The Predator is a great engine for a budget go-kart build, but it isn’t exactly period correct. The bottle opener grille would be at the perfect angle to crack open a bottle with the kart hanging on the wall from its rear axle.

Our best guess is that the previous owner customized this two-seater to hang on the wall of their shop when it wasn’t zipping around the dragstrip. There are lots of custom touches and modification that were clearly added at a later time, more on those in a moment, and chips in the gold metal flake show the bright red paint that is commonly seen on go-karts. They assumed the previous owner custom built it, but we are fairly certain this was a manufactured kart, the welds, frame construction, and engine plate are extremely precise. The seller bought it in California prior to moving here and then it just sat until they decided to sell it. They fired up the newer Predator 212 engine and we took it for a spin. Once we arrived at the seller’s home and they pulled it out of their garage, we knew we would be leaving there with it in the back of Jesse’s Volvo wagon.

When this kart popped up on craigslist, we thought it looked too cool to not at least go look at. Once we realized that the empty parking lot next door was a great test track for our motorcycles, the logical thing to do was to go out and buy a go-kart! And here is what we bought, well the first one at least. Well, this is strangely where they sent us, to a go-kart! We have long wanted to own our very own karts, but it didn’t really make sense when we didn’t have anywhere to drive them. A while back, we showed you our Honda CT70s that we purchased and I made mention in that article that they sent us down a rabbit hole.

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