Vintage 1/4 midget

[NorthEastMetal]

Picked this one up today, a race 1959 Orbit made right here in Connecticut. Missing rear axle but we have some ideas for that. Another winter project.

 

[supernova]

That's a fantastic find!:thumbsup:

 

[ezdoesit]

Picked this one up today, a race 1959 Orbit made right here in Connecticut. Missing rear axle but we have some ideas for that. Another winter project.

Great find. That's pretty cool looking. I could just see myself with that, racing around in our City, with the Cops right on my tail. :laugh: :thumbsup: :biggrin:

 

[jeep2003]

sweet are you going to redo that sweet paintjob? Show some pics of that 240 looks good

 

[Randy]

Thats nice! We raced them up until '79

 

[jagtek]

Thats a great old pic. :thumbsup:

 

[delray]

nice project to have:thumbsup:
heres some vintage midgets/gokarts to look at:smile:

this one has a magtag engine on it. real old school setup

 

[Randy]

I like the Maytag one. Very nice! It reminds me of a High Boy roadster. I have some cool pics from back in the 70-80's when dad and I would go to the old timers races. The early dirt cars are so cool.:thumbsup:

 

[korndog]

3HP Briggs on those; right? I think they still running that engine. Haven't Googled it though so I could be years behind.

 

[Randy]

3HP Briggs on those; right? I think they still running that engine. Haven't Googled it though so I could be years behind.

Connies up until the 90's believe it or not. Now I think they run Honda's. That's in the N.E. I guess elsewhere the may have ran different stuff.

 

[wayne]

when we used to run in pa we needed to have rollbars,but thats good,when
randy was 5 or 6 in in novice class, a 16 yr old class A guy hit randy in the
back,the kid and his super fast midget went up and over the top of randy
and down on the front,when the safty crew and i got to randy to see if he
was ok, all randy sade was GET ME THE HE.. out of this car,randy would
not get back in it that night. !!

 

[NorthEastMetal]

Thanks guys. Back in 1965-66 I raced a Kurtis and an older Luther 1/4 midget out of Hayward, Sacramento and Baylands. This old Orbit brings back some great memories. Yes, the plan is to replicate the paint scheme. The front axle beam is aluminum.

 

[wayne]

its realy neat-neat-neat :thumbsup: :thumbsup::smile::smile:

 

[delray]

post some pictures...........when go to restore it.:thumbsup:

 

[wayne]

that would be realy nice,i am going to lock the thred so i can follow it,
thanks,:thumbsup::smile:

 

[grindking]

this may be a rude question & ya dont have to answer but how much did ya pay for something like that???
nice find how fun

 

[kirk]

Plans for the Maytag powered car have been available on Ebay. They were first published in the May 1938 issue of Modern Mechanix.

 

[waywardwind]

Looks like a great project!! Please post your progess!!!

 

[chainsaw]

I always raced karts but I love the look of the 1/4 midgets. Had one back in the 80's but I was always to tall to fit in them.

 

[wayne]

dont feel bad if you were to tall, i was to fat, lol:doah::laugh: