Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania — Dan Hryhorcoff, a retired machine shopowner from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, has built a huge, road-legal bumper car.
The project occurred during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and while the finished product obviously isn’t allowed to bump into other vehicles like its more miniature counterpart, like its namesake, the vehicle does steer like a regular bumper car.
The vehicle is registered as a three-wheeled motorcycle; Hryhorcoff used the front clip, the 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine and automatic transmission from a 2007 Chevrolet Aveo in the build.
Additionally, a motorcycle fork with a single wheel is connected to the oversized steering wheel and the tires are placed nearly in the centre of the vehicle versus the front.
The design of Hryhorcoff’s huge bumper car is based on the 1953 Lusse Auto Skooter, a popular bumper car design still featured in North American amusement parks.
Hryhorcoff used measurements from the real model—although upscaled—and then built the vehicle’s familiar chassis out of fibreglass.
While any actual bumper car activities would crack the vehicle’s fibreglass body, the design does conjure images of what could potentially be one truly wacky fender bender.
