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Highest price ever paid for a Fox kart - $22,600
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:44 pm
by Jeff Campbell
Re: Highest sale price ever for a Fox kart
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:48 pm
by mcbob
Hmmmmmm you must have the wrong engines on yours Jeff ....................
Mc Bob.
Re: Highest price ever paid for a Fox kart - $22,600
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:03 am
by Dean Seavers
Bob-
Now a twin Turbonique chainsaw would be mighty impressive!
Dean
Re: Highest price ever paid for a Fox kart - $22,600
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:20 am
by mcbob
Dean Seavers wrote:Bob-
Now a twin Turbonique chainsaw would be mighty impressive!
Dean
Now now don't go giving me ideas i'm silly enough to go try something like that.
Mc Bob.
Re: Highest price ever paid for a Fox kart - $22,600
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:37 am
by Russ Smith
..........................and I thought all the NUTS came from California!
Re: Highest price ever paid for a Fox kart - $22,600
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:55 pm
by ted johnson
Theo would be proud! tJ
Re: Highest price ever paid for a Fox kart - $22,600
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:49 am
by Dan Flanders
One of my favorite web-sites,
http://www.jalopnik.com has a great reader poll called "Nice Price or Crack Pipe"....
In this case, I would have to say Nice Price (although I certainly couldn't/can't afford it). For less than the price of a new Toyota Camry, you've got a truly rare and unique piece of motor sports history...
Realistically, how many NOS Fox twin Turbonique karts are kicking around? Heck what a cool piece of garage art for someone who probably has a couple of high end vintage sports cars tucked away in surgically clean climate controlled garage larger than my house. For a high-end car collector 23k is chump change.
The real tragedy is that the kart will be stashed away and not seen by the general public. It would be great if there was a museum that could permanently display karts and karting ephemera here in the states so that the general public could see and appreciate the contributions karting has made in the broader context of motor sports. I know that Dean's display at the Towe Ford Museum was very well received. Seriously, does anyone have an in road with someone at the Barber museum in Birmingham? That would be a great place to show case a nice collection of karts.
On the downside, if prices increase too much then folks will be less inclined to drive them, which would be a real shame. That is the great thing about the Big One being a non-racing event. You can run your kart in relative safety without fear that some clown is going to take you out diving for corner in a heat race.