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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:58 pm 
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Now these are street legal. If anyone has a link on what is required to make something such as this street legal, let me know.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:15 pm 
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lol, I've seen those! Anything can be street legal if it conforms to the smog standards of the year of manufacture, can stop in a specific distance, and conforms to the safety standard for the size of the car.

They maybe streetable, but they definitely aren't highway legal.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:30 pm 
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Well I guess it would just have to meet all the stipulations in the CA vehicle code. From my head, things like the following are important:

-bumper height
-headlight height
-presence of turn signals and brake lights
-proper coloring of lights
-seatbelts
-exhaust noise and height (I think it's lower than 2 feet or higher than like 13 feet, anything in the middle is not allowed


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:36 pm 
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I've never seen those, but now I want one. :D

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:29 pm 
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They would be awesome to drive around town. Of couse without bumping into other cars!!!
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Street Legal Bumper Cars
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 .

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:50 pm 
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Wow.... I guess it they were made in the 40's or 50's somethings are easier.. Beyond a certain date the crash bumpers would kill them.... I would want seat belts... Maybe a roll bar too.

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back in the "good old days" 50-60s the weight had a lot to do
with it. my 40 ford pickup was under 3000lb I could put regular car
plates on it and hull all my junk, good times (that was in CA)
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Lets see, no 5 MPH bumpers, no side reinforcement strips, if I dig enough I could impound these in a second, I would want proof these are street legal.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:10 am 
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Not sure, but maybe he did it by claiming to modify a motorcycle... but then again, the car plates wouldn't make sense. Maybe even some loophole...

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:03 pm 
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Does California have a helment law for motorcycles? Also, I think there might be a difference in requirements for experimental/hobby cars as compared to mass production vehicles. At least that what I am slowly begining to see. The government sure doesn't make it easy to do research in this area.

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I guess this is what the kids came up with that their parents told them to go play in traffic! :econfused

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Good one! I wish I was that smart when I was a kid (and now)!!!!

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i got one for you guys in bakersfield calif there was a few street legal quads :lol:

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:02 pm 
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You have GOT to be kidding! How in the hell can one be made street legal? My son, in Florida, put all of the required stuff on his just to do it and a cop told him NO TYPE OF ATV CAN BE MADE STREET LEGAL. Was neat with the turn signals and even a horn. He put a lexan windhield on it with a crank at the top to work a windshield wiper. My son, the tinkerer.

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People drive them all over the streets here. The guy I work with drives his to work all summer.

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They can be made street legal here in South Dakota. Same rules as motorcycles. The motorcycle crowd is sort of throwing a fit about it. They want them classified or licensed seperately or something.

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why not sell those at the old folks compound in Florida?
they just did an expose' on them old stoners and their golf carts and pot farm
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stoned old people and supped up golf karts, boy i cant wait to get old :lol:

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hell i am old lol ok getn there :eugeek

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