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McLaren may not have won the F1 constructors’ championship for 13 years, but it’s certainly not for the lack of young talent. Pictured here is a pedal car race for the children of Formula One people from 1969, and the girl in the top car, team founder Bruce McLaren’s three-year-old daughter Amanda, had serious competition. More »
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As part of the Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey event in Pennsylvania, RM Auctions and the Antique Automobile Club of America will offer vintage-style pedal cars, custom-built for the event and benefiting the AACA. The cars were designed and fabricated by some of the nation's top restorers and wrenchers, and come in flavors ranging from a stylized Packard to a damn near perfect miniature 1956 Cadillac. We shudder to think what RM getting involved will do to pedal car prices, so if you want something for your little ones, act quick before the richies drive the price on Radio Flyers into the stratosphere. More »
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Who said life in Soviet Russia was weary, dreary and ho-hum? Lenin's disciples were obviously doing it for the kids! So much so that they cordoned off swaths of glorious Russian auto factories for production of totally sweet pedal cars. Yes, if dear old dad could roll right in a Moskvitch, there's absolutely no reason his child couldn't enjoy the same Spartan state-built glory in his or her own mode of backyard transport. [English Russia] More »
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