is there a pedal car thread? love pedal cars! its my other love besides bikes and bulldogs!!! any cool pics?
pedal cars!!!!
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Wow!!!!! That's amazing!
Here's one of my dads. I think it's a 1935 Fire Chief. My dad bought this car from a 75 year old woman that got it from her dad who received it for his 6th birthday and he always kept it inside the barn.
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That is awesome! And probably expensive.
arpicker said:Here's one of my dads. I think it's a 1935 Fire Chief. My dad bought this car from a 75 year old woman that got it from her dad who received it for his 6th birthday and he always kept it inside the barn.
WOW! That is a piece of art! 8)
Thanks! He's had it for as long as I can remember.. It was in one of the sheds that a tree fell on in a huge storm last year. It bent the metal down on the roof less than a foot away from the car.. Had it been sitting a little to the left it would've been crushed. Lucky I guess
I put a thread up here a while back for this build...
I turned an old fire truck into my daughter's 1st ride! 8)
I turned an old fire truck into my daughter's 1st ride! 8)
I don't have any pedal cars YET, but I do have a pedal wagon. It is a AMF Junior Chain Drive Wagon. I have had this since I was 5-6 years old. I have a picture of me riding it back in 1963, I will post that when I find it. I am 54 years old now have hung on to it ever since. 48 years or so. It is still in great shape. It even lasted thru my son playing with it as a kid. (He did not get to play with it much) Sorry Bubba!!! It has a plate that fits over the top of it and turns it into a regular wagon. Leo
WOW! that is the koolest wagon I've ever seen. We are about the same age and I have never seen one like it, obviously your parents had better taste in toys than mine. ha!
Just some advice, if you're thinking of doing a pedal car and unless you can get one local for real cheap, don't bother with the ones people are selling on ebay for stupid $$$. It's rusty junk compared to what you can get brand new:
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/ProductSu ... 9&deptId=0
Plus unpainted, new metal that needs no filler or bodywork is worth the amount of time you save. Good luck.
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/ProductSu ... 9&deptId=0
Plus unpainted, new metal that needs no filler or bodywork is worth the amount of time you save. Good luck.
pedal car hybrid!
I've acquired assorted neglected/discarded/abandoned/unwanted wheeled toys over the past year. Using my new cut off wheel, and some black primer, I "reduced, reused, and recycled" them into a cool new toy.
I started with rusty,crusty , broken kettler car and a wallyword made-in-china, like these:
(they were not shiny and pretty like these pictures- the pedal car was rusting in a neighbor's front yard missing steering wheel and windshield. The kettcar was at a thrift store with a rusted solid chain and broken plastic everywhere.)
New cutoff wheel, and left over black spray primer, and a few bolts gets this:
a new bike chain (who could have one of those?) made it running again. Using Kilz gets a crude white wall going, and metallic silver makes wheels and a new front bumper.
I've acquired assorted neglected/discarded/abandoned/unwanted wheeled toys over the past year. Using my new cut off wheel, and some black primer, I "reduced, reused, and recycled" them into a cool new toy.
I started with rusty,crusty , broken kettler car and a wallyword made-in-china, like these:
(they were not shiny and pretty like these pictures- the pedal car was rusting in a neighbor's front yard missing steering wheel and windshield. The kettcar was at a thrift store with a rusted solid chain and broken plastic everywhere.)
New cutoff wheel, and left over black spray primer, and a few bolts gets this:
a new bike chain (who could have one of those?) made it running again. Using Kilz gets a crude white wall going, and metallic silver makes wheels and a new front bumper.
Leobeerguy said:I don't have any pedal cars YET, but I do have a pedal wagon. It is a AMF Junior Chain Drive Wagon. I have had this since I was 5-6 years old. I have a picture of me riding it back in 1963, I will post that when I find it. I am 54 years old now have hung on to it ever since. 48 years or so. It is still in great shape. It even lasted thru my son playing with it as a kid. (He did not get to play with it much) Sorry Bubba!!! It has a plate that fits over the top of it and turns it into a regular wagon. Leo
That is really cool. I'd never seen one either. It's like a flintstones wagon.
I don't have any pedal cars but here is a cool vintage picture of one from 1967. I own the station wagon on the left and when I bought it from the original owners they dug through all their photos and gave me all the ones showing the car. The kid in the pedal car is the son of the original owner and the guy I bought the car from.
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That is awesome! I've always dreamed of making an adult sized pedal car.
clerkkent said:New cutoff wheel, and left over black spray primer, and a few bolts gets this:
That is awesome! I've always dreamed of making an adult sized pedal car.
Here is a friends Christine pedal car and she did everything on it, there is tons of cool details including a radio & other fun stuff like working lights.
She changed it by adding better stuff every once & awhile.
She changed it by adding better stuff every once & awhile.
Great pedal cars guys! I have an early 50's pedal car that I bought which I was going to make into a custom trailer for my bike, but i abandoned the project and tossed it into the woods behind my girl's parents house. I'll post a picture of it in the future. :roll:
:lol: She did that at the same time she is restoring her real 58 Plymouth so you could imagine how they both will look side by side.
Check out Jr. central.
http://www.jrcentral.com/
Check out Jr. central.
http://www.jrcentral.com/
