Word: karts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exhaust Pipes & Nail Polish. Entries are divided into twelve classes: Custom Rod Motorcycle, Sports Car, Antique,' Hand Emit, Classic, Restored, Drag Boat. Pick Up. Go Kart and Minnie Bike. The best in each class compete tor two championship trophies: Best Rod and Best Custom. In addition, spectators may vote for "the most popular car of the show"; the car with the most votes in all shows on the circuit wins a 1964 500-XL Ford...
Queen with a reputation for zoom in sports cars back home, was having his woes with the lawnmower-engined buzz bombs. In a regimental race, his kart had no go, and though he leaned professionally into the turns, he wound up, according to one polite observer, "among the last...
...toys below cost. Even venerable F.A.O. Schwartz, "Tiffany of the Toy World," was discounting for the first time in 98 years, had marked some lines down 30%. Surprisingly enough, it was the best toys that often carried the biggest markdowns, e.g., Marx's sturdy, battery-powered go-kart, list-priced at $30 sells for as low as $15. Says the Toy Guidance Council's Melvin Freud: "The retail discounting has stretched the toy dollar 25%. Toys are the biggest bargain in the stores this Christmas...
...foremost exponent of speed, dashing young King Hussein, 24, will try any means of locomotion once. Last week, on an airfield near his capital of Amman, Hussein-looking a little bit like a young Thomas E. Dewey-climbed into one of the latest species of automobiles, a "go kart," a low-center-of-gravity vehicle that can hit speeds of up to 85 m.p.h. Driving the little racer, which affords drivers an illusion of Grand Prix speeds, brought a grin to Hussein, who normally makes time in road-burning sports cars or jets...
...Sports Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...