12-28-2017, 03:02 PM
(11-08-2017, 08:48 PM)Randy Dacus Wrote: Ooops.......I stand corrected, the sellers name is John .....
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Like I said I know nothing......about this old Big "J" or who's selling it......What I do know is......a drag racer friend is coming to invest in my collection .......he was telling me stories about going to the race in Nassau and talking to Duffy
at the old GP Muffler shop......seems the powers that be , back in the day, when Bug and Go Kart were battling it out
....told those people that owned Bugs they could use the GK track.......but Duffy felt bad about this, so he gave my buddy
a GK frame and he switched all the parts from the Bug to the Go Kart......!
But to keep the story in perspective, my buddy found an old Bug Wasp up in Seattle.....to surprise another friend that loved Bugs......that Friend just passed away, so that original Bug is going back to the North West where it belongs .
I can't reveal the New owner, but many of you know him ........so the Welte Bug is now going to my buddy along with my GK 800's......
We both knew John Kaiser the son of the maker of the Alpha Karts, I just learned that John passed away in an accident
several years. So maybe my Alpha Mark 10 will go to my buddy too .
Sorry about the tangent to the original Big J posting.....Ooops .
This is what is so nice about the Vintage karting hobby, more old racers are finding out about it and getting involved after so many years away .
First off,,a Dart J is not known as a Big J kart,,its known as a JUNK kart..LOL..one of the worst handling karts ever made....unique...but thats all you can say for it....
Big Js are Bob Jefferies karts in the later years,,,Early Jefferies were Hancock Lancers, then Lancers , then Rupp Lancers , then Lancer GTs.....and the the Big J (sidewinders)...pretty sure thats the correct order...