McCulloch engines,, What happened??

[benaslopoke]

In the 60's, I raced go karts and had excellent performance with the Mac engines.. At the time nobody had any competition that could rival their engines.. I got out of racing when the market was taken over by the foreign rotary valve 2 cycles engines and fuel blends.. The Mac engines were amasing in the amount of power produced from such a small package.. Did McCulloch go out of business after Paxton took over or was that the way it happened?? Are they still in business??

Ben

[showbizkid]

They went bankrupt in '99 and a Taiwanese company bought the name. You can buy "McCulloch" chainsaws still, but they ain't what you remember.

[Bob Bryant]

Having recalled some of Robert McCulloch's history of enterprise you may find this site of interest. He was sold a bridge like sometimes mentioned, but he had a plan for it! If you have visited Lake Havasu you have seen it. Notice his wife's maiden name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._McCulloch

[showbizkid]

Notice his wife's maiden name.

Ha! I never knew that! Explains a lot

[benaslopoke]

WOW !!

Learn something everyday..

[SN-60]

To: benaslopoke,----McCulloch kart engines certainly were popular in the sixties (I recall the MC-5, MC-6, MC-10 and MC-20) Sometimes they were set up as twins. Other popular kart engines (at the time)
were the 'West Bend' and the 'Poulon' brands........Great times back then!

[rockinhawk]

last year I picked up an AMF Roadmaster Mo-ped with a McCulloch engine on it. Grandson had a blast with it untill he decided it was too much trouble to keep it running.

[JRoberts]

When we raced go-karts as a kid I can remember McCulloch triples on the back of some karts. Quick? Yes. Too fast? Almost. We couldn't afford the high dollar engines so we ran a 8.5 horsepower Power Products engine. I wasn't as light and fast as some of the others, but it was fun and all the parts came straight from our local Sears store.