THERE REALLY IS SOME VERY VERY OLD MOTORS.

Long before the "Specific" Go Kart motors appeared in our sport, some of our ingenious engineers went to work on our humble backyard lawn mower motors, Victa's, Villers, Hurricanes, and a variety of other readily available 2 stroke engines.

I know that some of our members are working on duplicates of some of the older motors, so Let's have some information guys??

VHKA Secretary, Glenn Gray is a very enthusiastic VICTA Fan and his reed valved victa has seen many many demonstrations at VHKA club meetings.

We have all seen the supberb resoration of Graeme BARWICKS Victa Sports Kart, the engine is "AS WAS" at that time.

John GOODE, sent in these photos of an incredible piece of engineering from our past.

Motor was engineered and built by Mark MANSELL, is mounted on a Continental Chassis and with a bit of luck we may see Mark and the machine in action at one of our VHKA Meetings soon??

John McKenzie sent in the following photos of his "Reed" VICTA, all very interesting ??

Were these things ever raced?? I would have to admit that I have never seen one run in competition ?? How did they GO ??? What problems did they Have?? etc etc.