Wanna see my woodie?

oldsledz

oldsledz

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This wooden Go Cart has been sitting out by the road for sale for a couple months along with a 3 wheeler made out of a baja heat bike.
I stopped by a while back but didn't want to pay the price he wanted, I stopped in today and made a offer that was accepted. Did someone post a photo of one a year or so ago? It looks like it may be a kit with plans ti build it your self. It says Marx Toys on the steering wheel. I don't know if they were made to use a engine or if that was someone else's idea. I cleaned the points and put some fresh gas in it and it fired right up.
It has a 2HP Briggs it needs something bigger. Anyone have any info on them?





 
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minibikedude

minibikedude

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#5
Are those screen door returns on the back sides and next to the wooden brake lever. It look to be a old soap box derby car converted to go cart. Someones father and son project from a long time ago. Anyways it has creative engineering put in to it.
 
markus

markus

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very cool, that reminds me of something my friends had when we were little kids in the mid 70's It was very similar to that except no motor. I can remember it had a large enough area on it that we could stuff like 4 (malnutrition-ed skinny white trash) kids onto it and push power it around the neighborhood. One in the driver seat, one right behind and 3 off to each side providing the power. It was rickety little thing, details are fuzzy as I was probably about 6 at the time and could not read yet, so I would not be able to tell you what it said it there were markings on it :smile:

I bought and resold a "Marx toys" friction toy in recently though, it was from the the 50's I believe, I never really did much research on the company.
 
jeep2003

jeep2003

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#11
thats a great road you have there. If i lived on a straight away like that id build some kind of belly tank land speed car. See how fast i could get a stock briggs 5hp to go :)
 
J

junkcollector

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#12
Had one of those units back in the 60's had brackets for spindles and rear axle made out of fabed steel that bolted to 2x4 lumber with 1/4 bolts and nuts had hand operated slip clutch worked good don't know made the kit though
 
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