Dodging Traffic: Man Creates A Road Legal Bumper Car

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THIS is one car that can dodge traffic - as it is a street-legal DODGEM. The purple vehicle, which looks more at home at a funfair than on the roads, is a fully converted bumper car that runs on petrol. And its owner Tom Evans is more than capable handling the unusual motor as he used to run a fairground. The tiny car has working lights, indicators, a petrol gauge and even a tax disc to prove its legality to incredulous onlookers which was bought by his wife and two sons.

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00:00This is one car that will turn heads on the road as it looks to be more at home in

00:08a fairground. 69-year-old Tom Evans from Glasgow used to run a fun fair before handing the reins

00:15of the business over to his son. But when he spotted a Dodgem car on an auction site,

00:21he couldn't resist the memento.

00:23The reason I wanted it was because it looks like a Dodgem car. And that's what our family

00:28runs, Dodgems. So I could not pass it up.

00:39It was advertising for sale and thought, oh, very nice, you know. And we kept looking for a couple of

00:44days. Then all of a sudden it went off and thought, oh, somebody must have bought it.

00:47In fact, Tom's wife had bought the Dodgem car without him knowing,

00:53and surprised him with his bumper gift for Christmas in 2013.

00:57The two boys and my wife went down to North England and haggled with a man who had it,

01:02agreed the price and then fetched it at home. It was stored for about four months,

01:06five months before Christmas. Obviously, I didn't get it till Christmas.

01:12It's been neglected over the years. And when we got it, I couldn't use it on the road,

01:16because it wasn't tested. I had a handbrake, but no footbrake,

01:19and the lights didn't work and things like that. So we took it into a place in Glasgow,

01:23and they went through it. They had it for months because of trying to find the parts.

01:28The street-legal bumper car has all the necessary paperwork and fittings for the road.

01:34It can run up to 75 miles per hour, has indicator lights, a petrol gauge, and turns heads wherever it

01:40goes, including the police. And we've been on the road about five minutes and we've got to stop by

01:46the police. And they wanted to know, what the hell is it? And we had to take the documents

01:51down to the police station. And they all came out of the police station to have a look,

01:55and they thought, this is unbelievable.

02:01Very clever. What a great novel idea, eh? Have a dudgeon on the high street.

02:05It's quite cool because the guns in here are not as usual with a normal car.

02:12But this is one bumper car that Tom hopes won't be in a bus stop.

02:16You'll never see another one like it, I don't think. People see it and they do stop and think,

02:21what the hell is that? Because it is an eye-catcher. And it's a good one.

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