I did something like that with a shopping cart, but my intention was to use my car's engine to provide the cart with locomotion. Never did I want to damage property which was not mine.

I think it would be cool to have a course painted on some asphalt, even if the playing field is a simple rectangle with the goal to use a car to push the cart across the field to a predetermined ending point. (ASCII art follows)
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