What Is This $50 Kart?

[qtband]

They are selling 2 karts like this. $50 each. I'm sure it's a concession kart or something, but what's it good for? No engines.

 

[landuse]

It is good for having some fun. Stick a predator on there for $100 and you have a great kart

 

[itsid]

it'd help to have rear wheels to, so add another 60 but yes.. it should be some fun;
it might even look cool if you remove all the safety gear

'sid

 

[qtband]

These things scream "I'm a lousy driver and I hit things!"

 

[Oxymoron]

$50!!!??? I'd buy them both. Even if you never got around to fix them up, you could resell them for more.

 

[qtband]

I'm going to check them out for sure. They are being sold by a metal recycle place. My guess is somebody dropped them off to be recycled and they're trying to make a few bucks over scrap price.

 

[bshinn]

I'd toss $75.00 at the guy for both. Plan on a little more than $100 to power it. All the ones like that I have seen are heavy as hell and sport a Honda GX390. Don't think a 6.5 Predator is going to hack it. Still HF has a motor for it, and it can be a TAG as well, figure about $450 for the motor clutch & chain.

Get a torch and put that thing on a diet & it should be a blast.

Just noticed it's milling the left front spindle. I would make sure you could canabalize one of them to get at least one roller. I doubt you'll find that spindle on the shelf at your average kart shop.The wheels should be fairly easy to source.

Also, IIRC all the ones I've ridden have had converters not clutches on them. So you might want to take that into consideration.

 

[OzFab]

The idea behind the safety gear is they are driven by mostly kids who can't drive...

Another idea is to leave all the bumpers on & use them as bumper cars or maybe even demolition derby cars (wouldn't that be fun ) without doing any damage...

True, it'll cost a few dollars to get them running but, for an initial outlay of $50 each, you can't go wrong...