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Karting

Rental Karts

April 10, 2010
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I posted one of these photos earlier, but I found others taken at the same time yesterday and thought I’d post the whole collection together. They show my dad and I riding rented go-karts at a track in Fort Worth, Texas, most likely the one that was on University Dr. near the zoo. I suspect [...]

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Karting with Dad

January 25, 2010
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Here’s a photo of my dad and I on rented go-karts, probably around 1968. The track was in Fort Worth, Texas, but I’m not sure which track this is. It’s probably the one that was on University Drive (a little north of the zoo), but their was also, at some point, a track much further [...]

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Go-Karts

August 25, 2009
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Karts, “go-karts”, were huge in the late ’50s and into the ’60s, much like mini-bikes a decade later. This magazine, from June of 1961, is just loaded with advertisements that show how specialized, and competitive, karting had become in less than five years. The gallery below includes many of those ads, both from specialty companies [...]

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