<VV> Fwd: Old Bumper cars

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

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 From: fierocruiser at yahoo.com
To: rbenanddeb at aol.com
Sent: 2/23/2010  9:12:14 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: Old Bumper cars



 
 
These are so  cute I'd love to own one myself!!! (and they are all from 
Calif., from  the old Long Beach Pike!)
 
 
 
What do you do  with old Bumper Cars?
 












 

 
 
It's easy for a gear-head to be  discouraged about the state of the world, 
especially in times of Carpocalypse and Cash for  Clunkers. But occasionally 
a bright light of awesome renews the spirit.  Road-legal bumper cars do 
just that. 
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's 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 
in California needed a more dignified end than  the trash heap. 
They were originally powered by  Harley motors but they rattled like hell 
and Tom replaced them with  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. 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.

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