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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00:00010 00 This is one car that will turn heads on the
00:06road, as it looks to be more at home in a fairground.
00:1069 year old Tom Evans from Glasgow used to run a fun fair before handing the reins of
00:15the business over to his son.
00:17But when he spotted a Dodgem car on an auction site he couldn't resist the memento.
00:24because it looks like a dodgem car, and that's what our family runs, dodgems. So I could
00:31not pass it up.
00:40It was advertising for sale and I thought, oh, very nice, you know, and we kept looking
00:44for a couple of days, then all of a sudden it went off and I thought, oh, someone must
00:47have bought it.
00:49In 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 Northumberland and haggled with the man that had it, agreed
01:03the price and fetched it home. It was stored for about four months, five months before
01:07Christmas. Obviously, I didn't get it till Christmas.
01:12It's been neglected over the years, and when we got it, couldn't use it on the road because
01:17it wasn't tested. I had a handbrake, but no footbrake, and the lights didn't work and
01:21things like that. So we took it into a place in Glasgow and they went through it. They
01:24had it for months, because trying to find the parts.
01:29The street-legal bumper car has all the necessary paperwork and fittings for the road. It can
01:34run up to 75 miles per hour, has indicator lights, a petrol gauge and turns heads wherever
01:40it goes, including the police.
01:44And we've been on the road about five minutes and we got stopped by the police, and they
01:47wanted to know, what the hell is it? And we had to take the documents down to the police
01:52station. And they all came out of the police station to have a look, and they thought,
01:56this is unbelievable.
02:01Very clever. What a great novel idea, eh? Have a dodgem on the high street.
02:07It's quite cool because the guns in here are not as usual as in normal cars.
02:13But this is one bumper car that Tom hopes won't be in a bus stop.
02:17You never see another one like it, I don't think. People see it and they do stop and
02:21think, what the hell is that? Because it is an eye-catcher.
02:25It's a good one.