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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Created by California-based builder Tom Wright, the original set of modified bumper cars came from the Long Beach Pike Amusement Park's discards.

Instead of watching them join the trash heap, he took out the Harley motors, replaced it with 750cc Honda and Kawasaki boxes, and redesigned them to pass city driving standards. His fleet now consists of eight crazy-looking street bumper cars (culled from different amusement parks), all licensed to give your hottest ride a run for its money.

There are more pics for you on MR38's Flickr Page and here at Little Guy Street Rods.
My original post was here http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-attention-like-nothing-else-at.html
And I just learned about the rest of these via: http://victrolacola.tumblr.com/

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