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Description
New old stock Briggs & Stratton engine; recent bare metal repaint;
re-upholstered; starts and runs; not driven in anger since being restored
The first Barnard Formula 6 was designed and built by
Tom Barnard for his seven-year-old son to drive, although it would accommodate
an average sized adult at a push too.
Barnard
senior was an experienced racing driver and BRDC member, his 150cc 3.5hp Briggs
& Stratton-powered kart immediately catching the attention of his motor
racing friends, who pressed him to make more for their own sons and daughters to
drive. A properly engineered kart by any standards, it had full bodywork and
looked like a scaled-down Formula 1 car of the day incorporating a safety roll
bar and even a seatbelt.
A small racing series
started at Detling Airfield, quickly growing into what we know today as Formula
6. Barnard took a stand at the 1967 Racing Car Show where the karts were offered
at £185 in kit form, or could be bought ready-constructed for considerably more,
prices that would have acquired some quite juicy full-size machinery at the
time. Some 300 or so are thought to have been sold, although most led a hard
life so survivors are few and far between today.
This example survives after a substantial restoration by our vendor –
an experienced man in such things!
He acquired an
original Briggs and Stratton engine, completely stripped the bodywork and
repainted it, the upholstery has been replaced and although has been started, it
has not been raced……..yet
So much more than a
toy, this represents a piece of British Motor Racing History, although could
equally end up in ones man cave, dining room or showroom
too.
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