My grandfather had a couple of these carts with McCulloch model 99 engines. He had a two acre lot on the side of a hill with a gravel/dirt 8 track. I learned how to drift at age 5. I used to get scolded for going too fast. Some of the best memories. Ive also used those early learned driving skills my whole life and never been in an accident.
I wish this didn’t show up in my feed. I had a double engine one from my grandfather. He had re worked the front and rear axles so the cart sat about 1&1/2 inch off the ground. The original engines had been replaced with 5hp Briggs. my neighbor painted it for me a green candy apple with glitter in it. My dad put stops to slow it down but I figured it out. He lost it when he was coming home from work and I passed him in the main road.
Very interesting - especially the end. Just shows you the potential advantages of driving a McCulloch kart. One might get the idea that McCulloch really had something with that shock-absorbing rear end, but I started racing karts in 1962, and by 1963 I was winning races, and I don't recall ever seeing a McCulloch kart. If other karts had problems with vibration, I certainly wasn't aware of it. But maybe if I had been driving a McCulloch kart, I might have been kissed by that gorgeous girl - darn! I missed out!
