Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?

Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?
 
 
 

The ones in Coney Island and Rockaway Park

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. 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!)

 

 

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!

Thanks Richard