Where do old Bumper Cars go ???

[GlenPettit 1,717]

Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?

 

  

  

  

 

The ones in Westview Park or Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh or many other amusement parks from around the country in the 50's & 60's. 

 

They ran on electric . 

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

 

Remember driving the bumper cars at amusement parks or

on the Boardwalk, 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 beauties 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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2014 by GlenPettit

[KC9KAS 4,744]

Thanks Glen....The vintage bumper cars were very nice works of art.

Loved to ride them at Santa Claus Land, in Santa Claus Indiana....The 1st theme park in the USA!

Now called Holiday World

Edited March 30, 2014 by KC9KAS

[squonk 43,736]

Now that is just awesome!!!     

[neil 2,410]

Oh how i would just love one of those    

[Ken B 3,189]

I can remember way back in the day riding the bumper cars at Riverside Park in Agawam Mass. when I was a kid. Man what great memories....

[HorseFixer 2,013]

_{Id love to have a couple of those!} 

 

_~Duke