MCCulloch Rebuild

[Scott Kneisel]

The prices totally depend on where you are and who you take the frame to. A lot of powder coaters will media blast the old paint off for you. If you replace the pan properly, who's going to know? These things are not classic cars, but mass produced race karts. The value won't change if you do the repairs correctly. Remember, the kart is never going to be worth all that much. It's just a kart, though a decent machine. They were well made, though heavy and relatively inflexible. If you're thinking of value as a restored kart, the 101B is years too new to be proper on an '61 or '62 R1, though it'll make a fun ride. Properly a pair of Mc6's or Mc20's would be the best bet as far as value is concerned. TJ

Hello Ted

I don't think you realize the demand for these rear engine vintage karts and the prices they generate, I've seen one sell recently for $38,000 but that was a twin engine and everything was perfect, check out this site and just type go kart in the search box and you will probably be shocked at what these sell for if you post them in the right place..

https://bringatrailer.com/

Last year we restored an R1 kart  nearly perfect with two beautiful Mc10 engines that I built. Between the engine rebuilds, chrome, blasting, painting and replacing the pan we had about $8K into it. We had sugar plums dancing in our heads on what enormous price we were going to get for it so we put it on Bring a Trailer and it sold for $10750 so we made a profit of less that $3K. Not too bad but certainly not $38....the guys who paid big bucks for those karts at first aren't in the game any more so it is a crap shoot as to what you might get for the kart. The frame looks nice though and a good place to start as it appears original and complete which is half the battle.  Good luck