n1ke Kart

[ted johnson]

Ted, I'm curious as to what attracted you to duplicate the kart?  Did you play with one way back "in the day"?  It's interesting that it follows the SAE design in the seat bottom.  Or was it the other way around?

Sterling, I was just looking for something unusual to build, and I saw that test article, so I went for it. I think n1ke came before SAE, and there were other karts as well with the hanging seat bottom. Ron Cubel and I did all the frame jigging on his nice jig table, and Ben Herr did all the welding. That pic at Bakersfield was an inauspicious day! I, along with Ron, Louie Figone, Paul Bennett and a couple more, wrestled with the HL307 gas carbs all day long. I finally got it to run maybe a hundred feet before it stopped. I switched back to the alky HL250's after that. Never DID get those 307's to pull fuel properly. TJ