, but perhaps, more than ever, a sport I was not likely to jump into. I was also impressed during that visit by the friendliness of particpants and their willlingness to talk about their karts, explain the classes of racing, and so forth. One family even invited me up on top of their trailer for better viewing of the races. This was a great bunch of people. Still, the sport wasn't quite for me.

It was common for me around that time (early-mid 90's) to doodle drawings of kart designs on restaurant napkins, though these karts generally took the form of vintage karts (or in some cases cartoonish V-8 powered vintage karts and crazy stuff like that). So, in 1996, when I ventured into the brave new world of the internet and sought to teach myself web design, there was no question as to what topic I would first write about. I found that my early keenness and avid reading about karts as a kid provided a fairly vivid historical perspective and that, with a little research to supplement, I indeed came to be somewhat of an expert on the historical aspect of karting. I had not, however, up to that time, ever actually owned or even driven a kart except for the amusement park stuff. It wouldn't be until 1998, in fact, when I would own my first kart - a Rupp Grand Prix/MC91 that I found via a referal from (the now late) Don Boberick. It took a little bit to get the kart up and running and Carl Billington came over to help with that. We actually have video tape somewhere in the house of carl doing donuts with that kart in my backyard.

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                    1965 Rupp purchased in 1998; R1 at Cuddy, 2001.

My first race would not be until 2001, at Cuddebackville, in an R1 (MC6 powered that first year) that Carl, Neil Goguen and Paul Bronnes built up for me. (The low power of the MC6, understeering nature of the R1, and my relartive inexperience teamed up to make for a less than impressive appearance to say the least, but it was a thrill actually be racing an early 60's kart on a track!!!

During these past almost-10 years since I started writing about vintage karts, I have made lots of friends - many just via email whom I never even met in person - others at the track, or those who have helped me immensely setting up my karts (like Gary Emilio), letting me practice or race on theirs (like Chris Sahagian). And while it is nice to read the various thank yous that people post in message boards or in emails, indeed it is I who owes LOTS of thanks to all those who helped get me involved in the sport and all of you who have supported the web site, participated in the sport and have helped make it grow.
      

Bob DiNozzi"