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My buddy sent me this a couple hours ago. Too Cool. From: chrysler.tnt@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: FW: OLD BUMBER CARS Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:53:34 -0500
Where Do Old Bumper
Cars Go?
The ones in Coney Island
and Rockaway Park back in the 20s thru
to the 50's ran on electric .
Had a pole on the back going to a metal electrical charged overhead plate. THESE
ARE
Remember driving the bumper cars at amusement parks or A fair, don't you? They were so much fun..... Well,
now what do you do
with old Bumper
Cars?
(and 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 were originally powered by two cylinder Harley Davidson Motorcycle engines but they rattled like heck because of the two cylinder Vibration and Tom replaces them with four cylinder 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. By the way, they are almost indestructible in accidents! -- -- Please address private email -- email of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. That is, email your parts/car transactions and negotiations, as well as other personal messages, only to the intended recipient. Do not just press "reply" and send your email to everyone using the general '62-'65 Clubhouse public email address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine-tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! 1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The 1962 to 1965 Mopar Mail List Clubhouse" group. http://groups.google.com/group/1962to1965mopars?hl=en. |
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