Where there any rear engine karts with Italian engines?

[Chris Marchand]

I was basically outta karting after the summer of 66 . I missed the boat on the sidewinder stuff / foreign engines because cars and girls suddenly were more interesting than karting ! ha ha ha.
Fifty years later I stumbled on the Vintage events and wow, they had these things with the engines under your elbow.Plus they were on some kinda sticky tires and were real damn fast !!!!!