The ones in Coney Island
and Rockaway Park back in the 20s thru
to the 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 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.
By the way,
they are almost indestructible in
accidents!
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