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What do you do with Old Bumber Cars?

Postby Stott69 » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:56 pm

What do you do with Old Bumper Cars?

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What do you do with old Bumper Cars?


Occasionally a bright light of awesome renews the spirit. Street-legal bumper cars do just that.



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. He’s 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 Harley motors but they rattled a lot and Tom replaces them with 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.
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Postby duddley » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:49 pm

awesome!
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Postby DeeCee » Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:45 pm

reminds me of the cupcake cars for some reason..
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Postby 85AW20v » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:42 pm

That orange one reminds me of a Kubota tractor - especially the rims :)
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Postby Mad Murphy » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:30 am

That's awesome! Street legal, even better!
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Re: What do you do with Old Bumber Cars?

Postby Dell'Orto » Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:25 pm

I think people are missing the main point here....

and a couple have been measured as capable of 160 MPH


WTF? Thats insane, 250k's in a thing the size of a shoebox. Keen for test drives :lol:
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