THE St Marys Historic Interest Team all have one interest - vintage karts.
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For the moment, the group consists of about 10 members but there are plans for it to grow and there are ambitions of one day building a kart track on the East Coast.
The team was founded by St Marys residents Reon Johns and Bill Targett after they ventured to a kart meeting in Launceston about 18 months ago.
Now Rick Lohrey, Richard Prebble, Sean and Richard Craighill, Bruce Cornelius and Grant Faulkner have joined up.
"Bill and I over hot dogs decided that we should get into it," he said.
"We trawled through Gumtree and this young kid had an unfinished project on there down in Hobart, so we made a bid.
"We got it really cheap and from there the whole thing has just built up.
"We had a test run a few weeks ago and Bill's went like champion and my kart worked really well in the pits.
"You just don't realise how quick these things are, they are really scary."
A vintage kart is defined by the year it was manufactured.
Vintage karts were built between 1963 to 1969, classics 1970 to 1980 and post-classic 1981 to 1991.
Mr Johns said the St Marys Historic Interest Team was about spending time together working on a subject all members enjoy.
"We don't race, what we do is practise hard," he said.
"As you get older you get faster - well, in your mind anyway.
"We go to Archerville, Burnie, down to Hobart and Smithto, to meet up with other vintage kart owners for test days a few times a year but we want to get a kart track here in St Marys.