Some new company is ready to make bumpercars street ready and presumeably sell them... but they didn't have a website listed, just an email

If I hear back from my email to them I'll post it for your use. The information card on the windshield said "annonymous" and Boulder City Arizona.

If you like the bumper car idea, and want to see the Tom Wright's fleet: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/update-on-bumpercars.html

3 models of the Custer Car, tiny, simple, and pretty much a go cart / county fair bumper car

Notice how the first and second black and white photo are the same car as this color photo I took of a Coney Island bumper car, just a small bumper addition difference

I think I've posted all three of these photos (found on http://www.atomicantiques.com/) before but seperately, not realizing that they were Custer Cars

Levitt Custer was inventive, and 1st awarded a patent in 1912 at the age of 24, for his Statoscope which registered the rise and fall of an aircraft. Approved and preferred over the competition by the Army and Navy it was Levitt's financial and professional stepping stone into business and creative success.

Custer had been working out of the old barn behind his home until 1916, that's when he decided to start his own company and had a four-story brick building constructed, on the second floor became an oceanarium, on the fourth floor he made the first indoor miniature golf course.

About 1925, he'd developed the Custer Park Car as an as an amusement park ride, the car was battery-operated and since it could be used on any track, it was immediately popular with amusement park operators who realized they could capitalize on the national craze for amusement parks by converting any vacant lot into a Custer Car Speedway.

from: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/11/rare-historical-automotive-jem.html

Bumper cars

Top two photos are from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=920

I often come across photos that I add to posts with similar items... but this time I'll just post the new stuff and links to where they would go

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=weasel

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/photos-of-unusual-from-days-gone-by.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/inspection-cars-for-railroad-inspectors.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/few-more-from-shorpy.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Disney

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/chuck-yeager-american-hero-drove-hot.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-time-super-sport-was-ever-applied.html

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSS0LasbY4q5k0VNfVQq3cVDPc4U5dHQ9DgRRpoA4mt6oHTi0N1mH2RX3njFW3Fn5F6QfA-VqUiqqwmE5CWyhc1RQ7ydjPgldQqqDW-on2u15XpbUERiGo13v8Vo7xX0bVc99wL8Xxup0/s1600/1.jpg

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-wheel-trailer-trailcar-by-allstate.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/ms-linda-and-damn-big-shifter.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/ms-hurst-linda-vaughn-and-chrysler-300.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/dealership-photos-from-20s-through-60s.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/11/rare-historical-automotive-jem.html

All those labels under these posts, and in the long column (about 1000) are there to help me, and you, find the stuff you are looking for. They sure help me find the things I recall having posted before, so I can add photos like these to the posts I want them in, or want to let you know where you can find similar things.

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=270

an amusement park bumper car and 1930's gas pump in a bar on Miramar Rd, called the filling station

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

Update on the bumpercars

Created by California-based builder Tom Wright, the original set of modified bumper cars came from the Long Beach Pike Amusement Park's discards.

Instead of watching them join the trash heap, he took out the Harley motors, replaced it with 750cc Honda and Kawasaki boxes, and redesigned them to pass city driving standards. His fleet now consists of eight crazy-looking street bumper cars (culled from different amusement parks), all licensed to give your hottest ride a run for its money.

There are more pics for you on MR38's Flickr Page and here at Little Guy Street Rods.
My original post was here http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-attention-like-nothing-else-at.html
And I just learned about the rest of these via: http://victrolacola.tumblr.com/

eye candy

Above: 25 mph bumper car! http://clunkbucket.com/bumper-car-escapes-midway/ not as cool as http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-attention-like-nothing-else-at.html but close enough

Above: http://blacknotblack.net/black/?p=1103

2 cylinder engine, formerly an airplane tug... back then it didn't have those slotted mags

http://clunkbucket.com/kalamazoo-custom-deluxe/

For attention like nothing else at the cruise, just show up in a bumper car ( the Audi R8 across the street was ignored)

For more, see: http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/09/encinitas-cruise-aug-09-bumper-cars.html

or look at this brief post: http://www.bemlegaus.com/2008/06/carrinhos-chocantes.html or this Flikr photogallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr38/256990476/in/photostream/

I also came across this gallery: http://parkoffka.ru/item/2009/11/16/zabavnye_avtomobili