This incredible oversized bumper car is actually road-legal
- This oversized bumper car is road-legal
- Retired machine shop owner Dan Hryhorcoff built it
- It’s road-legal as it’s registered as a three-wheel motorcycle
Published on Jul 16, 2024 at 4:13 AM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Jul 16, 2024 at 7:06 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
This super-sized open-top bumper car is completely road-legal and a total one-off.
What started as one man’s plan to keep himself occupied during the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in – let’s be honest – one of the coolest homemade vehicles ever seen.
This grown-up-sized bumper car was lovingly created by retired machine shop owner Dan Hryhorcoff from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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The bumper car is actually registered as a motorcycle
Drawing on his fabrication skills, Hryhorcoff was able to build this whopper of a bumper car.
Incredibly, the bumper car is completely road-legal as it’s registered as a three-wheel motorcycle.
It was made using the front end of a 2007 Chevrolet Aveo and has a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine and automatic transmission mounted at the back.
The extra-large steering wheel is connected to a motorcycle fork with a single wheel that is nearer the center of the car than the front.
This results in it turning a lot like an actual bumper car.
It was based on a real amusement park model
Hryhorcoff used a 1953 Lusse Auto Skooter as inspiration for his build – which is why it looks so much like the sort of bumper car you’d see at an amusement park.
To craft the car, he took the measurements of the Lusse Auto Skooter, scaled up the numbers, made a mold, and then created a fiberglass body.
Smart, right?
“It’s all made as close as I can make it to the Lusse 1953 bumper car,” Hryhorcoff told ABC News.
“There’s no sense in building a regular car because it exists. It was a little twist on a car but yet it would fit the criteria for an enclosed convertible vehicle.”
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, Hryhorcoff can’t use it as a regular bumper car as its fiberglass body wouldn’t handle the knocks.
Sorry to disappoint you.
But look, if unusual DIY projects are your thing, then check out this motorized bed a man created so he could avoid getting up in the morning; or this man who decided to put triangle-shaped wheels on his bike.
Isn’t it great when creativity meets engineering?
Claire Reid
Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Across her career she's covered a wide variety of topics, including celebrity, cryptocurrency, politics, true crime and just about everything in between.
