Amusement Park Bumper Cars... On the Road !

[22dodge]

OK, how many are old enough to remember amusement park bumper cars ?
Cool designs on the body work and a lot of fun....
Ran across a guy by San Diego, Ca, who takes the old bodies, puts them
on a frame with a 750cc Yamaha and Kawasaki motor cycle engines...
He now has 8 of them for his family....

Beats the heck out of a golf cart or even the new energy saver micro cars.
Except for when it rains... But still a cool idea. ‘22

 

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One more image of the original bumper cars.... they were fun.. '22

 

[sixtall]

Those things are cool.

 

[Bonehead]

Very fun toys indeed!

 

[Bonehead]

http://cgi.ebay.com/AMUSEMENT-PARK-...14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

http://cgi.ebay.com/INDOOR-BUMPER-C...14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[donsrods]

Those are VERY cool indeed. I remember riding the bumper cars at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh many times during my youth. The original demolition derby.

Don

 

[Tripper]

WILD!!!

WOW... those are really wild & I find it hard to believe they are street legal... in Calif no less! Guess they're on 1/4 midget frames!? I scour daBay & have *never* seen on for sale... that's probably a *good thing for me!!!

BoB

 

[earthman]

Fun stuff '22! Street rod bumper cars. Thanks for sharing these.

 

[Sam_Fear]

Some great styling on those things. Even if most are imitating something else, there are some great concepts there. I could see some of that stuff getting incorporated into a rat.

 

[likes_2_tinker]

cool stuff thanks for sharing

i gotta get me one

 

[Black Magic]

HaHa O man those are nice I here you Bob I am glade they are not on the bay or I could be in trouble lol.

 

[22dodge]

Fun, but Pricey...

Well, here is the outfit he bought the bumper car from:

http://www.lusseautoscooters.com/

They do have an eBay store
Pricey, they run 10k to 15k restored...
And I believe the fellow has 50k ($50,000.00) in the woody one.
And he has 8 of them.
As cool as they are, I could find a lot of other useful toys for that money.

My friend and next door neighbor for years had one from the Pike in
Long Beach in his living room, completely restored.
My wife and I would always sit in it when we were visiting,
it was just a cool memory of the "old days".
I can't imagine the legal forms involved today to let the public play in something
that you are going to intentionally ram into something else. '22

 

[Black Magic]

That is pretty price not that they are not worth it but it is out of my range but would still be cool to have one.