Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Recycled Bumper Cars

 

What  do you do with old Bumper Cars?

 

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WHO  KNEW?

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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!

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