Regular gasoline was selling for 26.9 cents a gallon.
CARTERET -- An unidentified youngster gasses up his go kart in Carteret in this photo from the 1960s.
Regular gasoline was selling for 26.9 cents a gallon at the time.
Go karts of the era, like this one, were very often home-built models; the one pictured appears to have once been a soap box derby racer modified with an engine in the rear.
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