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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #325 on: May 06, 2016, 03:38:24 AM »
Thanks for posting that Ray!
Seven people, including two World Champion Drivers, but 55-odd years later only three are still alive.
If this were another thread we could ask people to name them.
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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #326 on: May 06, 2016, 04:10:52 AM »
8)

L-R Bruce Mclaren, Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, Graham Hill, Joachim Bonnier, (I think) Wolfgang von Trips.

(The pedal car was made by Triang, a representation of a Ford Zephyr convertible).

PS Whoops! Sorry Allan, I didn't get as far as your post!

PPS is that Damon!!??
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« Reply #327 on: May 06, 2016, 04:28:39 AM »
PPS is that Damon!!??
Yes, and he's one of the two World Champions (with Graham Hill) and one of the three still alive (with Moss & Brooks).
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« Reply #328 on: June 25, 2016, 04:40:51 AM »
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He Touched Me With His Noodly Appendage

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« Reply #329 on: June 25, 2016, 04:56:47 AM »
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That's the M25 in 10 years' time. Mark my words. We're doomed. all doomed........
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« Reply #330 on: September 19, 2016, 03:55:01 PM »
Ready to race:

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« Reply #331 on: September 24, 2016, 07:36:14 AM »
A potpourri
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« Reply #332 on: November 10, 2016, 03:33:20 PM »
Anybody following me?

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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #333 on: November 27, 2016, 07:39:17 AM »
The picture is new, but the pedal car is old, and what a car!

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« Reply #334 on: November 27, 2016, 08:05:15 AM »
Ladenburg :)

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« Reply #335 on: November 30, 2016, 10:18:13 AM »
When I joined Autopuzzles in March 2010, I asked if anyone recognised the pedal car in my avatar. My father bought it secondhand in the late 1950s. I've never been able to find out who made it, and I've never seen another one like it - until today, that is!

It turns out to be a Leeway, made by Patterson Edwards (Leeway Toys) of Lewisham, South East London, and the front of it is intended to look like the radiator grille of a pre-war Triumph Dolomite.

It was apparently introduced in 1939, but production was stopped by WW2. I don't know if it was produced after the war, but as the Dolomite was an obsolete model by then, it's quite likely that it wasn't.


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« Reply #336 on: November 30, 2016, 12:22:05 PM »
Co ngratulations on your find - nice to know what it is!

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« Reply #337 on: December 01, 2016, 04:12:54 AM »
A beautiful little car!
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« Reply #338 on: December 04, 2016, 11:14:13 AM »
Have we had this before? The kid is being a Saint.......
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« Reply #339 on: December 11, 2016, 02:49:44 PM »
Wonderful!

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« Reply #340 on: December 12, 2016, 03:02:54 AM »
:)
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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #341 on: December 18, 2016, 08:19:04 AM »
A nice set of cars, tractors, and kids
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« Reply #342 on: February 04, 2017, 02:22:28 PM »
The Shah´s kids in Iran were driving this beauty in 1965:

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« Reply #343 on: March 04, 2017, 07:48:41 AM »
Silver arrow dreams:

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« Reply #344 on: March 06, 2017, 09:58:59 AM »
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« Reply #345 on: March 12, 2017, 07:29:15 AM »
Another miscellaneous collection
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« Reply #346 on: March 16, 2017, 04:49:40 PM »
An old one:

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« Reply #347 on: April 08, 2017, 04:17:54 PM »
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« Reply #348 on: May 15, 2017, 02:29:29 AM »
Adult fun

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« Reply #349 on: May 15, 2017, 12:18:25 PM »
Steering wheel overload... ;)