My First `Car'
This morning while sitting on the back porch having a cup of coffee with my wife I thought of my very first car for some reason. A soap box derby of sorts. With a wide board, an old automobile steering wheel, a broom stick, wagon wheels and axles, two pulleys, a rope, an orange crate and the use of my granddad’s tools I concocted my first car. I pushed and rode that thing everywhere, even raced others like it.
My dad bought me a Maytag washing machine engine. I tried mounting it on my derby via an old fan belt and a pulley welded to a wagon wheel. This was eons before go carts. It never worked....
I bet some out there have similar stories.
BTW I still have a Track Rabbit go cart that I bought in 1960.
Shadetree
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Son, you will never blow an engine up in high gear.
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