It’s well documented that karting got its start in the Los Angeles area of Southern California. The first kart was built in late 1956 at an address on Colorado Street in Glendale, California. Most folks involved with vintage karting know that Art Ingles, who worked for Frank Kurtis the famed Indy race car builder of that time, was the gentleman responsible for creating the original kart. Soon the karting craze would spread across the United States of America and eventually the world.
Towards the end of the fifties decade major kart manufacturing companies such as Bug and Go Kart were established in the Los Angeles area. Associated businesses such as Hands, Palmini and Reed, after market suppliers of bolt on karting goodies, came into being at the same time. Southern California and Los Angeles in particular were at the forefront of the karting world in those early days of innovation and development of the miniature racers.
Meanwhile not far behind the ‘Coast’ in matters concerning karting was the Midwest and specifically the Buckeye state which was home to 11 kart manufacturers that advertised their products nationally during the period from 1959 to 1963 and a few that remained operational beyond that time frame. One of those companies that endured in the karting business for over a decade was Rupp Manufacturing makers of the Dart brand of karts, later to change its name to Rupp Industries on becoming a publicly traded company.
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