Need help with kart ID

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OMB (Old Mini Bike) Warehouse is just a vendor and a pretty good one, in case anyone was wondering. It’s probably just a sticker someone put on the pull start. We used to have DIYGK stickers that fit in the same place. I never got a sticker 😢

I agree, the engine is probably a 212cc Predator. The fuel tank you used is ideal and looks like it was meant for the application.
 
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I can remember Curtis Craft frames for sale in the seventies (I think) and they were high dollar works of art.
You said split axle, one wheel drive. Is it a solid axle with a freewheeling hub on one end, or a missing drive key?
Does your nine year old fit in it? It is beautiful, and it would look great hanging above any man cave/ shop.
Congrats on your steal, Sir!
 
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numscul said:
Yeah I know that's what the foot pegs, hand controls and milk crate are for..... So I can drive it too !

It is for sale and I would be more than willing foam wrap it crate it and ship it as long as you cover the shipping cost.... it's deceptively heavy, If i had to guess it's weight, i would say it's probably around 85 to 90lbs
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Shipping would be a killer to Indiana from Commiefornia.
 
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Sparkwizard said:
I can remember Curtis Craft frames for sale in the seventies (I think) and they were high dollar works of art.
You said split axle, one wheel drive. Is it a solid axle with a freewheeling hub on one end, or a missing drive key?
Does your nine year old fit in it? It is beautiful, and it would look great hanging above any man cave/ shop.
Congrats on your steal, Sir!
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Yeah it's a solid rear axle with a freewheeling hub on the driver side
No my kids are.... lets say above average size for their ages ... in fact my 9 year old is as tall as my wife and I even asked my wife to see if she would fit in it and she told me it would be a cold day in hell before she tried squeezing into it

The thing really is a work of art and it's mind blowing how someone was able to think up ways for all the components to work together as they do

I don't hold on to anything for long.... This is going to be sold to some other lucky person.... I get the most enjoyment out of working on them, building them and restoring them.. especially after the last time I was feeling like a kid and decided to take out my old KX250 shifter kart and ended up doing a one leg donut that made me go rag doll until blacked out g force and woke up after it ran out of gas and I had to push the dang thing home while my neighbors were looking at me like I was some kind of crazy person and my ribs still kinda hurt from the seat refusing to let me bail out like a wussy...
 
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Hellion said:
OMB (Old Mini Bike) Warehouse is just a vendor and a pretty good one, in case anyone was wondering. It’s probably just a sticker someone put on the pull start. We used to have DIYGK stickers that fit in the same place. I never got a sticker :cry:

I agree, the engine is probably a 212cc Predator. The fuel tank you used is ideal and looks like it was meant for the application.
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Thanks it stole it from a different project that i lost interest in because it sucked so I figured I might as well put the parts to good use and it fits right under the fiberglass hood .. I actually collect stickers that I buy from the Ice cream man
 
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numscul said:
Yeah it's a solid rear axle with a freewheeling hub on the driver side..
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I used to think all the real karts and midgets and things of that nature had to have a real live axle, two-wheel drive to be legitimate but the one-wheel drive setup really makes more sense for racing and allows you to turn a whole lot better.

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.. especially after the last time I was feeling like a kid and decided to take out my old KX250 shifter kart and ended up doing a one leg donut that made me go rag doll until blacked out g force and woke up after it ran out of gas and I had to push the dang thing home while my neighbors were looking at me like I was some kind of crazy person and my ribs still kinda hurt from the seat refusing to let me bail out like a wussy...
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Oh dear. 🤯 That was quite descriptive and yet a bit incomprehensible
 
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Hellion said:
I used to think all the real karts and midgets and things of that nature had to have a real live axle, two-wheel drive to be legitimate but the one-wheel drive setup really makes more sense for racing and allows you to turn a whole lot better.



Oh dear. 🤯 That was quite descriptive and yet a bit incomprehensible
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ha ha sorry I get that way when I'm trying to do to many thing at the same time... I wrote that while my oldest son was talking to me about video games

I'll translate what I said
One day about a year ago I took my old KX250 kart out for a spin and when I went to turn around I didn't realize that I had mistakenly ran the throttle cable over the tie rod when it should have been run below the tie rod so when I turned to the left the tie rod pulled the throttle cable full throttle and spun me around so fast that the kart lifted itself up onto one wheel and spun me around like a top and made me go rag doll and I couldn't get out because the seat I had was keeping me from being able to bail out..
I ended up doing so many donuts that it made me black out hanging half out of the go kart until it ran out of gas.... my neighbor said I was stuck half out flapping around like a flag in the wind for at least a minute and a half before it ran out of gas...

Now every time I test drive something all the neighbors come out to watch me hurt myself.....
I'm not even going to tell you about the scooter incident.....
 

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