Featured The Vintage Pedal Car Thread

Excellent thread, Neal!
Good job!

 

With the exception of the Coupes posted above, the 20s car's windshield material is isinglass, sometimes spelled eisinglass. Similar to what is used on automotive convertible tops or boats. Very hard to find a 20s pedal car with the windshield 100% original. Most collectors leave the space empty. I hunt for non yellowed isinglass as much as new cars. The 30's cars used more of a clear plastic material.

 

Thanks for the kind encouraging words. Not sure what I'm doing actually but trying to keep posting things that others might enjoy.

 

Gorgeous photo, Neal. Do you know who won? Bugatti of course, but which child?

 

We did @Any Jewelry. We got to see a moment captured in time because of a photograph. We got to wonder and imagine.

 

True!

 

Today's pedal car post is of a 1925 American National Paige. There are many things that captured my attention about this car. Within this niche collecting hobby, I find this car to be one of the best proportioned and appointed car models complete with tilt steering, opening door, fully sprung for a smooth ride, luggage rack, and much more. The car has the Boston Store painted on the side so I imagine that this car was part of a contest and some lucky boy or girl (lucky parents too) got to take this car home for free. The final photo in this post shows this car in between it's older (1924) and younger (1928) siblings. I will also be posting catalog pics and vintage photos of this model car on my Photos & Ephemera thread.

 

@Neal Andres - What's the metal accordion thing on the passenger side running board? Seems like that would be one of the first things to get broken and knocked off the car.

 

That's the luggage rack.

 

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/juvenile-planes-trains-and-automobiles.62677/#post-4233860

 

Happy 4th of July

 

The 1936 Ford (the squishy one on the right) is quite small actually. Even though you can adjust the pedal distance in most of these cars, this one was made primarily for 3 year olds while the blue one could carry a child up to 8 years old.