These have been posted before, I started buying pedal cars in the early 1980's, (before any reproductions). I had a whole bunch of them and about 10 years ago I moved and realized I did not have room for them, so I kept the ones I liked the most and sold the rest. Sorry about the dust covering them and the junk in the way!, but you get the idea. I also have a weakness for vintage quarter midgets!!
Casper, very nice pedal car collection! Are your quarter midgets ready to run or are they rollers? What do use for engines? Are quarter midgets still raced?
The quarter midgets have vintage Continental motors that are direct drive (push start) with a 6 to 1 gear reduction. My daughters both just finished 5 years of quarter midget racing and although their cars look much like a scaled down modern full midget, the motors are still the same (with much more modifications). Continental or Deco for the upper fast classes or Honda for the entry level. We had a lot of fun. Maybe we will go drag racing next?
my son matthews austin j 40 pedal car,he is 6 years old had it for a couple of years now and loves it
Black coupe, growing up my neighbor had an Austin pedal car. I bet Matthew has put on a few miles on his!
Another pedal car for the thread. This is my son Grant driving his pedal car around the exhibition area of the L.A. Roadster's annual exposition, show and swap meet this year. He's had the pedal car since his 1st birthday and took awhile to grow into it. Recently turned four, he's been enjoying driving his Deuce Hi-boy roadster regularly for almost a year now! Both of his grandpa's (Mike Sauer and "Fat Jack" Robinson) pitched in together to purchase the pedal car and modified it to it's current state. "Papa Jack" Robinson removed most of the decals from the body, had Dennis Ricklefs black out the "white walls" on the wheels and pin stripe the body with scallops & highlights and "Papa's" nickname for him "Homer" on the cowl. The steering arms were modified to drop the ft. end and a "tuck & roll" red leatherette interior was added. Grant's learned to keep it clean by waxing it regularly and always wiping the body, interior and wheels off before parking it. Grant got a lot of compliments and offers to sell at the show and swap meet, but its not for sale. He has a great time with it at home, too!
Here's a Lincoln-Zephyr i have almost ready for paint. It was found on a rock wall up in Maine, crushed dented scraped ignored bullet hole and all. It is destined to go into the Border Patrol Museum, painted in the border patrol colors and children will get thier photographs taken while sitting in it. These pics are before i started work, the second pic is bare metal work in progress, the third pic is with a quick coat of primer in preparation for GatorMeet, a gathering of metalshapers where a master metalshaper used this as a 'project' and we created a 'bondo-buck' and flexible templates from the body so that other metal workers can make exact duplicates of this Lincoln-Zephyr.
Here's my son in a pedal car (1982) that I found in a dump, a little paint and almost as good as new.
1954 my dad (Ed jr.) was also a pritty good artist and wood worker,he designed and built this one of wood for me Forword looking design,but he used gloss cherry red,but looks photo faded bad so kind of looks pick now. maybe some one could photoshop it back to red?
That's not a pedal car, but a Thunderbird Junior by the Powercar Company of Mystic,Ct. Was electric or gas powered. http://www.jrcentral.com/thunderbird.html
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