But in 1984, all of that started to change. It’s pretty crazy to think about that now, given how widespread these karts are today. Until 1984, Tony Karts could only be found in that tiny Italian town. Raising FundsĪ large part of how Tony could make money was by being a mobile repair service at go-kart races, and Cecco recalls various occasions where they’d pack fruit boxes full of all their tools to make some money in repairs to keep developing new karts back at the workshop. One such man, Cecco Winkart, started working with Tony in 1977, and he’s done many an interview where he described his days working with the man himself.
Learning directly from Tony himself was how the handmade kart chassis and parts were consistently made to such a high quality, and it was these apprentices who would shape the brand going forward. That was how a great deal of costs were kept low, and the true heart of Tony Kart was born. The little kart-making business grew when Antonio started accepting apprentices from around the town, mostly nothing more than 16-year-olds looking to learn a trade. It was here that he figured out how to make brake calipers for the first time, among many other astounding discoveries that are now commonplace on every kart created worldwide. When you can slap together a vehicle out of nothing but spare parts and four Vespa wheels, a go-kart seems pretty easy to envisage!Īfter he made his very first kart, Tony converted his three-story shop where he sold spare parts for farm machinery into an inventor’s lab for go-karts. Part of why he was so confident about his abilities to make a go-kart from nothing but a photograph was because he previously fashioned an emergency repair vehicle to aid broken-down tractors. It’s what happens when everybody in your town starts to know you as Tony Kart! Humble BeginningsĪntonio was far from highly educated, opting to keep his elementary school diploma and simply work on the farms around his town, but he had a great knack for inventing helpful things. His nickname eventually became the branding and company name for these hand-crafted karts. It all started back in 1958 when Antonio “Tony” Bosio saw pictures of makeshift ‘go-karts’ from the United States and tried to recreate them for himself in the tiny Italian town of Prevalle. The iconic Tony Kart name isn’t just a cool and easily-remembered little tagline by any means.
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