valentine's day Street Legal Cupcake Car

Stay-at-home dad Don Rutledge of Oak Park, IL has built the ultimate machine: A completely street-legal cupcake car.

 

He got the idea from Burning Man Festival, where a troop of cupcake and muffin cars first took to the road a few years ago. With the help of some friendly cupcake car veterans, he bought a kid's bike for $5 at a garage sale and chopped it up, welded together a support seat, added electrical components including a few 12 volt batteries and constructed the body out of aluminum and other insulation materials. It tops out around 25 MPH. In his spare time, it took him about 2 months to build it and he is really enjoying the attention from his neighbors and friends when he rides around in the giant mobile pink cupcake. The only thing he's afraid of is other people causing accidents while trying to snap a picture of it. The other interesting thing is the police say this car is okay to take out on the roads. People in Chicago have already started asking Rutledge how much it would cost to get their own cupcake cars. I don't know how these would fare on Chicago streets with all the potholes and all, but I could definitely see these riding around town in nice weather.

Check out these pics and this sweet video of Rutledge (courtesy of WGN TV) tooling around in the super cute cupcake car: