HKMSC Family 'go kart' meeting - circa 1968 | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

HKMSC Family 'go kart' meeting - circa 1968

HKMSC Family 'go kart' meeting - circa 1968
Submitted by harryhktc
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Monday, January 1, 1968
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Submitted by David on Fri, 2014-01-10 14:57.

A few years later on the other side of the world, I went through a craze for these with my schoolfriends. Scour the sheds and garages for old pram wheels, scrounge some wood & nails, a bit of string for the steering then off to the hill to race. For reasons lost to the mists of time, we called them "manny-gannies".

The vehicular arms race hit its peak when a friend's dad (who owned a car-repair shop) welded one together out of angle-iron. Hard work pushing it up the hill, but it went back down like a rocket.

Happy days!

David