Go-Kart Going Faster Than You May Ever Imagine (video)

Go-karts are most often seen as amusement park rides for kids and those ones will go twenty or thirty miles an hour but it seems much more on a small track.

This example shows what go-karts were like when giants walked the Earth.  The kart is a Margay frame with dual Bm motors on it, each with a displacement of 135cc or 8.2ci and this was the standard in the days of the International Karting Federation.  This one doesn't look so heavily modified as the old C-Open class in which my ol' Dad raced but take a ride and discover how fast it goes.

The intro shows a really immaculate build of a go-kart ... but the music is awful and this part goes until 3:45.  That's when the driver wears an action cam and takes this beast out onto the track.

This ride isn't for that ridiculous drifting for the girls, this is belting it as fast as the machine will go and wheelspin doesn't make speed.  Geared for it, this kart is easily capable of hitting triple-digit speed.

Dave Miller was a graduate student in Davis at the University of California and he became friends with my ol' Dad who loved to take the graduate students out to the racetrack to show them there's a little more to life than biology.  Dave loved it right away and that began a rivalry between the two of them which went on for years.  Dave was a rich kid from San Francisco but, unlike many rich kids, he wasn't a dick and the rivalry was competitive but also great fun.  Those who remember him likely also remember this kart is quite similar to the one he drove except its wider and the motors have been moved somewhat forward.