Vintage Go-Kart: The Bug Stinger. Coolest looking ever?

Sales brochure for the vintage Bug Stinger go-kart. For my eyes this is just about the coolest and slickest looking go-kart ever. Back in the day it was a $555.00 kart.

 

Sweet. I bet a vintage Go-Kart forum would love to see it.

 

We're gonna veer way O/T here pretty quickly, but that's just a bit modern for my tastes. I much prefer the late fifties and early sixties stuff, with Carretta being my touchstone for the best of the best...

 

anything that low must have whitewall tires on it to be on the HAMB.

 

Ha, Ha!! Good one!

 

I got my Fox GoBoy in 1960, at the age of 9, nothing has beat that thrill yet!!

We put a live axle in it and hopped up the West Bend 580.

Looks like it could use a little wedge...



Hoop

 

Very cool looking kart, but this is my personal favorite.

 

I'm not a fan of the lay-Down karts but I do know where a few are hanging one went close to 150 around Daytona

 

gotta love Captain Jack !

 

If you look in the old Hot Rod magazines,almost every page has Go-cart ads....

 

Bud Evans: He was on Safari Team used to work for Bug engineerig. Ex.

 

the lead photos in this thread are too modern for my taste,
but I saw a 1924 Red Bug on display at last week's swap meet/car show here in town
now I want to build one for my grand daughter

 

I kinda like the looks of this one.
Ontario speed way 1974

 

Hey Hoop, Was that you in the picture that was the promotional stuff for Fox at the time? Didn't this same picture end up as a painting on Monogram model boxes?

 

you look in the old Hot Rod magazines

 

That was the Model pic, but I am sure I looked like that. Well my Dad had put the live axle in it, and real brakes, not the flappers in the pic.

He really made that West Bend sing, stuffed the crankcase and ported it. Only West Bend that could beat the Mac 6s.

My son took up the sport...too modern for here, but it is a Flathead, I need to find pics of my Dad's Playland Park Ford stocker.

 

Where it all started, the "Nothing Special"

 

Hoop98...where did ya run?

 

Drags Houston and NHRA Divisionals, Motocross Amateur Texas,Louisiana, Circle Track Meyer Speedway, as crew ASA, All-Pro, ARCA all over, Karts for son about 1/2 of the US, that pic was winning in PA, we were from Houston raced all over.

Dad ran Playland, Arrowhead, Mom, was first woman in Tx to flip in a Powder Puff at Playland. And no she wasn't carrying moi

 

That's not vintage. Post #6, is vintage! That's the basic look I grew up with all through the 60's. That low, swoopy stuff is hi-tech modern stuff.

 

This Excalibur is pretty sweet

 

The other thing you can do with an old kart is add some bracing and an XS650 Yamaha engine and take it to El Mirage and have a ton o' fun!

 

I always liked the Margay concept.

 

What my brother and I had. Twin West Bend's had been replaced by a Briggs long before we got it. Certainly not the 'coolest' but it was very cool to us!

 

I have some eye teeth that I would trade for this ......

 

That brought back some memories..........raced a Margay kart in the early seventies, great fun!