stuart in mn wrote: If you go back and look at pictures from the dawn of karting (late 1950s) that's how many people carried them around - either on the roof, or inside their '59 Impala station wagons.
Thats so funny because thats what we used to do! My dad and I would put my car in the back of my moms Chevy wagon to get it to the track!! (with the tailgate down)This thing weighed a LOT more than the new Karts! The flat Kart I have now has got to be at least 50-75 lbs less.
In reply to Feedyurhed:
Point we were only lifting it waist high not to the top of the car, but with the riht friend you only need to get it to shoulder height then walk on either side of the car. Yes, more friends makes it easier, but two can do it.
Totally Grassroots!!!
Per Schroeder wrote: Grassroots all the way. With a capital G. Hint: if that had a GRM sticker on it and was sent in to David in high res, it would be in the magazine.
Crap! I had my GRM T-shirt on today too!
Hillbilly would be having you driving three kids in the back seat and the fourth one on top..... Bonus points if he has no helmet!
Lesley wrote: Absolutely grassroots. If it was a deer, it would be hillbilly.
OMG I followed a riced out Civic sedan with a fart can and a dead deer in the trunk a year or ago, I couldn't stop laughing at them
If that were a newer civic I'd say I know who you are and where you live. Also that it was Grassroots and Redneck. LOL 
wait a second....Crazy Eddie did you get a different red Civic??? 
Grassroots. I've seen city-slickers put their auto-x tires up there.
This is hillbillly:
That's like saying this is hillbilly:
That is a rad kart carrier--far from hillbilly.
Bonus points for being an Si.
That's just right in the sweet spot. Like a Formula 1 car: all the essentials, but nothing but the essentials!
I love it!
David
I was at a Ducks Unlimited Show and saw one of these: 
They said they could make them large enough to drive a Jeep CJ on to it or a hand full of atvs depending on the size, or a duck boat. Made in Minnesota. Price was not grassroots however, but was available to the public.
Kart on Civic: 100% grassroots 
Thanks guys. We've transported the kart to two autocrosses this way, and I always get looks on the freeway, which is what lead to asking. I am proud to be grassroots, but embarrased to be hillbilly (no offense hillbilly's). Now I feel better, because it seems most see it as a grassroots thing, and some even think it's cool (I did, but didn't want to say that)!
I actually have a truck, but it gets lousy gas mileage and no radio, so this seemed like a better option. My sons and I are going to do a lot of work on the Civic over the winter, so hopefully next year they can run the kart and I'll run the car.
friedgreencorrado wrote: Grassroots. I've seen city-slickers put their auto-x tires up there. This is hillbillly:
I went to high school with a kid who's family built that. or one just like it.
Silver Lake Sand Dunes attracts a lot of odd material
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GnBvpFnzA
Civic/kart combo: totally Grassroots. He's got a Champ Car sticker in the rear quarter window!
totally grassroots....totally bitchin'
bravenrace wrote: I am proud to be grassroots, but embarrased to be hillbilly (no offense hillbilly's).
There's no lumber involved. It couldn't be hillbilly.
Now you know: Get a GRM sticker, stick it on, take another pic...and be famous!
that ain't hillbilly...this is hillbilly...
splitime wrote:
Yup, that's hillbilly.
bravenrace wrote: Thanks guys. We've transported the kart to two autocrosses this way, and I always get looks on the freeway, which is what lead to asking.
Who's looking? Are they "civilians" who aren't enthusiasts in the first place? Berkeley them. Are they "poseurs" in their tarted-up showcars that wouldn't know understeer or oversteer until it put them in the fence? Flip them off in seven different languages.
http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/03/foreign-fingers.html
bravenrace wrote: I am proud to be grassroots, but embarrased to be hillbilly (no offense hillbilly's).
Dang, and I thought we Southerners worried too much about our rural culture. I always thought someone in the Midwest would just throw the thing on the roof, and give seven different "fingers" to anybody who had a problem with it...
bravenrace wrote: Now I feel better, because it seems most see it as a grassroots thing, and some even think it's cool (I did, but didn't want to say that)! I actually have a truck, but it gets lousy gas mileage and no radio, so this seemed like a better option. My sons and I are going to do a lot of work on the Civic over the winter, so hopefully next year they can run the kart and I'll run the car.
That would be seriously cool. How old are your sons? Here in Atlanta, SCCA lets the kids run the same course as the parents, if they're young enough.
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