Art Ingels

Art Ingels (sometimes misspelled as Ingles) is known as 'the father of karting'.[1]

In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s, he assembled the first Go-Kart in history out of scrap metal and a surplus West Bend Company two-stroke engine.[2] It was built in his two-car garage in Echo Park, California, (now FIX Coffee Co), and was tested in the Rose Bowl parking lot, where it gained hundreds of enthusiasts.[3]

See also
  • List of people known as "father" or "mother" of something

References
  1. "Art Ingels Cool Photo". Vintage Karts. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "The very first Kart". Commission Internationale de Karting. Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. "Rose Bowl Karters". Vintage Karts. Retrieved 24 January 2016.


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