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Neighborhood terror – the Rupp Chevy Jr

Written by webmin

The fields at Hershey are lousy with go-karts and mini-bikes every year, but this one in particular caught my eye last fall, with its orange fiberglass body sculptured to look like the 1962 Corvair Monza SS concept car, complete with the turbine-look wheels and concave tail panel. It even had a rear-mounted engine for maximum […]

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Tagged Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Corvair Monza SS, fiberglass cars, go-karts, Hershey, kiddie cars, Rupp, Rupp Chevy Jr, shows, exhibitions and events  
 

Besasie’s bodacious blast – the 130 MPH Excalibur kart

Written by webmin

Quite coincidentally, given the recent SIA Flashback on Brooks Stevens, we recently heard from Dan Flanders of the Vintage Karting Archives regarding his Excalibur Formula Kart Experimental, a one-off kart designed by Stevens and built and raced by Roy Besasie Jr., the son of Stevens’s body builder. Dan wrote:
Ray Sr. formed the bodies for a […]

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Tagged Brooks Stevens, featured posts, go-karts, karting, one-offs and homebuilts, vintage karting  
 
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