A goldsmith, a farmer/neighbor, and a pair of daughters: That's what it takes to conceive of and build what is arguably the coolest go-kart of all time. The goldsmith is David Snelling from Hinckley, Illinois. Inspired by dependents Makena and Elisabeth, he built this contraption in two weeks on the floor of his garage so they could have some fun. Somehow, he did it with his wife Barbie's approval.

David built a frame out of 1-inch square tubing as a foundation for a 1941 Briggs and Stratton 1hp washing machine engine, and added a pair of well-used Radio Flyer wagons for the tubs. The farmer who lives across the street made the seats. A pair of Bimba cylinders in the "cab" and another single cylinder under the trailer lifts and lowers the entire rig using liquid Co2 from a 20 ounce bottle mounted below the steering column.

If you noticed the jackshaft already, it runs from a set of chain-driven sprockets to a belt-driven shifter-kart rear axle. The rear hubs are from a tractor and have one-way bearings that act as a differential. The brakes are a combination of modified sprockets used as rotors and brake calipers, also from a shifter kart. The transmission is a five-speed from a John Deere riding lawn mower. Yes, it has five forward gears, he couldn't say what the top speed was. His girls might know.

If you linger around the thing long enough you start to notice the little things like the pull starter, wire wheels from a wheelchair in the front, sprung suspension, exhaust made from a coat rack and countless uses of eBay scores and scrounged parts to make the whole thing work. All of that and it starts on one pull.

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