Tony Bosio, the founder of Tony Kart, passed away in June of 2015. But workshop premises in Prevalle, the original headquarters of the company, are still there. Splendid and immovable, just like the days in which it all started...

For people in their thirties or younger, “Tony Kart” is just a brand, as they say in marketing.

Yet, in the beginning, “Tony Kart” was a nick name. It was how everyone called Antonio Bosio, a brilliant gentleman from the little Italian town of Prevalle. In no time, town folks took to calling him Tony and turned his passion for karts into a sort of last name. Put the two together and you get “Tony Kart”.

Tony, born in 1923, loves mechanics and speed. And he has a gift that goes above and beyond the elementary school diploma that marks the end of his studies.

In the ‘50s, his gift takes shape in the construction of a kart, his first.

The inspiration comes from a photograph from an American magazine. He is confident, because he has already built something similar: the home-made “emergency vehicle” mounted on four Vespa wheels that he uses to help broken-down tractors in the farms around where he lives.

Now, building a kart from scratch is not exactly easy.

First of all, you need a chassis. No problem! Metal tubes, some welding, and there you go.
You also need brakes. Again, said and done: Tony shapes molds, melts aluminum, pours it in to his “shells” and comes up with brake calipers.

And on with the rest: “Tony Kart” turns his three-story shop into an inventor’s lab, where every component is carefully thought out and crafted with painstaking precision, with help from local kids eager to learn a trade.

One of them is ...(keep reading on the “ONCE IN A LIFETIME” TKART Magazine channel)