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Hartman Karts article link - David Luciani - 10-23-2016 HARTMAN BLUE STREAK KART
HARTMAN NUMBERING SYSTEM Below is some useful information from the VKA website concerning the Hartman numbering system. I would like to credit VKA members Bill Pryor, Larry Brown, Steve O'Hara, Micheal Edick for the information below. First, locate the part number on one side of the plate that forms the top of the steering hoop. This is being provided courtesy of Steve Derksen. It has been 36 years since he began the fabrication of the chassis for John Hartman beginning mid 1972 until December of 1984, so these are his best recollections. The numbers on the enduro chassis - SD= Steve Derksen, first number=month, second number= year. He did all the enduro chassis. Sprint chassis - numbers were just serialized i.e 1082, 2157 etc. The sprint chassis were mass produced at a production pipe welding facility by just one welder that produced about one chassis a day along with the production welding. The total number produced was about 500 over the years. The story behind the sprint chassis that have the letter prefix (such as TV17) is that Hartman was contracted to supply 50 karts for the NBC TV show " battle of the network stars " but it was cancelled before the karts were delivered. When all sprint chassis were welded and painted, they returned to the shop where Steve supervised 2 people responsible for the assembly. The enduro chassis were not painted unless requested by the customer. Hartman produced sprint and enduro chassis from 1973 to 1984. A list of currently known Hartman Blue Streaks and owners are listed below the picture gallery. The owner list may be out of date as of this listing. HARTMAN BLUE STREAK ID # / Last known owner of the kart: SPRINT CHASSIS 1973 No 73 Blue Streaks reported or recovered yet. 1974 1056 Brian Shoemaker 1080 Kent Windham 1089 Michael Edick 1111 Kelly West 1128 Kelly West 1137 Michael Edick 1975 2059 Mark Green 1976 2118 Kelly West 2155 Steve Civils 2157 J VanDeusen 1977 2260 Kelly West 2281 Bill Pryor 2283 ???? 2286 Jack Gesler 2306 Phil Rockwell 2324 Jeff May 2326 Kelly West 2338 Michael Edick 2359 Walt Stearly 2432 Terry Schmitz 2504 Steve Thiel 2532 Ilya Leontovich 1978/79 2556 Michael Edick TV14 Randy Gryczkowski TV17 Steve Civils TV25 Nick Badame ENDURO CHASSIS **All single right hand unless noted** KH77 Kelly West SD78 Dan Flanders SD78 Jim Guss SD78 Randy Gryczkowski SD79 Todd Giles SD80 Jeff Goldberg SD80 Randy Gryczkowski SD81 Randy Gryczkowski SD82 Randy Gryczkowski (Single LH enduro) SD82 John Bratton SD82 Steve O'Hara (Single LH enduro) SD83 John Bratton SD83 Randy Gryczkowski (Dual enduro) _________________ Michael Edick Save Save |