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Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« on: April 17, 2011, 11:32:28 AM »
I do know that some of you guys out there have crammed their HD´s with tons of car photos.

I´d like to start a vintage pedal car thread out here, because we had some puzzles with those kid´s dreams of our grandfather´s generation.

Today I´ve found an amazing lot of original photographs with cars and some with pedal cars at a flea market in belgium.

The four "voitures a pedales" here stem from a private photo album.
It would be great if anyone could identify the makes of those exclusive toys from the past.

And please post photos of other pedal cars here, too (old puzzles?).
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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2011, 11:38:49 AM »
Here´s another of my current puzzles:

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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2011, 01:12:26 PM »
Here are a couple that I posted previously -

Cadillac built in the UK for the young King of Siam and the Pels children's car from the Netherlands

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« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2011, 01:34:32 PM »
Wow!

Thank you - the Pels looks dramatic even today...

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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2011, 04:10:27 PM »
Rather more mundane, but I still haven't managed to identify the pedal car I had as a kid. It was bought secondhand in the late 1950s. I've had it posted on oldclassiccar.com for a while, but had no response.

The first reaction when people see it is that it's probably a Triang, but I've never seen another one of this design. Any ideas?


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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2011, 04:59:37 AM »
A few more
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2011, 06:26:11 AM »
+++

I´d take the Champion if I were 5 again...

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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2011, 10:22:15 AM »
 :)

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« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 04:54:48 PM »
don´t tell me this is you...

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« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2011, 05:23:26 PM »
Not me...just found it on the net.
I had a pedal car...it was a police car  ;D

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« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2011, 05:10:53 PM »
 ;D

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« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2011, 09:38:08 AM »
One more
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

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« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2011, 02:06:03 AM »
This boy must have produced some impressive wheelies with this short-wheeled marvel, sitting directly over the rear axle  :D

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Re: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted!
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2011, 08:13:51 AM »
And a Buick for the young customer:

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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2011, 01:08:46 AM »
Ahhh....to be a kid again!


One of my aunts in PA had a pair of pedal cars ... I so enjoyed visiting that aunt!  lol



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« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2011, 06:01:22 AM »
An early example.
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

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« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2011, 06:32:10 AM »
A few more...
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« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2011, 06:34:28 AM »
great pics!

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« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2011, 09:38:37 AM »
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« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2011, 07:48:51 AM »
I few more I stumbled across
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« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2011, 02:33:12 PM »
I drove this one. Didn't make any photos of my own, though, so here is the eBay one.

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« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2011, 02:39:18 PM »
Here are few pedal cars I shot in 2008 at the oldtimer exhibition.

The Bugatti is a real Type 52, I suppose, but probably already electric, not pedal as it was initially.
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« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2011, 01:53:23 AM »
@faksta:

I really like those Moskvich pedal cars. I think I have a magazine essay about the production of those somewhere in my collection.
I recall that they have been assembled by hand in  the same factory where the real scale Moskviches have been built, too.

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« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2011, 02:56:48 AM »
Carlisle '11, pedal cars for sale: