Our family raced Go-Karts on a local area dirt track thru the last half of the 50’s and into the 60’s. After 1961 when I went off to college, they bought a West Bend Power Bee engine to race. The earlier West Bend 2 cycle motors had 2 intake ports. The new Power Bee had 2 more intake ports added ( under the bolted on covers) . Attached is a pic of an Air Cooled, I think a Starling from California, made, later in the 60’s, that I bought at the Constantine meet in 2016. The powerhead is the same as the Power Bee Go-Kart motor that my family raced. I still had the motor we raced and would see Peter Hunn at our local meets. He said he was looking for a Go-Kart from the 60’s. I found one at an engine show here in WNY for him. I gave him the family motor to use on the Kart. He was working on his “Small Engine” book at the time and included a chapter on the “Power Bee” motor I gave him.
