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06-29-2012, 09:15 PM
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Street Legal Bumper Cars
Check out these Street Legal Bumper Cars in CA. http://gbodyforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=210798
Quote from email I received about these Bumper Cars: "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. I remember driving the bumper cars at amusement parks or a fair, back when I was a kid. They were so much fun..... Well, now what do you do with old Bumper Cars? (check out the license plates!) WHO KNEW? 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 look like a blast and would be great at a Cruise-IN. A friend of mine saw them at a Cruise-In in Escondido, CA when he was visiting CA. Pretty Kool I wish I knew if he sold them and for how much $$$ |
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06-29-2012, 11:55 PM
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my neighbor is about 2/3rd's of the way thru restoring one for the street like that. I had never heard of them being converted to street use until that.
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06-30-2012, 07:07 AM
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That is kinda cool.
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06-30-2012, 07:49 AM
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That's way cool.
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06-30-2012, 08:16 AM
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They look fantastic. Would love to have one for shows. When I was a kid in the 70's the bumper cars still ran on the pole up to the electric plate above. They are also called "Dodgems" around these parts.
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06-30-2012, 08:45 PM
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They were called "Dodgems" around here, as well. I think that might have been the name the manufacturer gave them.
I don't know about driving one of them, particularly in California, I'd be afraid some nut would have a flashback and start running into you.
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07-01-2012, 12:53 PM
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Those are flat out cool!
MIke
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07-01-2012, 12:57 PM
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I saw them at the same car show in Escondido... I was checking out the regular cars and saw a bumper car drive by and had to do a double take! I found a whole group of them parked together. I didn't have my camera but all I can say is that they were awesome.
I may need one. |
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07-01-2012, 01:50 PM
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They are wayyyyyy cool! I would put the upright pole on though! What great kid memories, Long Beach Island, New Jersey in the early to mid 60's!!!!!!!!!
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07-01-2012, 03:57 PM
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07-01-2012, 04:28 PM
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Very cool.
If you put the poles on the back you have to make them give off sparks to keep with tradition!
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07-01-2012, 06:06 PM
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We have a great cruise here. Something different every week.
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07-01-2012, 09:05 PM
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