where do old bumper cars go? i want one!
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 5:19 pm
Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?
The ones in Coney Island and Rockaway Park back in the 20ÔÇÖs 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 replaced 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!
The ones in Coney Island and Rockaway Park back in the 20ÔÇÖs 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 replaced 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!