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Art Ingels


 

Art Ingels (sometimes misspelled as Ingles) is known as 'the father of karting'.

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In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s, he assembled the first go kart out of scrap metal and a surplus West Bend Company two-stroke cycle engine. He tested it in the Rose Bowl parking lot.

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1956 - Kurtis Kraft - Indy - Race car - 1950s - West Bend Company - Two-stroke cycle - Engine - Rose Bowl

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