“STREET LEGAL” BUMPER CARS
by Mark on May 18, 2010
Would you do 100 MPH in one of these?
Road-legal bumper cars do just that.
Yes, you read that right; these little beasties are street legal. Either
Kawasaki or Honda motorcycle engines for power, and retired vintage
bumper car bodies – transformed into the most awesome form of mini-car we’ve
ever seen.
There’s seven of these little monsters floating around California , and
they’re all the creation of one man, Tom Wright, a gyro-gear loose builder
on 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 Harley engines but rattled like heck: so Tom
replace them with Honda or Kawasaki 750′s … and a couple have been
‘measured’ [not run at] theoretically as capable of 160 MPH which is
terrifyingly fast in machines with such a short wheelbase!
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Posted via email from Mark Hendy
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