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Photo: MR38 [Flickr]
Flickr user MR38 has a nifty photoset of bumper cars modded into street legal mini cars (complete with real license plates!) as seen during the annual Cruisin’ Grand festival in Escondido, California.
Does anyone know who made these bumper cars?
Link – via nowthatsnifty
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Update 11/13/09 – The creator is Tom Wright. Benchrace has a neat story about the bumper cars: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Article at CoolThings – Thanks marn!
Beloved of many, that famous icon of Britishness, the Mini, celebrates its fiftieth birthday this month. This is the story of one of the most influential cars in history, from conception to its final British demise in 2000:
Ironically, this little motor owes its existence to a fuel crisis. In 1956 the Suez Crisis brought about a fuel shortage in the UK. The British, although they had been accustomed to rationing everything during the Second World War, found that because of the conflict over in Suez that fuel was once again scarce – and expensive. Sales of car plummeted, but the market for the cheap and small German Bubble car boomed. The then head of the BMC reportedly stated in a fit of uniquely British apoplexy ‘God damn these bloody awful Bubble Cars. We must drive them off the road by designing a proper miniature car’.
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