Just when you thought you'd seen it all ...

[ctaylor738]

From an email from a friend ...

STREET LEGAL BUMPER CARS

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 and 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. Doesn't mean we would totally rock one should the opportunity present itself. In fact, we now have only one burning desire, to see these things running a go-kart track with a clown in the drivers seat.

[Graham]

I guess it never rains in Southern California ..

Originally Posted by ctaylor738

From an email from a friend ...

STREET LEGAL BUMPER CARS

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 and 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. Doesn't mean we would totally rock one should the opportunity present itself. In fact, we now have only one burning desire, to see these things running a go-kart track with a clown in the drivers seat.

[cadurning]

Not to hijack the thread but I feel that this goes along with the subject line. While looking at the bumper cars I found this. Some rich guy crashed his Veyron into a lake in Texas.

http://jalopnik.com/5403061/16-million-bugatti-veyron-crashes-into-texas-lake?skyline=true&s=x

[ctaylor738]

These deserve a better look, so I stuck them on Photobucket -

http://s385.photobucket.com/albums/oo296/ctaylor738/Bumper%20Cars/?albumview=slideshow