{"id":346,"date":"2008-10-14T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2008-10-14T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:26:39","slug":"the-go-cart-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/346","title":{"rendered":"The Go Cart goes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3014\/2942623833_9d54e219ea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About 4 months ago, friends of ours approached Randy with the idea of making a homeschool project out of their 45 year old go cart.\u00c2\u00a0 We have several friends with boys our age, and they&#8217;re all best buds&#8230;and, Joy was anxious to see her childhood go cart run again.\u00c2\u00a0 Randy has a good knowledge of making\u00c2\u00a0broken things work again (he&#8217;s a very hands-on kind &#8216;a guy, can fix just about anything you give him&#8230;yes, ladies, you can be jealous).\u00c2\u00a0 So, it all just fell into place&#8230;the boys and Randy met up at Dirk and Joy&#8217;s house just about every Saturday this summer to work on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Randy taught them about engines and how they work.\u00c2\u00a0 They took it apart, sanded, primed, painted, repaired the fiberglass, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 In Randy&#8217;s words, they did a &#8220;frame off restoration&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like auto shop language to me. :)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3216\/2942623723_3a8bfb9c75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They took the engine almost completely apart, replaced the broken parts, and put it all back together.\u00c2\u00a0 They had to get a little assistance and one extra part from an outside source, but the bulk of the work was done by the guys.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3149\/2942623619_e86d0f3317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday, our boys and two of their friends\u00c2\u00a0got together to take it for a spin.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0All that work sure paid off.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/2942623783_b2bc846d39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the day had an abrupt ending.\u00c2\u00a0 Ethan was driving it, and the steering locked up.\u00c2\u00a0 He hit a fence.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s fine, but the go cart body didn&#8217;t handle it as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Randy said it can be repaired, so no worries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3227\/2942623887_6ea2b87bf2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I guess go cart class isn&#8217;t quite over yet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4 months ago, friends of ours approached Randy with the idea of making a homeschool project out of their 45 year old go cart.\u00c2\u00a0 We have several friends with boys our age, and they&#8217;re all best buds&#8230;and, Joy was anxious to see her childhood go cart run again.\u00c2\u00a0 Randy has a good knowledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}