The low end of the exotic car list:
Old Bumper Cars, Where do They Go?
These are the cars that many of todays
drivers learned how to drive with! Witness, the number of accidents on our
freeways and byways! They must have been sponsored by auto insurance
companies.
The ones in Coney Island and Rockaway Park back in the 20’s thru
to the 50″s ran on electric . They had a pole on the back going to a metal
electrical charged overhead plate.
THESE AREAWESOME!
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?
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.
