00:03This 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 I thought, oh, very nice, you know. And we kept looking for a couple
00:44of days. Then all of a sudden it went off and I thought, oh, somebody must have bought it.
00:48In fact, Tom's wife had bought the Dodgem car without him knowing and surprised him
00:54with his bumper gift for Christmas in 2013.
00:58The 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, five months
01:06before 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 because it
01:17wasn't tested. I had a handbrake, but no footbrake and the lights didn't work and things like that.
01:21And so we took it into a place in Glasgow and they went through it. They had it for months
01:25because 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.
01:43And we'd been on the road about five minutes and we got stopped by the police and they wanted to
01:47know what the hell is it. And we had to take the documents down to the police station.
01:52And they all came out the police station to have a look. And I thought, this is unbelievable.
02:01Very clever. What a great novel idea, eh? Have a dungeon on the high street.
02:06It'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.
02:25And it's a good one.
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