Potential for stow-able rather than toad?

[Lin]

It does not look like these would fit in a bay in their present from, but the potential to design a stow-able or loadable dinghy based on this concept is there.

http://www.coolthings.com/tom-wrights-street-legal-bumper-cars/

[jackhartjr]

Lin, a lot of folks take a Honda 600, (Don't remember the year...one of the first they imported over here) and cut a foot or two out of it.
These bumper cars are way cool!
Jack

[TomC]

To bad they are not street legal anymore.  This is why I'm doing my truck conversion to have a garage in the back to carry a Mini or Honda Fit.  Good Luck, TomC

[chev49]

what? The Honda 600's arent street legal? I saw one at the Wal Mart Parking lot last year (It has an Oregon License), and i delivered one to my brother in Coquille 4 yrs ago...

I would think some states would allow the tiny cars as in the original post to be manufactured in your spare time at home, as I have built cars from the ground up, had the frames i made  stamped per the DOT requirements, etc.  I have not checked recently, having made the last car in about 2001, but i dont think there is wheel base requirements in my state.  Most of the stuff i built wasn't exactly legal, headlight and bumper heights incorrect, but never have been stopped about that stuff cause they are all 30's street rods.

If I had spare time, I would be building one of those cars like the original post, and have independent suspension and possibly make a 4WD...

[jackhartjr]

Tom, were you refering to the Honda 600 or the bumper cars when you said they are not street legal?  And if it is the Honda...why not?
Thanks
Jack

[Nusa]

He probably means the bumper cars. If you followed the link, and then the subsequent link to more pictures, you'd see the caption that included:

"It was a mistake by the field office staff, said Jan Mendoza, a DMV spokeswoman."

"Our registration division was sent these same photos some years back, and have since corrected their registration," she said. These cars no longer have California plates, she said."

So it's certainly true that they were once licensed for the road, at least briefly, although the term street-legal implies they meet equipment requirements as well, which they likely do not. And they can probably keep the plates on them for show purposes, but they won't get any current registration stickers for them (the pix show 2006 stickers).