Is that a Clinton E65?? My first real kart engine in about '64, wish I could find a left and a right now!
Don
Re: thrashing some Blue Bugs at TBO
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:59 am
by ted johnson
Terry's karts were beautiful! They were having a ball. Surely brought back memories of my Pop's '60 Wasp/Mc10. TJ
Re: thrashing some Blue Bugs at TBO
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:06 am
by Terry Sullivan
Don - That is an E65 replica that I made from a Clinton D35 chainsaw. Only a few parts needed to be changed. Here is a picture of a matched set of E65's I had on display.
Terry
Re: thrashing some Blue Bugs at TBO
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:16 am
by Terry Sullivan
Ted,
Thanks for the complement!
I Don't remember if I told you - the Wasp with the MC-10 was my Dad's. It has been in the family since 1959.
It has been raced in the US and Europe, won a Dutch Grand Prix and spent time as a yard kart.
My Dad passed away last December, so I finally got to work and restored it. I wish he could have been there to drive it one more time.
Terry
Re: thrashing some Blue Bugs at TBO
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:10 am
by Jeff Campbell
here is a helmet cam video of me driving my Fox kart with MC5 engine, I pass Terry's Bug karts starting about 2:20 into the video....
Terry, the compliment's well deserved. The '60 Wasp I'm restoring is in memory of my Pop's. When he first got it from Tom Pierson, it had an Mc5 on it, so that's the way we're building it, though I will have to put the wrong brake on it. The orange Scorpion Charlie had at TBO was my Pop's also. He deserves the tribute! TJ