This thread has been a work in progress since I joined the site 2 years ago. It's been a "labor of love" of sorts……a journey back to a time when life was so much simpler. Seemed I never could find the time to put it all together, but with the holidays comes nostalgia…and I felt motivated to finish it up today.
Be warned….it may be boring to those not interested in hearing about my childhood experience…..you may be excused .
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When I joined the site and people saw my user name they must have said “Look at this joker…joins a mini-bike forum and calls himself "KustomKart"..but to the scrawny kid with the unkempt hair growing up in Elizabeth, NJ, the name “Kustom Kart” meant mini-bikes !
Got my first mini bike in 1972…backyard special that soon enough needed parts. Open up the phone book and flip through the yellow pages..(remember them?)….the closest shop listed for parts and supplies is this place called Kustom Kart in Union, NJ. It’s like 5 miles from my house and I have no idea how to get there so I wait for my father to get home that night and start pestering him to take me. He’s not happy but after dinner we pile into the wagon and head over there.
After what seemed like an eternity we turned the corner from Stuyvesant Avenue onto Morris Avenue and there it was....Kustom Kart Shop…the mecca of Mini-Bikes, Go-Karts, …. and all things fun!!
I had never seen anything like it or even dreamed such a place could have existed!! You might see a stray mini-bike or a go-kart parked in some sporting goods store or maybe in front of the local hardware store….but this was an entire building filled with cool stuff.......
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Be warned….it may be boring to those not interested in hearing about my childhood experience…..you may be excused .
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When I joined the site and people saw my user name they must have said “Look at this joker…joins a mini-bike forum and calls himself "KustomKart"..but to the scrawny kid with the unkempt hair growing up in Elizabeth, NJ, the name “Kustom Kart” meant mini-bikes !
Got my first mini bike in 1972…backyard special that soon enough needed parts. Open up the phone book and flip through the yellow pages..(remember them?)….the closest shop listed for parts and supplies is this place called Kustom Kart in Union, NJ. It’s like 5 miles from my house and I have no idea how to get there so I wait for my father to get home that night and start pestering him to take me. He’s not happy but after dinner we pile into the wagon and head over there.
After what seemed like an eternity we turned the corner from Stuyvesant Avenue onto Morris Avenue and there it was....Kustom Kart Shop…the mecca of Mini-Bikes, Go-Karts, …. and all things fun!!
I had never seen anything like it or even dreamed such a place could have existed!! You might see a stray mini-bike or a go-kart parked in some sporting goods store or maybe in front of the local hardware store….but this was an entire building filled with cool stuff.......
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