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HARTMAN BLUE STREAK KART
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HARTMAN NUMBERING SYSTEM


Below is some useful information from the VKA website concerning the Hartman numbering system. I would like to credit VKA members Bill Pryor, Larry Brown, Steve O'Hara, Micheal Edick for the information below.

First, locate the part number on one side of the plate that forms the top of the steering hoop. 

This is being provided courtesy of Steve Derksen. It has been 36 years since he began the fabrication of the chassis for John Hartman beginning mid 1972 until December of 1984, so these are his best recollections.

The numbers on the enduro chassis - SD= Steve Derksen, first number=month, second number= year. He did all the enduro chassis.
Sprint chassis - numbers were just serialized i.e 1082, 2157 etc. The sprint chassis were mass produced at a production pipe welding facility by just one welder that produced about one chassis a day along with the production welding. The total number produced was about 500 over the years. 

The story behind the sprint chassis that have the letter prefix (such as TV17) is that Hartman was contracted to supply 50 karts for the NBC TV show " battle of the network stars " but it was cancelled before the karts were delivered. When all sprint chassis were welded and painted, they returned to the shop where Steve supervised 2 people responsible for the assembly. The enduro chassis were not painted unless requested by the customer.

Hartman produced sprint and enduro chassis from 1973 to 1984. 

A list of currently known Hartman Blue Streaks and owners are listed below the picture gallery. The owner list may be out of date as of this listing.






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HARTMAN BLUE STREAK

ID # / Last known owner of the kart:

SPRINT CHASSIS

1973
No 73 Blue Streaks reported or recovered yet.


1974
1056 Brian Shoemaker
1080 Kent Windham
1089 Michael Edick  
1111 Kelly West
1128 Kelly West       
1137 Michael Edick  

1975
2059 Mark Green    

1976
2118 Kelly West      
2155 Steve Civils     
2157 J VanDeusen  

1977
2260 Kelly West
2281 Bill Pryor       
2283 ????
2286 Jack Gesler     

2306 Phil Rockwell 
2324 Jeff May         
2326 Kelly West
2338 Michael Edick
2359 Walt Stearly
2432 Terry Schmitz
2504 Steve Thiel
2532 Ilya Leontovich

1978/79
2556 Michael Edick   
TV14 Randy Gryczkowski
TV17 Steve Civils 
TV25 Nick Badame

ENDURO CHASSIS
**All single right hand unless noted**

KH77 Kelly West
SD78 Dan Flanders
SD78 Jim Guss
SD78 Randy Gryczkowski
SD79 Todd Giles
SD80 Jeff Goldberg
SD80 Randy Gryczkowski
SD81 Randy Gryczkowski
SD82 Randy Gryczkowski (Single LH enduro)
SD82 John Bratton
SD82 Steve O'Hara (Single LH enduro)
SD83 John Bratton
SD83 Randy Gryczkowski (Dual enduro)

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