Boxster Kart: Insane Lightweight Porsche Roadster

When Dennis Demers decided he wanted a fun, lightweight vehicle that he could strap his mountain bikes to, he bought a wrecked 2002 Porsche Boxster. Months of work with his grinder and welder resulted in the crazy Kart featured here.

[@MLFranklin]

That is really cool.

[@mayneguitar]

What a wild build! I hope we see more crazy Boxster builds in the future as people realize what an extraordinary chassis they are for the money (at least for now).

[@andrewkolansky5348]

Yea that’s why I bought mine. Planning to do something wild once the engine inevitably blows up.

[@jennpearman7459]

Amazing car to ride in. Way to go Dennis. So happy you are getting some recognition for all your hard work.

[@R.J.1]

Dennis. So good. Nice job!

[@stevetheodore_specialtycars]

Very impressive build, and I can say that the fact it now weighs about 2150 pounds is the most impressive part of all. Well done!

[@RobSchlegel]

Would love to see a back to back comparison of this thing and a stock 986.

[@gorehammer1]

Crazy this popped up on my feed. I have been wanting to take on an exo car project and I have been thinking a boxter would be perfect donor for such a project. Around here you can find older ones for less than 10 k and you could probably make a good bit of that back parting it out.

[@HORUS9]

The boxster already rides on rails. I'm sure this is amazing to drive.

[@changlarry]

Well done car! What kind of car battery do you have?

[@motorosso3349]

Cool!

[@caiden915x]

Other popular car enthusiasts need to review and showcase this. This is amazing! Makes me want to go start stripping my near perfect 986 lol! I know I'd never be able to achieve that though!

[@Retromod]

I agree it needs to be more widely seen.

[@surplusstock8778]

I was thinking of cutting the chassis behind the seat and then welding a Ariel atom replica chassis

[@Six6Fit]

As I look for boxer weight reductions I find my goal 🤣 nice car man!

[@javelinadad]

Uhoh. I shouldn't have seen this. It's going to haunt me.

[@C4VETTELT1]

This is the only way I could drive one of those!!! Looks crazy fun. But I'd rather do a vette kart but still awesome!! Lot of work in that thing! Porsche and corvettes don't have a good history!! Lol they don't get along very well!

[@vnigallahoir3523]

How does this have so few views? This is such a neat build and video. BTW maybe just stick with a gopro for internal footage and run the dslr for audio separately and merge the slr audio to the gopro video so you don't ever have focus issues in car.

[@Retromod]

Thanks, glad you liked it. To be honest, this is the one and only time I've had a focusing issue with the Canon that I use. I prefer the video look of the mirrorless camera to the look of a GoPro.

[@vnigallahoir3523]

@@Retromod Yeah the extra depth in lens and color is nice, I've become a fan of dual recording so I at least have some video that is salvageable as sometimes the focus shifts on the A7 I have or something catastrophic happens. What length of lens are you using for those internal shots? Curious now.

[@Thri11seeker]

Its the subs though that make the difference on views or recommended list you have to be popular to get recommended try to find the rotary aw11 video

[@henrylozano7884]

Am going to built my Tahoe 2007 any ideas

[@jronald262]

Built a boxster dune duggy!

[@andrelehman7036]

Any chance you have his insta? Does he post about the car?

[@ivanov-sl1cj]

Я бы соединил рамку лобового стекла и дугу каркаса за сидениемм в верхней части крыши двумя трубами.

[@keldon_champion]

It's not a kart it's an exo-car like the ariel atom, sweet build though.

[@Poorschedriver]

Welp... off to copart I go.

[@queenqutie9236]

Sandrails are back with better and faster cars.

[@x.x..x.x]

The execution of this looks like a brick with blue metal fence posts welded to wheels

[@AdamOpheim]

Feel like they should do their homework. The 217hp base model was a 5.4 0-60. Not 6.5 seconds...

[@adamwaerzeggers7557]

"Even though he's not an engineer, he went to college for engineering." "He built it in his garage" Um...wut?

[@Retromod]

He studied engineering in college, but does not work as an engineer for his career. Does that make sense?

[@VeganRashad]

More like a 996 cart

[@x.x..x.x]

a designer this guy is Not!

[@JohnMillerUSA]

🛠🔩🏆👏👍 First, Retromod, ignore the naysayers and lazy bastards in the comments section who couldn't conceive of, much less build, a street-legal go cart like this. It looks cool, fun, and original. C'mon, everybody, he bought a wrecked Boxster to start with! Retrorod, when on the road you look like you are enjoying the fruition of your hundreds of hours put into this build. I have an old Mazda3 I'm thinking of making into a go cart. I found your video and was inspired!

[@Retromod]

Thanks for watching. Just to be clear this is not my car, just one that I covered.

[@lancraft]

Should have saved himself the trouble and just remove the body panels from a corvette chassis.

[@x.x..x.x]

Wrong color. Poorly executed design, looks stupid.

[@50gary]

You're so wrong IMO

[@kobie451]