VINTAGE & HISTORIC KARTS

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Comment by Mike Best 5 hours ago

Margay have started a vintage section with some kart history and also started a shop with a limited - but increasing - number of parts to assist with restoration.

http://www.margay.com/vintage.html

Could be of interest to anyone here with a Margay awaiting restoration - I am looking at you Glen Gray!!

http://www.vintagekart.4t.com/photo_7.html

Comment by Max Laybutt 12 hours ago

Mark / Mike.

Mike thanks for the web site comment, It was a pleasure to get it up and running....AND..... I have suggested to Russell G that if someone would take all the pages of the site....... then do an editing job ............. Then go to print with the result ...... it would sell like hot cakes in Winter????? (Tom M is this a job for you/?) would be a good source of income for our movement???? Gee there really is some very valuable stuff on the site and I agree Mike is doing a marvelous job with it and has certainly improved it heaps.

I guess, Russell Grimson / Merv Savins got it all started with the origonal display at the Coffs over 40's, Graeme Powells added heaps of strength in the early days providing huge numbers to the Demo's we had, and I just tided it up to make it AKA Legal so we would have access to AKA Tracks which was the problem of another of the "Starters" Glenn Gray who did a marvelous job as the origonal Secretary ............. who was one of the origonal 30/40 people that met in the Coffs Scout hall and got the first meeting under way???

And you cant leave out the RODS from down South, they have kept the Numurkah event going and made it a yearly "Must" for a lot of people.

Anyway it is just great to see it improve every week, and now it seems to have settled down to some "Major" events (Numurkah down south, Lithgow in the middle, and Queensland well under way at a number of locations) with the enthusiasm of all it will always be there .................. Everybody gotta feel very proud of their input ................... and like the old Paint add, "Lets Keep on keeping on!!"

Max L.

Comment by Mike Best 20 hours ago

I am quite humbled by the sentiment Mark but agree with Graeme that there should be a very long queue in front of me. I am really just the messenger and picked up the website from Max who had the forethought and determination to get it up and running. If any such accolade is to be considered it should go to those who started this movement.

Comment by graeme leese 22 hours ago

Mark ,

 Whilst I agree completely with you on the awesome results Mike is achieving with the website and the obvious time he is devoting to it and agree he needs to be congratulated. I believe if we are to consider life memberships they should be awarded to the people that got our club off the ground. Without their efforts, phone calls,  mail outs ,time and stubborn determination there would not be the level of Vintage Karting  in this country that we all enjoy. Mike would most definitely be a worthy nomination at a later date. I just think we should thank those that got us to crawl before we thank those that got us running. There are enough people in the club to know who these people are without me mentioning names.

  Of course this all becomes null and void if life membership was never considered in the first place.  

Comment by Mark Mansell 23 hours ago

This goes out to all.........What a great job Mike Best is doing with this web site.

With the vintage movement in Karting still being in it's "embrionic" stage, there is so much to do and as we all gather years so quickly these days can I please offer something for thought.

I would like to nominate Mike Best as a life member.

Who out there would like to second me on this? 

Comment by Mark Mansell yesterday

Just been talking with John Mackenzie, he recons I could mow the entire infield at Lithgow on my warm up lap. Now that makes me think about whether I should use a racing plug or a warm up plug. KLG RL49.............no.........NGK b9ve....oh....who cares. It's all about fun and good memories.

Then again, someone has mentioned something about a VICTA Challenge. Longest kart running or fastest lap??? OK.. if its longest running how many pit stops are allowed? And if fastest lap, then how is this measured? We are all cool with the fact we are not racing, we are demonstrating and practising only..............as I remember all the vintage bike rallies I've been on which have always turned out to be nothing more than an outright race (on the roads mind), Maybe transponders tucked into the top of our leathers? Gotta be better than stop watches. Anyhow doesn't matter, as long as I get the lawn done on the first lap.

Comment by Mark Mansell yesterday

Max, I'm working on the radial carbies now actually.

Comment by Max Laybutt yesterday

Tom,

It needs radial Carburetors or it wont work??

Max L.

Comment by Tom Manley yesterday

Allan, I'm rather worried about a photo sent to me by Mark.M. We don't want any victa cheating at Lithgow. Perhaps a few of you guys could drop by his place and suss out exactly what he's planning to bring.

Tom.

Comment by Allan Savins yesterday

Now where did I put that V8 made of Victa barrels.....

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