Author Topic: Vintage pedal cars - your posts are wanted! (Read 161582 times)

Allan L · « **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.

nicanary · « **Reply #326 on:** May 06, 2016, 04:10:52 AM »

Quote from: Ray B. on May 06, 2016, 12:02:07 AM

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!!??

Allan L · « **Reply #327 on:** May 06, 2016, 04:28:39 AM »

Quote from: nicanary on May 06, 2016, 04:10:52 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).

Ray B. · « **Reply #328 on:** June 25, 2016, 04:40:51 AM »

nicanary · « **Reply #329 on:** June 25, 2016, 04:56:47 AM »

Quote from: Ray B. on June 25, 2016, 04:40:51 AM

That's the M25 in 10 years' time. Mark my words. We're doomed. all doomed........

Wendax · « **Reply #330 on:** September 19, 2016, 03:55:01 PM »

Ready to race:

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #331 on:** September 24, 2016, 07:36:14 AM »

A potpourri

Wendax · « **Reply #332 on:** November 10, 2016, 03:33:20 PM »

Anybody following me?

Wendax · « **Reply #333 on:** November 27, 2016, 07:39:17 AM »

The picture is new, but the pedal car is old, and what a car!

grobmotorix · « **Reply #334 on:** November 27, 2016, 08:05:15 AM »

Ladenburg

Tom_I · « **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.