Turn back the hands of time. The year was 1956 and Art Ingels was an employee of Kurtis Craft Company, Frank Kurtis’ racecar building operation in Glendale, California. In his spare time, Art welded together a few steel tubes, added four wheels and a small surplus two-cycle West Bend engine, and what would soon become known as a “go-kart” was born.
Get more of the story as told by a couple of the pioneers that were there at the beginning in the June 2008 issue of R&C.