"STREET LEGAL" BUMPER CARS

Would you do 100  MPH in one of these? 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: so 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!

Posted via email from Mark Hendy

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