The World’s Smallest, Street-Legal Car – Made From a Children’s Ride
Filed Under: zoomilife.com on September 12, 2009
You know those little cars at the amusement park that little kids sit in while they “drive” around in circles on a platform? Imagine one of those with street-legal license plates going 40 miles an hour down public roadways. With flames painted on the sides, even. Driven by a 47 year old British man.
Well, you don’t have to picture this. It’s real life.
A British man named Perry Watkins converted a Postman Pat car from an amusement park ride into a live, working, and legally licensed street vehicle. The tiny car is 39 inches high and 26 inches wide. In the roomy interior sits Perry, cruising down the street at 40 miles an hour, his arm casually slung out the window.
To build the car, Watkins had to ad a steel frame to the fiberglass car, put it on a 4-wheeler (quad) chassis, and put a single cylinder 150cc engine on it. He then threw on some headlights, windshield wipers, a horn and signals.
