CLUNKBUCKET

On this Independence Day it is time to celebrate the ingenuity that makes this country great. This endurance racing kart was built and driven by Duffy Livingstone, a man considered the father of the modern Go Kart. Like so many other forms of mechanized mayhem that later become motorsport, karting started with castaways and discarded junk combined with a crazy idea. Before there was Go Kart, Livingstone was looking to improve his Ford Model T road racer and increase disdain among Maserati and Ferrari drivers out on corners. Since his buddy Art Engels worked for Curtis Craft, Duffy thought a trip to the Curtis Craft shop might give him some ideas for a new tube chassis car he was thinking about. What Duffy saw up on a bench there changed everything. Art had got a deal on some castaway lawnmower engines, one of which was bolted up to what looked like a smaller than quarter-midget race car. Read the rest of this entry »