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Hot Rod Go Cart

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by hifiguytn, Jan 28, 2008.

  1. invizibletouch
    Joined: Jan 17, 2008
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    invizibletouch
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    from Mobile, AL

    Build them all the time. Got too many of them at the moment! Here's some links I refer to all the time:

    http://karting.4cycle.com/index.php?
    http://www.diygokarts.com/
     
  2. Pistnbroke
    Joined: Jan 30, 2008
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    Built this for my 2 year old granddaughter, it is a blast and pulls my 200 lb fat ass around and break neck speeds as well. It has a scooter motor and home built frame and rack-n- pinion steering.
     

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  3. Pistnbroke
    Joined: Jan 30, 2008
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    It made it to the hunnertcar last year we had a blast.
     
  4. Bent
    Joined: Aug 30, 2007
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    Bent
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    from Canada

    Here's a couple more recent pics of the RPU my Dad built for my son. It's a work in progress but my son is having a blast with it so work on it is slow.
     

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  5. mrsinister
    Joined: Sep 5, 2007
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    check out the shoppingcart we built awhile ago
     

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  6. HOT ROD DAVE
    Joined: Jan 4, 2008
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    HOT ROD DAVE
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    those are some cool looking ideas
     
  7. cool thread, im gonna build a small rpu with a 1200 harley motor I have sitting around.
     
  8. JAYNE COBB
    Joined: Feb 19, 2008
    Posts: 146

    JAYNE COBB
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    from Wichita Ks

    Pistnbroke, Where the piss did you come up with that body on the cart?!?!?!?! That would be fuckin pimp to find something like that for my sons cart!
     
  9. I have one I rebuilt for my son 8 years ago but that is not the reason I am posting.
    The guy I bought the frame from had put it on a shelf because his grand daughter got her hair caught in the Torq-A-Verter and lost a big patch of her scalp!!

    A friend of mine told me last month his niece had the same thing happen to her and lost almost her whole scalp!!!!

    Build them safe!!!

    Oh and the Torq-A-Verter or whatever the hell it is called is the way to make some major lowend pull and still have it on the top end,,,, try 30MPH with my 150lb ass in it!!!

    Have fun!!!
     
  10. Gerg
    Joined: Feb 27, 2006
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    When i was younger we cut the body off of a dodge omni it was kind of a go-cart after that :)
     
  11. pushrod_mike
    Joined: Aug 22, 2006
    Posts: 672

    pushrod_mike
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    from Austin TX

    Here is the one I built for my son Buddy ... I know its fiberglass but he likes it.
     

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  12. That ROCKS man!!! Where did you get the glass shell????
     
  13. FoMoCoPower
    Joined: Feb 2, 2007
    Posts: 2,490

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  14. jalopyshots
    Joined: Nov 20, 2005
    Posts: 440

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    Here is one I have been working on forever. I built the frame. It has recessed seating. I have a 450cc motorcycle engine for it. It will have rack and pinion steering, disc brakes and 25" ATV tires. I have newer pics somewhere...

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    Plans taken from a 1960 issue of Mechanix Illustrated.
    More here
    http://www.dynamitedave.com/gokarts.html

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  15. LarzBahrs
    Joined: Apr 11, 2009
    Posts: 759

    LarzBahrs
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    from Sacramento

    I know im more than a year late but whats the story on that little dragster fomoco? Thats the first time ive ever seen a fed style mini dragster!
     
  16. carwashsteve
    Joined: Aug 16, 2011
    Posts: 1

    carwashsteve
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    hey guys this is my "hot rod go cart" its a go cart me and my dad made based off of a 1929 ford roadster pick-up
    [​IMG][​IMG]
     
  17. Don't be concerned about it being fiberglass. If fiberglass was good enough for Ed " Big Daddy " Roth, it should be good enough for these types. Little Buddy should come first not a bunch of second rate critics.
     
  18. Great stuff here. But I would not expect anything less of the HAMB.
     
  19. badshifter
    Joined: Apr 28, 2006
    Posts: 3,535

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    It's a 3 year old post. I'm guessin little buddy does not fit in the cart anymore.
     
  20. derbydad276
    Joined: May 29, 2011
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    my daughter and I raced soap box derby the last 3 summers
    go figure shes retired at 13 outgrew the car
     

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