bumper cars

Where Do

Old Bumper Cars Go?

The ones

in Coney Island and Rockaway Park back in the 20’s thru tthe 50's ran

on electric .

Had a pole on the back going to a metal electrical

charged overhead plate.

THESE

ARE

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 Bumper Cars?

(and

check out the license plates!)

WHO

KNEW?

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 David son

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.

By the

way, they are almost indestructible in accidents!



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Never seen anything like this.

LOL...they LIVE!!!

Probably don't wanna try and play bumper cars with the other cars on the road, or you might be challenged by some truck. Then you'll be looking for your head.

Pretty cool idea! I use to love riding the bumper cars.

In today's litigious society an owner of old style bumper car rides would be put out of business in their first day of operation.

Jim

I would like to make a sidecar from one of them.

We still have them here. Not as purty as the one pictured but they still have the "antenna" at the rear that gets the electricity from the overhead wire mesh.