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- Thread starter cdownie3
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Kid's name is Johnny Bloom. The whole back story was posted here years ago including pictures of him changing the engine in it but the link no longer works. The kart still exists.
https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/look-what-came-in-the-mail-today.76896/post-672583
This from the web:
9-year-old Johnny Bloom, who burned up Bee-Line Dragway in Phoenix with his wheelstanding kid-sized dragster. Johnny's interest in racing began at the age of 3, when he began accompanying his father J.R. to races. The older Bloom raced a straight-eight, six-carbed A/Fuel Altered Bantam at the time.
When Johnny outgrew his pedal cars, his dad built this mini digger. The frame and cage were half-inch conduit tubing, with a 3 1/2-inch dropped axle. A pair of 1.00x12 Firestones rolled on doll buggy skinnies with wagon slicks in the rear. The side-mounted Clinton two-cycle engine put out 1 1/2 hp. The styling, as you can see, was inspired by an early Chris Karamesines Fuel dragster.
Little Johnny is now an aircraft engineer in Tucson, Arizona. The dragster disappeared for 31 years, but was rediscovered in the late '90s and now hangs in J.R. 's garage, awaiting restoration.
https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/look-what-came-in-the-mail-today.76896/post-672583
This from the web:
9-year-old Johnny Bloom, who burned up Bee-Line Dragway in Phoenix with his wheelstanding kid-sized dragster. Johnny's interest in racing began at the age of 3, when he began accompanying his father J.R. to races. The older Bloom raced a straight-eight, six-carbed A/Fuel Altered Bantam at the time.
When Johnny outgrew his pedal cars, his dad built this mini digger. The frame and cage were half-inch conduit tubing, with a 3 1/2-inch dropped axle. A pair of 1.00x12 Firestones rolled on doll buggy skinnies with wagon slicks in the rear. The side-mounted Clinton two-cycle engine put out 1 1/2 hp. The styling, as you can see, was inspired by an early Chris Karamesines Fuel dragster.
Little Johnny is now an aircraft engineer in Tucson, Arizona. The dragster disappeared for 31 years, but was rediscovered in the late '90s and now hangs in J.R. 's garage, awaiting restoration.