God Bless the Broken Road: The Movie Go Karts…

Posted on August 10th, 2016 by GKG... (GoKartGuru)

August 2016 News Letter by Robert Gamble (Go Kart Guru)

Well it has happened, it has been accomplished. The hard work building 5 wood go-karts over the past year, has come to an end and fulfilled its purpose. Its purpose to be showcased as part of a wholesome family entertainment movie called God Bless The Broken Road.

The movie was filmed in early April in the tourist town of Manistee, Michigan. The movie folks were great to work with as they made us feel right at home. The director, Harold Cronk even let us sit in and watch the screen as he was crafting this movie. It was amazing to see the color tints, the film effects already present as he and his diligent crew shot this movie. The lighting made a cold dreary day feel like a summer day with the sun in a full sky. Amazing….is the best word for it.

We were called on hand to help with any possible go kart problems, and obviously to make sure the go karts performed as expected. The perfectionist in me was disappointed as the go karts acted up, which as anyone who works with gokarts knows, nothing is perfect. The go kart for example lost a pad on the go kart brake (which should never happen, but it did…). The go kart brakes worked but sounded horrible. But the more I sat back, I realized it added to the realism and the effect of actually having a homemade go-kart!

That being said there was a go-kart race and as far as I could tell (because I haven’t seen any previews yet) came out spectacularly.

In case you are new to the whole Wood Go-Kart Movie Extravaganza, we (the GoKartGuru.com team) were asked to make five wood go karts for a movie called “God Bless The Broken Road.” This movie is about a distraught wife of a recently killed soldier. The daughter and mother are at odds as the mother tries to find the purpose in all the grief and finds her way through a race car driver/mentor. The go-karts come into play as the daughter tries to find relief and inspiration through making and racing gokarts. Because the mother is dirt poor, the daughter finds a way to make a go kart through an online contact…called the GoKartGuru.com which shows her how to fab up and make her own go-kart out of wood.