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The first generation King Midget was a single-passenger kit designed to resemble a midget racer. The kit included the chassis , axles, steering assembly, springs, instruction manual, plus dimensioned patterns for the sheet metal, all for a cost of $270.00. [ 3 ]
A midget car. Typically, these four-cylinder-engine cars have 300 horsepower (220 kW) to 400 horsepower (300 kW) and weigh 900 pounds (410 kg). [1] [2] The high power and small size of the cars combine to make midget racing quite dangerous; for this reason, modern midget cars are fully equipped with roll cages and other
First, although the King Midget was first offered as either a kit or a completed car, by the time the Model II was in production it was mostly sold as a completed car. I have no records that the Model III was ever offered as a kit, but only as a completed, running model.
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"Buster" flying formation with a Douglas DC-3 A Cassutt at the Reno Air Races Cassutt IIIm. The Cassutt Special is a single-seat sport and racing aircraft designed in the United States in 1951 for Formula One air races.
This is a list of defunct (mainly American) consumer brands which are no longer made and usually no longer mass-marketed to consumers. Brands in this list may still be made, but are only made in modest quantities and/or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item.
Microcars have also been defined as being a "small car, popular in the 1950s, that featured a body offering full weather protection and mechanics often derived from motorcycle technology", [2] though in the 1950s, a trend towards egg-shaped cars with a relatively large ratio of windows to bodywork meant that the affectionate term bubble car was ...
Mel Kenyon (born April 15, 1933, in DeKalb, Illinois) is a former midget car driver. He is known as the "King of the Midgets", [1] "Miraculous Mel" [2] and "Champion of Midget Auto Racing." [3] The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America says "Many consider him to be midget car racing's greatest driver ever." [2]