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[Krazylady]

I am trying to contact anyone who owned any of the Motus karts or who raced with Dud Moseley? I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has contacts or who themselves was part of the motus era.

Thank you and hope to hear from you

[Tim Murray]

When this thread was moved out of the Collectables forum it sank without trace here in the main TNF forum, so this is just to bump it back up again. I know Christine (Krazylady) has seen the existing Motus thread because she's posted in it. With luck someone who might have missed it until now might have some additional info.

Edited by Tim Murray, 06 April 2011 - 08:46.

[DogEarred]

I am trying to contact anyone who owned any of the Motus karts or who raced with Dud Moseley? I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has contacts or who themselves was part of the motus era.

Thank you and hope to hear from you

I personally never had any dealings with Dud, but I do recall an incident during a 250cc kart race at Brands Hatch in about 1972/3.

There were 2 or 3 Motus karts in the race and one of them (not Dud) went sideways at the bottom of Paddock bend, slid over the kerbs, took off about 2 feet and flew directly into the wooden sleepers which were only about 10 yards from the track at that time. He slammed completely side on with a mighty thud. He was taken away & I for one feared the worse. It transpired that although knocked unconcious he was happily basically ok.

I think the extra structure around the sides prevented worse injuries that might have been incurred in one of the conventional karts which had no bodywork & were completely open.
I also wonder whether the smoother underside might have contibuted to the launch in the first place.

I probably still have the programme if you want the names.

Edited by DogEarred, 06 April 2011 - 19:28.