VINTAGE & HISTORIC KARTS OF AUSTRALIA.

Welcome to a site dedicated to the restoration & Demonstration of VINTAGE & HISTORIC KARTS of our past.

Updated the "Hall Of Fame" with new entries

Some new karts in Restorations 2012

Added Numurkah link to Events page

Vintage Practice day @ Lismore

Some photos from Lismore on Dec 10th

Mike Smith has sent some photos and info fro the Road Racing page

Graeme Sutton has aquired a Dino and would like some assistance idenifying the model. Photos and details on Restorations 2011 Page 3

More photos added to Numurkah page 2 and a new Page 3

A couple of Yamaha photos of a KT100 barrel on a rotary valve bottom end.

A slide show of some of the restored twin engined karts currently in use in Aus & NZ

A new page of Contacts in NSW, Vic & Qld

Photos and some background info on Yamaha Rotary Valve Motors

A really good Yamaha Kart for sale via Kartbook

Phil Parkinson's mystery Yamaha motor in What Is It 2

Allan Savins has aquired a Dino in Restorations 2011 Page 3

A few more updates of the Toowoomba event

Details from the Blossom event in NZ

First few photos from events at Toowoomba Qld & Wundowie in WA

A new page with some history of a road race in South Australia in 1961 at Adare Park, Victor Harbour

A couple of new photos of Alaskan Dominic Salvato's "58" Caretta on "From Overseas 2"

Graeme Barwick has some items to sell including his 1972 Deavinson and a BRAND NEW Mac 93 on For Sale - or Wanted

A new page has been added in memory of the late Robert (Bob) Peterson

New Renovations 2011 Page 3 with Graeme Leese's Allkart & Leigh Hunter's Tecno

Added some photos of Rod Williams' almost complete Rainey kart to Renovations 2011 Page 2

Fixed some broken photo links of the Beenleigh Street Race

Max Laybutt is selling his Dragon/Mac45. Details on the Dragon page in For Sale - or Wanted

An article on Greg Brewer's Demon twin has been published on the KartSportNews website

Another update to Renovations 2011 Page 2 with info from Heath Butt and Allan Savins

Updated Renovations 2011 Page 2 with Gary Blank's completed DAP and the progress on Rod Williams' ex Pro Hart kart.

Added a page of ROAD RACE KARTS to "The Beasts"

Some geat photos and info from Mike Smith on a 1959 front engined special in More Memories or Front Engined

Gary Blank need some help identifying which model DAP he has and new member Sandro Cesario would like to know what make of kart he has aquired. See What is it? Page 2

The CIK has released guidelines for Historic karting. Download the document HERE

Photos and event report from NZ on NZ 2011 Events in Event Photos

Some old photos from Mike Smith added to More Memories.

Our friends across the Tasmin have set some details of the Blossom Sprint to be held in Sep.

Graeme Sutton in NZ has provided some info on Tillotson carbs in Engine Info and also requested some help in identifying some carbs in What is it - Page 2

Lithgow 2011 page updated with a report on the event. A few more photos have been added to the Lithgow 2011 Photos page in the Events Photos area. Photos are available from Pams Pix

Some amazing footage from the 1976 World Championship - Fullerton vs Goldstein

John Humphries has provided some photos from Romaine in 1961 and Gary Blank has some early 70's photos from SE Qld. These are on More Memories

A page of photos of Ipswich KC in the 70s added to Old Events

More photos from WARWICK 2011 on the Warwick 2011 pageand some more to come soon.

Tom Manley has sent some kart plans from the early 60's

Info on using electrolosis to clean tanks in Restoration Tips

A page about the amazing DAP T80s modified by John Humphries

Stephen Moxon is looking a left hand stub axle for a Demon X8? Please call him on 0417687326 if you can help as he is trying to get the kart ready for Lithgow.

Some more items added to Magazines. Aussies in Hong Kong '77 & '72 & Japan '78 plus more stuff from '72

Rod Williams has finished the Bantam motor for his Rainey Kart - see Renovations 2011

The AKA has proposed some changes to the wsy that vintage karting in Australia is administered.

Some details and views on the Kartbook forum discussion. This site will be updated later when the situation is clear.

