Bug Metal Pedal Car

[oldoval]

Here is my above mentioned cooler hauler doing its thing....
I bought another car this week, it is electric I will get it soon and try to get it moving again. thanks JEFF
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1957 Oval Rag

[oldoval]

It was a bare metal body when i picked it up, sorry for the fake patina, i think it looks pretty cool tho. I have a few friends who have had me make there old pedal cars in to wagons, They are happy cause they can use them instead of them just sitting arround. Later JEFF
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1957 Oval Rag

[superman73]

cool, . im looking for some taillights and turn signals for mine, if you have any left off of some parts cars and want to sell, let me know.
thanks.
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Chuck

Jesus Saves

70 deluxe bus
74 ghia 1776 dual carb
67 manx clone


various other parts cars.


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=228364&highlight=superman73sb+bellsouth

[IowaVdubbers]

cool idea!!!!

That gets me thinking.....I need to find a cool metal cooler that would fit mine.

[realbugfanatic]

I snagged these pictures from the builder's album, he was selling them on eBay a fews years ago. I used to have his contact information, but have since lost it. I will keep searching & post it as soon as I come across it.

Edit> Bingo, I found him & he's here on TheSamba:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?search_author=kevin4
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1973 Super

[dlxcoupe]

Picked this one up on Craigs - hard to pass up a bug!

[sixty9fasty]

Yeah, I see these things pop up on c-list in the sf bay area all the time...

[buggyblues]

I got 3 1 red electric 1 red pedal and a yellow pedal made I think by young masters and remember the red ones showing up in stores in mid 90's at christmas time the electric ones were earlier and stopped selling around 96 I remember this as my daughter was born in 97 and they were discountinued when I tried to find one.

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[jhicken]

[danfromsyr]

FYI - here's one in the Miami CL.
http://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/bab/1325121393.html

[oldoval]

This is one i built for Some americans that are living in germany, they have a full size herbie and are going to take a few photos next to each other should be cool. Later JEFF
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1957 Oval Rag

[scottvw]

I just got this one for free. I bought a broken treadmill on CL for $20 and it was in the guys garage. I asked about it and he gave it to me for free.

[papa_vw]

These little cars were called Junior Sportsters. A number of years ago, I bought 5 of them from Rocky Mountain Motorworks; 2 yellow and 3 red. We kept one of the yellow Beetles for my VW toy and memorabilia collection and gave the other 4 to my wife's grandkids and my niece. A little over a year ago, my stepdaughter was going to give one of the red Beetles away as her son had outgrown it. I opted to bring it home and just had it in storage in my backyard. Well a little over a week ago, I thought about it, pulled it out, and started cleaning it up. Gave it a good washing, tightened the screws, removed the remants of the left taillight, and polished it up with some car wax. It was looking pretty good but didn't look quite right as the left front headlight was missing. The left taillight and the squeaky horn was missing too. I was searching eBay to see if I could find the missing parts or a junky old pedal car I could salvage parts from. I came across an eBay seller who said he had the replacement trim parts for these Beetles. His name is Rich and his e-mail is [email protected]. He quoted me prices for all the parts but the only piece that was really critical to me was the missing headlight. I ordered the headlight from him. The part was used but in good shape overall and helped finish off this red Beetle. Here are photos of our 2 pedal cars which are displayed for the holidays in our living room.

[superman73]

i have bought 3 and sold 2 of them. the first 2 i bought were in decent shape but needed some missing parts and i came across a 3rd one which is electric and in really nice shape and then i posted ads and sold the other 2, one local and one to guy in Europe. my son has broken the steering wheel off the one i kept and now im needing a replacement.
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Chuck

Jesus Saves

70 deluxe bus
74 ghia 1776 dual carb
67 manx clone


various other parts cars.


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=228364&highlight=superman73sb+bellsouth

[superman73]

oh, i did see one here local, but havnt asked about it yet.
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Chuck

Jesus Saves

70 deluxe bus
74 ghia 1776 dual carb
67 manx clone


various other parts cars.


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=228364&highlight=superman73sb+bellsouth

[ottvw]

[debbie a]

yes I have one it was bought at toyworld 24yrs ago and cost $150.00 dollars the bumper bar it plastic and we are trying to restore good luck

[zwartePiets]

Does anyone have any extra parts they might want to sell. I picked one up last week and I am in need of a headlight, turn signal and both tail lights.

[[email protected]]

I'm looking for VW taillights for the pedal car..if you know of any let me know.

[email protected]

[5lam]

I picked this one up a few months ago. It was pretty much toast, but I loved the patina on the body so i bought it anyway.

I straightened out the front, then gave it a coat of clear.

Frame was beyond gone, so I made a new one from offcuts I had.

I narrowed the front, cambered the rear, and put on a set of red 'smoothies' with little tyres up front and taller at back.
As most of it was unusable, i just turned into a stroller/showpiece for my son. Still got to make a handle for the back to push it around.

None of the plastic was on it when I got it, so if anyone has lights and bumpers, or knows where I can get them that would be great!
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