My recent Blitz kart purchased

[Randy Dacus]

It's so rare these days to find a Vintage machine still intact as raced .

I would just refresh it for phase one.

I think you'll be seeing more and more Vintage Karts being run just cleaned up enough to be runners, since we already have trailer queens......that are just too nice to compete with .

Notice Terry Ives is competing with a runner Dart Kart......across the nation this summer.....that's what you would see back in time.....they weren't pretty, but they were raced until they were worn out......it's amazing to find a true Vintage kart that spent a lot of time at races.

Most we find were not raced if at all or very little since many of the early tracks were on land that had more value when built on..... so with few tracks available the old karts saw little use . The old two strokes didn't run when the next user came along, so the fix was a running four stroke ...so then we had a yard cart runner.....

So back to the question.....freshen or restore ?   It all comes down to what is the most fun for the person that acquires these old machines.....for some it more fun to make them beautiful and for others it's getting them out to an event and running.......or .....  for some it's both