Phil Parkinson is about to order some Mac clutches from the USA. If you want one and wish to share postage contact him on email . More details on Kartbook forum.

TKM and Komet K80 added to Engine Info.

Dominic Salvato of Alaska sent a photo of his "58" Caretta and "61' Cates for OVERSEAS No 2

Some updates and a request for help from Graeme Sutton in NZ in Renovations 2011

Graeme Barwick has made his annual pilgrimage to the Adams track at Riveside California. Photos by Mark McKeddie added to the ADAMS page in Events 2011

Cast chain guards for rotary valve motors available soon from the UK. Advance orders are esssential. See For Sale or Get It

Allan King has started work on his Dino. Check Renovations 2011 for photos of the progress.

More articles from AKR added to Engine Info.

I now have quite a few magazines form the early 80's and will add pages and articles over the next weeks. A couple of articles have been added to Magazines and a document on Rotary & Reed engine maintenance has been added to Engine Info. There is a list of Magazine Contents, Let me know if there is a particular article you would like to see.

Peter Ward has provided some photos. The link to the page has been added to More Memories

Renovations 2011 has been added with Greg Brewer's progress on his Demon twin and Rod Williams great find of a Rainy kart.

DAP Karts

Chris Arnold in the UK is researching the DAP karts used by Aryton Senna in the World Championships. He has created a document which can be accessed HERE. If anyone can add anything please pass it on through mailto:VHKAus@gmail.commailto:VHKAus@gmail.com He would also be interested in any photos from the World Championships of that era.

The report from the '79 Championship shows Robert Hunter 7th in time trials and finishing 10th overall.

We already have some info about Numurkah 2011 in Nov.

Fixed the broken Tamworth 2010 page

The New Year has started and we have 2 new pages.

Ross Chipperfield has provided lots of photos of the Mermaid engines made famous by his parents.

I have been given some magazine extracts by Richard Littler - thanks Richard - I have only processed a few so far. Some are on relevent pages such as The West Team and Golden Valley Kart Club while others are on a dedicated page Magazines

Some new photos added to More Memories inluding Slacks Creek 1965 and quiz time! A photo of a tour to NZ in the 70's. Who are they?

PLANS

Want a vintage kart but can't find one? Why not build one. Here is a set of original plans from 1960. Thanks to Gary Buckley

Oran Park 100 Mile

Race report and some photos from the McCulloch sponsored 100 Mile Race in 1972

HKS

A page of HKS karts added to the Australian Karts secion. I do not have any background info on HKS so please help with some history to mailto:VHKAus@gmail.com

In the near future I intend doing the same for ANS, DPE and Ardill karts

TWINS

Some early photos of twins from 1959 added

What Is It?

A second What Is It Page with a request from Justin Cosgrove in NZ

Ayrton Senna's 79 DAP

What happens when you drag a 30 year old kart out of the shed and test it back to back with one of the latest models? OK so it was not just any kart but Ayrton Senna's 1979/80 DAP. Read what happened on page 20 of the Jan 2010 Go Racing Magazine.

www.goracingmagazine.com/pdf/Go-Racing-Magazine-Jan-2010.pdf to download a 20mb copy of the mag

http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/Go-Racing/goracingjan2010virt/2010013101/ to read online

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Getting into Vintage Karting is really easy....!

Step 1: Get an AKA licence and in the case a "Vintage Licence” will do. Available through the VHKA (email our secretary at the bottom of this page).

Step 2: Join the VHKA. Application form under "VHKA Documents" or available via email from secretary listed at the bottom of this page.

Step 3: Register you Vintage Kart. Application form under "VHKA Documents" or available via email from secretary listed at the bottom of this page.

Step 4: Familiarise yourself with "Vintage Kart Demonstrations" in Chapter 53 of the current AKA Manual. The latest version is under "The New Rules" on this page.

17th Jan 2012

STOLEN

VHKA member Gray Chandler had his garage broken into in Morphetvale SA and had his Arrow A6 with Dap T77 engine stolen. The kart is like brand new and in fact has not been run since being restored. If anyone has any info Please contact Gray on 0417 861 588. The kart is more likely to turn up on a non AKA track as it has no sidepods etc.