Mickey Rupp Vintage Karting at New Castle Motorsports Park

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Mickey Rupp attended the June 2010 VIntage Karting Reunion at New Castle Motorsports Park. Mickey is a legend in kart racing, he was the founder of Rupp Industries and a top national level kart driver. Rupp Industries, which existed until the late '70's, is well known for their innovative highly competitive racing karts, snowmobiles, mini-bikes, and motorcycles. Mickey went on to race in the USAC Championship Car series in 1964 and 1965, with many top level finishes, including 6th place at the Indy 500. Today Mickey owns Rupp Marine, a manufacturer of serious sport fishing hardware.
In this video, Mickey can be seen driving a restored Rupp Chaparral with two highly modified West Bend 820 engines. Jeff Brown, the event organizer and former Grand National karting champion, provided Mickey several questions from the crowd in attendance.

[@GO4RIDER_trikelife937]

thank you for this look at Mikey, just awesome! I have a 74' Rupp Centaur, was converted to VW power before I got it,.. been working on getting back on the road,....... soon I hope. thanks again.

[@jbcctv7957]

I knew him when i worked at Mobil. He's a cool dude....

[@williebasford1482]

Micky gave me my kart

[@1960skart]

Thanks, a great KZbin post foxkart61! A remarkable 1965 Indy 500 Rookie Class (R). See who is in the top ten... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Indianapolis_500