Very distinctive Pontiac front end treatment...but I always thought it a little odd that AMF marketed these as T-Birds.
Just a bump for this thread. Anyone finding or restoring one? They do take up a lot of space. So here's a few smaller ones made by Hallmark.
I recently rescued this poor Murray flat face pedal car. Not sure what I’m going to do with it, but I couldn’t leave it where it was.
That’s a TeeBird, I have a picture of mine when I was the baddest side walk racer on the block. I’ll take a picture of it and post it here tomorrow morning so you can see the details on silver on the sides. My folks had no idea how much this little car would influence my life! I WAS the fastest kid on the block even if it was in my imagination…
This was one of the raffle prizes at a recent show, not sure if it still had pedals. I’m guessing it made someone very happy.
You probably wouldn't guess it, but this is a WW2 photo from New Guinea. 'Poignant' is probably the word to use. Some of the other photos in this group aren't so innocent-looking. (Mitchell Library - State Library of New South Wales)
Very cool photo of a 1930's Cyclops pedal car. They were made in Australia. But sad that it's a photo of war times. I wonder what the story of the little abandoned pedal car might be?
Ron - I have hardly ever tried this, but I just did a 'right click' on the image to 'search image with google' and this actually brings up some info: Kokoda Trail; 'This former war cemetery contained an unknown number of remains of Japanese soldiers'. [That info might be from the Australian War Memorial.] Each post could mark a grave (?); the post on the very right of the photo, closest to the camera, appears to have some Japanese characters. When they say 'contained' - past tense - maybe after the war the remains were disinterred and taken to Japan for re- burial? Yes, I wonder why the pedal car is where it is. I am pretty sure I am correct to say that the Kokoda Trail marked the end of the Japanese advance through New Guinea. I think the defeat of the Japanese there, by Aussie troops, was the first defeat of the Japanese in WW2. [You might be more familiar with the Aussie Cyclops pedal cars than I am, although I probably 'drove' one or two when I was a kid. It would make sense that Cyclops pedal cars could have been exported from here to New Guinea back then.]
'Joe the police dog drives model car, 10 February 1941' - photo by N Herfort; ACP Magazines Ltd; Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Chain drive? Very similar to the New Guinea pedal car. This link should take you to the six photos of Joe in command of his pedal car: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/2KBaaGLKV7gA6
'Alan Duke, son of photographer George Duke, ca. 1935' - Mitchell Library/State Library of New South Wales
'Toy pedal car which was donated to Blind Ronnie by Woolworths, Perth' [circa 1929] State Library of Western Australia
You can see that this has been sitting around for a while ... We must have been outgrowing it and Dad modified it; using water pipe to extend the wheelbase, etc etc. The front bumper (it's still fairly solid) looks very similar to the one on Joe the police dog's Cyclops, so maybe this pedal car was a Cyclops.
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