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Title: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: UTE 701 on April 30, 2012, 06:35:12 PM

Only In America ....

 Remember driving the bumper cars at amusement parks  or a fair, don't you? 

They were so much  fun.....

Well, now  what do you do with old amusement park Bumper  Cars?

(and check  out the license plates!) ............

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b1.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b2.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b3.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b4.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b5.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b6.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b7.jpg)

(http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae110/shootnrun_photos/Bumper%20cars/b8.jpg)

Yes,   you read that right; these little beasties are  street legal.

They  run on  either Kawasaki or Honda motorcycle  engines and co-opt vintage  bumper car  bodies
into the most awesome form of mini-car  we've seen in too long.  There are seven of  these little 
monsters floating around California and they're all the creation of one man, Tom Wright, a builder
in the outskirts of San Diego who figured the leftovers of the Long Beach Pike amusement park
needed a more dignified end than the trash  heap.

They  were originally powered by two cylinder Harley Davidson
Motorcycle engines but they rattled like heck because of the two cylinder
Vibration and Tom replaces them with four cylinder Honda or Kawasaki 750's
And a couple have been measured as capable of 160  MPH, which is terrifyingly fast in machines
with such a short wheelbase.   

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: cancan on April 30, 2012, 06:41:25 PM

do they come with matching camper trailer

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: chisel on April 30, 2012, 08:01:01 PM

Looks like the guy in the last shot might have eaten the rest of the car :-)

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: rodsswag on April 30, 2012, 08:03:14 PM

Great to see their not in land fill
 :cheers:

Rod....

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: Tjupurula on April 30, 2012, 09:02:25 PM

Now they look like theycould be fun... ;D
Tjupurula

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: Sicilianmama on April 30, 2012, 09:04:36 PM

Awesome!

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: Matto on May 01, 2012, 10:28:54 AM

That is fantastic. I want one. Heck - I want a whole fleet of them.

Awesome work. There's some clever people out there.

Cheers!
Matto :)

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: noel_w on May 01, 2012, 11:21:28 AM

They would make great hire cars for somewhere like the Gold Coast.

Title: Re: Are these the Coolest cars in town ?
Post by: Mallory Black on May 01, 2012, 06:43:13 PM

could build a real car for the money but yes that's not the point