Pennsylvania man builds street-legal bumper car

A Pennsylvania man is being applauded aft he mixed a motorcycle and a Chevy to create his ain thoroughfare ineligible theme-park inspired bumper car.

Dan Hryhorcoff, 72, decided that he wanted to undertake a caller task while being stuck astatine location during nan pandemic.  

'I had a instrumentality shop for 35 years and built worldly for different people. When I retired, I didn't want to build for different group anymore, truthful I played pinch my ain toys,' he told ABC. 

To find inspiration, Hryhorcoff decided to return a stroll successful nan bumper car crippled conception at Knoebels - an amusement parkland successful Elysburg, Pennsylvania. 

During his visit, nan instrumentality shop proprietor took a liking to a 1953-syled car made by a institution named Lusse and decided to exemplary his ain conveyance to it. 

'I decided to transcript 1 of those. I measured, and took photos and made templates, and immoderate I needed to transcript nan car arsenic good arsenic I can,' Hryhorcoff told Popular Science. 

The street-legal bumper car, which measures 13 feet long, 7 feet wide and 5.5 feet tall, is fitted pinch a Chevrolet Aveo powerfulness portion and is made retired of fiberglass. 

'I took nan beforehand of nan Aveo, and chopped it off, and put that successful nan backmost of nan bumper car. And nan beforehand of nan bumper car is simply a motorcycle wheel, ' he noted. 

Hryhorcoff, who erstwhile built a 1950s pedal car for children, besides added successful a rod successful nan backmost of nan car to mimic nan measurement existent bumper cars get their electricity. 

Talking astir really he he learned to build vehicles, Hryhorcoff recalled: 'I learned to tally a lathe erstwhile I was 13 years old, pinch my dad, and he was benignant of a jack-of-all-trades.' 

A lathe is simply a instrumentality utilized to shape metallic into a information shape.

Hryhorcoff had spent 4 years aft precocious schoolhouse successful nan Navy successful nan early 1970s, wherever he had nan opportunity to activity stateside and repaired radios for F-4 jets. 

He past went connected to study mechanical engineering astatine Penn State University. 

After graduating, nan mechanic began to activity for a drilling institution and soon started his ain instrumentality shop called Justus Machine.