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/
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.
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.
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!
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!!!
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... Plans taken from a 1960 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. More here http://www.dynamitedave.com/gokarts.html
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!
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
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.
my daughter and I raced soap box derby the last 3 summers go figure shes retired at 13 outgrew the car