Ok lets see what you dads have built for your kids, Bikes, Wagons, Pedal cars, And real cars for you older folk... Heres mine for my almost 3 year old
My daughter's pre-war Colson. Still looking for a decent seat for the bike, so we temporarily robbed the seat off her "regular" bike. Running Kenda Flame tires.
My young fella pictured at 6yrs old trying out a freinds FED for size! He is coming up 9 (august) and we are collecting bits for his first car (T Bucket) so far we have Body and deck, gas tank, rear end , headlights and a few other bits. I'll build a frame for him and will prob run a 4banger for a start. The plan is to have him well and truly used to drivining it before he sits his license (15yrs here in NZ)
nice ^^ caint wait till my son is old enuff to do stuff with me....he's just 3 months,so i have a while
Before you blink, he will be telling you how to do it, and you will be saying "I've forgot more than you'll ever know".
haha,b4 he was born everyone always said stuff like that,and i just blew it all off,now its like wait,he was JUST born how is he so big ?
My oldest son's first truck - a '46 Chevy 1/2-ton. He got it for his 13th birthday. My younger son's van - a Dodge A100.
My son Craig has benefitted from my love for building cars, and while he likes them, he doesn't love 'em like I do. That hasn't stopped me from helping him out providing him with wheels. His Mustang convert is a '68 that he bought as a high school sophomore, 15 years ago. He'd had a '64 Corvair 'vert that he purchasd and he and I spruced up. That was sold and he bought a then one year old, but totalled S-10 pickup. We put a new frame under it, he did all ***embly and I painted it. After 6 months, he told me he missed his convertible, so he bought the Mustang from my buddy Brad, totalled, and sold the truck to finance the 'Stang. With no financial help from us, just help with the builds, in a year and half he'd had three nice cars, and ended up with the Mustang, finished, and 2K in his bank account for college. He has both the Impala and the Mustang now, although we are going to get the (now slightly damaged) Impala back home, and are giving him our '02 PT Cruiser. Turns out it has no value at all, as evidenced by the amount we could have gotten trading it in on the new Fusion my wife is now driving.
Here is my son's pedal car that I am working on. The original interior was gutted out and is being replaced with tuck&rolls. The wheels are getting the buffed white wall treatment. Updated pics to come........
My son's first hotrod (come to think of it it's the first one I built too!) Only decent pic I have - did some metalshaping demos at various car show a couple years ago. Barry
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