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jarasan — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:16:45 GMT

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Original Blog Entry: Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?

eddessaknight — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:47:00 GMT

Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?

The ones in Coney Island, Rockaway Park and Long Beach back in the 20's thru to the 50's

Ran on electric .

Had a pole on the back going to a metal electrical charged overhead plate.

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 60 MPH, which is terrifyingly fast in machines with such a short wheelbase.

By the way, the cars are almost Indestructible in accidents!

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