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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00:00This is one car that will turn heads on the road as it looks to be more at home in a fairground.
00:0969 year old Tom Evans from Glasgow used to run a fun fair before handing the reigns of
00:15the business over to his son. But when he spotted a Dodgem car on an auction site he
00:21couldn't resist the momento.
00:22Memento.
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.
00:32It 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.
00:57The 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.
01:04It was stored for about four months, five months before Christmas.
01:08Obviously, I didn't get it till Christmas.
01:11It's been neglected over the years, and when we got it, couldn't use it on the road because
01:16it wasn't tested.
01:18I had a handbrake, but no footbrake, and the lights didn't work and things like that, so
01:22we took it to a place in Glasgow and they went through it, they had it for months, because
01:25trying to find the parts, no.
01:29The 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
01:40it goes, including the police.
01:43And 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?
01:50And we had to take the documents down to the police station.
01:53And they all came out of the police station to have a look, and they thought, this is
01:56unbelievable.
02:01Very clever.
02:02What a great novel idea, eh?
02:04Have a dodgem on the high street.
02:06It's quite cool because the guns in here are not as usual as in normal cars.
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.
02:19People see it and they do stop and think, what the hell is that?
02:22Because it is an eye-catcher.
02:25And it's a good one.