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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #275 on: December 11, 2014, 12:58:53 AM »
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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #276 on: December 11, 2014, 11:51:05 AM »
Either
- the taxi cab was very old when the photo was made
- or the pedal car designer was decades ahead of his time.
- or it is a photoshop job...

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« Reply #277 on: December 11, 2014, 12:10:41 PM »
Solution 1 is correct.
The picture seems too be from the 1950's.
The taxicab looks like a Renault, the ones that are supposed to have conveyed fresh troops to the front in 1914. The place is Montmartre, and I guess it has to do with a special event or commemoration involving history cars (it world help if we could reed what's written on the paper on the windshield.
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« Reply #278 on: December 11, 2014, 01:56:19 PM »
I read "Liberation" - this makes sense...

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« Reply #279 on: December 12, 2014, 05:32:54 AM »
Mixed Emotions
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« Reply #280 on: December 12, 2014, 08:59:33 AM »
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« Reply #281 on: December 13, 2014, 05:14:28 AM »
Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like a pedal car from Santa.
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« Reply #282 on: December 20, 2014, 09:14:55 AM »
This little guy is a friend of mine. The first picture is dated 1960. The second one 20 years later.
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« Reply #283 on: December 20, 2014, 10:56:00 AM »
Holy cow! His mate is Dennis Hopper!
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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« Reply #284 on: December 22, 2014, 12:04:55 PM »
Mum, where's that door?

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« Reply #285 on: January 04, 2015, 05:58:28 AM »
Another batch
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« Reply #286 on: January 08, 2015, 02:51:53 AM »
Holiday fun:

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« Reply #287 on: February 05, 2015, 04:59:27 PM »
Cool kids in an even cooler car:

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« Reply #288 on: February 07, 2015, 07:33:26 AM »
Some 1932 entries:

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« Reply #289 on: February 12, 2015, 02:47:21 PM »
A nice array of 1932 french pedal cars:
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« Reply #290 on: February 14, 2015, 07:42:22 AM »
King 8, the electric toy car pinnacle of 1922:

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« Reply #291 on: February 15, 2015, 06:32:35 AM »
Another accumulated batch.
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« Reply #292 on: February 15, 2015, 11:59:19 AM »
Some really cool ones!

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« Reply #293 on: March 05, 2015, 03:39:32 PM »
I want it!  :hyper:

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« Reply #294 on: March 05, 2015, 03:49:29 PM »
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« Reply #295 on: March 21, 2015, 11:55:44 AM »
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« Reply #296 on: March 21, 2015, 01:07:10 PM »
Cool!

Is this a USSR/soviet pedal car?

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« Reply #297 on: March 29, 2015, 02:16:50 PM »
Cruisin'

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« Reply #298 on: May 11, 2015, 12:59:41 PM »
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« Reply #299 on: September 08, 2015, 02:23:54 PM »
Another dream car: