Tags: Motorsport Racer, Racing Driver.
Art Ingels (sometimes misspelled as Ingles) is known as ‘the father of karting’.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 cycle engine. It was built in his two-car garage in Echo Park (now FIX Coffee Co) and tested in the Rose Bowl parking lot where it gained hundreds of enthusiasts.