Posted 10 years ago
hemiram06
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This was a friends pedal car.He asked me one day if I wanted to fix up for his grand kids.I jumped at the chance.I love doing stuff like this.
So I started the project with stars in my eyes.
I stripped the paint, sanded the body, polished the parts of the metal I wanted to look like chrome. Masked off the polished pieces, then primed and painted the body and rim's.
All the decals and art work I did myself with vinyl and one shot enamel.
The tires were half gone,so I used rubber off the top of a caravan,which has
a V-grove shape to it.I sandwiched the two pieces together with contact cement glue and bang you have a tire.
After all was done, I stood back and had a good look at what I had put so many hours into. Not bad for my first pedal car.
I put the car into a big box, rapped it up like a big Christmas present, called him up, said his car was done. My wife and I went over to there house for the big reveal. You should have seen the look on there faces as the grand kids opened the box. It was priceless.
I would love to do another one but there hard to come by. Oh well maybe one day.
Great job!
Awesome!......this sounds very similar to my experience in doing my first pedal car............after that I was hooked!.......if you're interested check out my projects on this site
Awesome, and you can tell it's an original. Look at the back of the steering wheel. I don't know how many times I got my fingers caught in the groove in that stamped wheel. These days they'd throw you in jail if you put something like that on a kids toy!! Not to mention it's metal, and a kid could bang their head. I don't know how we survived!
Amazing job! I know exactly how much work goes into something like this, but this is labor of love and real fun. Kudos!
I just bought an old pedal car exactly like the Speedway Pace car. I know nothing about it. Can you tell me what make and model your pace car is? All I can read on this one is "Holiday".
Here's an image of one that probably is the same as yours http://www.shorpy.com/node/19853
What you have is a Murray Flat Face Pedal Car. I can not nail down exactly what year but I feel it was produced between 1962-66 based off of the graphic.
Murray produced many variety's during this time which was sold and marketed for other companies as well such as Sears and Roebuck for example.