03-15-2018, 04:44 PM
02-14-2018, 01:04 AM (This post was last modified: 02-14-2018, 01:10 AM by Kurt Bogerman.)
So here goes...
I've only joined the VKA recently, but I've been watching the REAR and VKA forums for a long time. I'm not a seasoned karter, but I've owned my Rupp Grand Prix since the summer of 1990, the summer after eighth grade, when I bought it at a garage sale with some extra cash kicked in from my dad. The seller looked panicked when he realized that I didn't have a brain bucket, so he threw in a seasoned and glittery blue open face helmet at no extra charge.
What I brought home was a 1964 or 65 Rupp Grand Prix, with a MC90 mounted on a Margay Safari gearbox. I drove the tires off that thing in a hurry, running up and down the street and around our semi-circular residential driveway. One Saturday morning, around 10am, the older woman across the street literally ran outside in her robe and curlers to shake her finger at me in disgust!
Anyway, I didn't have a lot of cash, nor resources for parts, so the kart was eventually relegated to the shed out back. I left for college and never moved back home, so it was several years until I realized that the kart had been banished to my dad's utility trailer, under a porous tarp. By the time I rescued it around Y2K, it was in sorry shape.
I have been acquiring parts and accumulating knowledge from many of you vintage karters, since the proliferation of the internet. After lurking about at the Oreville VKA event in September, I was finally, (FINALLY!) struck with the urge to dust off that kart project and make it happen. I do not have a lot of photos documenting my project, and it's still got a lot of surface prep and paint in it's future. Its not ready for final assembly, obviously, but...
1) & 2) Here's a mock-up that should stand up as "proof of kart"
3) A little practice with set-up and tuning of a Super 55A saw.
4) Evidence of my field trip to see Mr Stanton in South Carolina.
Thanks to all who have donated their time and efforts to fostering what promises to be a super fun hobby!
Kurt
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So here goes...
I've only joined the VKA recently, but I've been watching the REAR and VKA forums for a long time. I'm not a seasoned karter, but I've owned my Rupp Grand Prix since the summer of 1990, the summer after eighth grade, when I bought it at a garage sale with some extra cash kicked in from my dad. The seller looked panicked when he realized that I didn't have a brain bucket, so he threw in a seasoned and glittery blue open face helmet at no extra charge.
What I brought home was a 1964 or 65 Rupp Grand Prix, with a MC90 mounted on a Margay Safari gearbox. I drove the tires off that thing in a hurry, running up and down the street and around our semi-circular residential driveway. One Saturday morning, around 10am, the older woman across the street literally ran outside in her robe and curlers to shake her finger at me in disgust!
Anyway, I didn't have a lot of cash, nor resources for parts, so the kart was eventually relegated to the shed out back. I left for college and never moved back home, so it was several years until I realized that the kart had been banished to my dad's utility trailer, under a porous tarp. By the time I rescued it around Y2K, it was in sorry shape.
I have been acquiring parts and accumulating knowledge from many of you vintage karters, since the proliferation of the internet. After lurking about at the Oreville VKA event in September, I was finally, (FINALLY!) struck with the urge to dust off that kart project and make it happen. I do not have a lot of photos documenting my project, and it's still got a lot of surface prep and paint in it's future. Its not ready for final assembly, obviously, but...
1) & 2) Here's a mock-up that should stand up as "proof of kart"
3) A little practice with set-up and tuning of a Super 55A saw.
4) Evidence of my field trip to see Mr Stanton in South Carolina.
Thanks to all who have donated their time and efforts to fostering what promises to be a super fun hobby!
Kurt
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