OGP/Florida
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Tom Luttenbacher
- Posts: 177
- Joined: Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:36 pm
- Vintage Karting items owned: Dart A Bone, Neal, LeeKart, Lancer, GoKart 800's, Simplex, Blitz.
- User Agreement: Yes
- Location: Mio, Mi./Lake Como, FL
OGP/Florida
I spoke with Frank at the Ocala Kart Track today regarding practice/test/tune using our rear engine karts. He stated that the karts are welcome to come over, pay the practice fees, have all day for $35 and change and will not be on the track with sidewinder-modern/shifter road race machines. I am bringing 2 karts down and would like to invite/ask if there might be other vintage karters around North/Central/Anywhere Florida who would like to make it a regular get together for a day possibly once a month November thru May. Contact me or give me your contact info if so and we can make some plans. Tom L
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Joe Drabicki
- Posts: 50
- Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:52 pm
- Vintage Karting items owned: 60 Hoffco Hurricane, 60 Midwest Trackmaster, 69 Blackhawk Poison Arrow
- User Agreement: Yes
Re: OGP/Florida
Hi Tom,
Count me in! I sent you a PM. I will do what I can to get karts to the track.
I try to promote vintage karting to anyone I talk to, either by phone, email or in person. I buy, sell and trade vintage and modern karts and parts. Everyone that asks me what karts I have for sale wants photos and prices. I push for them to buy a vintage kart and join me in the vintage karting activities that are happening or will be going on in the future here in Florida.
Slowly I am getting several guys to restore a vintage kart. As we get karts ready to run, we will be showing them at classic car shows for publicity to grow a local vintage kart club in the Orlando area. The tracks are available here in FL, but I also plan to do some events with track time in large parking lots for publicity reasons. The average person will not be exposed to any type of kart racing when it is held at a kart track. They just don't know the tracks are there because the tracks usually do not advertise to the general public. Doing a kart event in a shopping plaza puts karting where most people will see it. Don't worry, I have done this before as a race director for a major shifterkart organization.
I do some gorilla marketing strategies to put karts in the public's face. I drive through Orlando with a kart on the roof of my car with my phone number. I have people call me a block after I pass them, asking if my kart is for sale...Then I start my sales pitch and educating them. I stop in shopping plazas, go through drive-through restaurant lines, get gas at a convenience store, drive very slowly in front of the doors at Walmart, drive by Toys-R-Us, basically anyplace there are alot of people.
Kind Regards, Joe
Count me in! I sent you a PM. I will do what I can to get karts to the track.
I try to promote vintage karting to anyone I talk to, either by phone, email or in person. I buy, sell and trade vintage and modern karts and parts. Everyone that asks me what karts I have for sale wants photos and prices. I push for them to buy a vintage kart and join me in the vintage karting activities that are happening or will be going on in the future here in Florida.
Slowly I am getting several guys to restore a vintage kart. As we get karts ready to run, we will be showing them at classic car shows for publicity to grow a local vintage kart club in the Orlando area. The tracks are available here in FL, but I also plan to do some events with track time in large parking lots for publicity reasons. The average person will not be exposed to any type of kart racing when it is held at a kart track. They just don't know the tracks are there because the tracks usually do not advertise to the general public. Doing a kart event in a shopping plaza puts karting where most people will see it. Don't worry, I have done this before as a race director for a major shifterkart organization.
I do some gorilla marketing strategies to put karts in the public's face. I drive through Orlando with a kart on the roof of my car with my phone number. I have people call me a block after I pass them, asking if my kart is for sale...Then I start my sales pitch and educating them. I stop in shopping plazas, go through drive-through restaurant lines, get gas at a convenience store, drive very slowly in front of the doors at Walmart, drive by Toys-R-Us, basically anyplace there are alot of people.
Kind Regards, Joe