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hi im back did anyone miss me?
better question does anyone remember me
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whats new in the land of old karts?

I have been trying to make a seat pad for my kart but it is alot harder than I thought
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hey welcome back
thanks its good to be back Ive missed you all
you guys are great

Someone reply to this guy before he gets some kind of a complex and ends up in therapy for the next 5 years. I hate to see him replying to himself on a forum. O.K., I'll do it! Welcome back Keith!!

thank you for saving me from 5 years of mental toil
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actualy I am from strongsville Ohio
I lived on drake road close to prospect graduated in 1979 go Mustangs

Tell us about your karting activities way back when.

my karting history is not very interesting in the early 70's karts were all around me but I could not afford one however I built two of them
one was from hardware store threaded pipe the seat was a metal playground slide cut and bent it was powered by a jacobsen 2 1/2hp ... the second kart was made of wood with foot steering and hand brake and gas controls ... I am sure you are finding all this irrelivant to kart racing but the spirit and interest was there then and still is here today during this era I owned several minibikes then moved on to hot rods now as an adult I am sitting in a room filled with minibike gokart hot rod parts and projects I currently own two karts a 1960-61 capitol kart UMP special sold to me by Mike Clements this kartis very interesting and simular to the moss as the engines sit low and forward of the rear axle of coarse the seat is very forward and it has rack and pinion steering palmini brakes and seat back tank ... this kart is one of two known to still exsist today out of the original 100 made.. I had the privlage to talk to Don Umpberg the originator of this kart he had one but it was stolen many years ago. my other kart is a very modern chassis built by Mike Clements called Cheynne II that has a loop built into the frame to allow flex and a fith wheel that only makes contact in the turns this kart was his prototype test kart and somewhat different than the production model
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am I a racer I guess not but I am very interesed in all forms of motorsports I guess I am more of a collector
Thanks for asking

Hey Keith did you ever get the twin Animals on the UMP going?

I made mounts for them (bolt on of course) and I did mount them on the kart but I didnt want to talk to much about these engines as they are not vintage but they do look great on the kart
THANKS