Street Legal Bumper Cars

November 1, 2009

STREET LEGAL BUMPER CARS

It’s easy for a gear-head to be discouraged about the state of
the world. 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. 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.