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Part of what drives me today is that when I bugged my dad for a kart in 1959 and '60, he pointed at an old Bolens Deluxe lawn mower in the shed and remarked: "there is your hot rod (kart), now go build it.......................
I had never built anything except model airplanes.
The most ironic part to all this was there were cool factory built karts all over my neighborhood. Jon P had a Sears Racer Kart, Tommy S and his sister had a Bug and a Putt Nik Leo. My cousin had a Putt Nik. The twins up the street had a pair of matching Speed Mobiles (those probably don't count do they?). But in the end, my home built, double ugly, wagon steering contraption was the last one running.
Gee do I wish I hadn't thrown those Sears bought wheels and that drive plate with Briggs engine and jackshaft in the dump. I am on a hunt for a Bolens Deluxe to re-create my childhood "masterpiece."
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