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Showing posts with label bumper cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bumper cars. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
A variety of unsual vehicles from hippo pulling carts to tanks running Pike's Peak and nuns in bumper cars via formicarus.tumblr
0 comments Posted by st at 5:33 PM
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Some new company is ready to make bumpercars street ready and presumeably sell them... but they didn't have a website listed, just an email
0 comments Posted by st at 7:26 PM
If I hear back from my email to them I'll post it for your use. The information card on the windshield said "annonymous" and Boulder City Arizona. If you like the bumper car idea, and want to see the Tom Wright's fleet: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/update-on-bumpercars.html
Sunday, March 27, 2011
3 models of the Custer Car, tiny, simple, and pretty much a go cart / county fair bumper car
0 comments Posted by st at 4:34 PM
Notice how the first and second black and white photo are the same car as this color photo I took of a Coney Island bumper car, just a small bumper addition difference
I think I've posted all three of these photos (found on http://www.atomicantiques.com/) before but seperately, not realizing that they were Custer Cars Levitt Custer was inventive, and 1st awarded a patent in 1912 at the age of 24, for his Statoscope which registered the rise and fall of an aircraft. Approved and preferred over the competition by the Army and Navy it was Levitt's financial and professional stepping stone into business and creative success.
Custer had been working out of the old barn behind his home until 1916, that's when he decided to start his own company and had a four-story brick building constructed, on the second floor became an oceanarium, on the fourth floor he made the first indoor miniature golf course.
About 1925, he'd developed the Custer Park Car as an as an amusement park ride, the car was battery-operated and since it could be used on any track, it was immediately popular with amusement park operators who realized they could capitalize on the national craze for amusement parks by converting any vacant lot into a Custer Car Speedway.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
I often come across photos that I add to posts with similar items... but this time I'll just post the new stuff and links to where they would go
0 comments Posted by st at 8:12 PM
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=weasel
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/photos-of-unusual-from-days-gone-by.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/few-more-from-shorpy.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Disney
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/chuck-yeager-american-hero-drove-hot.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/ms-linda-and-damn-big-shifter.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/ms-hurst-linda-vaughn-and-chrysler-300.html 
All those labels under these posts, and in the long column (about 1000) are there to help me, and you, find the stuff you are looking for. They sure help me find the things I recall having posted before, so I can add photos like these to the posts I want them in, or want to let you know where you can find similar things.
photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=270
Friday, October 1, 2010
an amusement park bumper car and 1930's gas pump in a bar on Miramar Rd, called the filling station
0 comments Posted by st at 5:01 PM
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl
Nixon in Paris 1957
Bumper cars at a British carnival
The concept car Ford Seattle
Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career
Daytona Beach racing 1953
Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950
Cincinatti 1950
Looks like James Dean's Porsche
Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi
From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/
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