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Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:37 pm

Has anyone ever seen one?? We picked one up , and would like to know more information about it....
Thanks in advance....
:P

Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:32 pm

They were made in Japan in the late 80's. They came as pedal cars or electric. $150 new.

Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:26 pm

i just picked up this from a friend of mine

Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:01 am

Very Cool... do you have a better pix of the car to post... kind of blurry :-)
I would love to see more pictures....
:D
Thanks

vic wrote:
i just picked up this from a friend of mine

Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:54 am

toydude111 wrote: They were made in Japan in the late 80's. They came as pedal cars or electric. $150 new.
made in china..........

Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:31 am

The red ones were sold at Toys R US I know I was getting them in the 90s.

Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:20 pm

vwbuggn73 wrote: Has anyone ever seen one?? We picked one up , and would like to know more information about it....
Thanks in advance....
:P

I've got one like this only its the electric version. I've had it about 10 years now, in perfect shape. Kelly

Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:45 pm

Some time ago I had seen a guy hand building some of the sweetest VW pedal cars:

Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:15 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=305859

Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:22 am

vwbuggn73 wrote: Has anyone ever seen one?? We picked one up , and would like to know more information about it....
Thanks in advance....
:P

I purchased one from Rocky Mountain Motorworks right be for they went out of business. Still in my garage, my son rode it like once. Thats cool.....Its a cool little collectible.

Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:43 pm

does anyone know where to get replacement parts for the red beetles? like taillights, signal lights? i just bought one off e-bay and they are broken off, but the bumpers and seat and steering wheel are good, even the headlights and wheels/hubcaps.

Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:30 pm

superman73 wrote: does anyone know where to get replacement parts for the red beetles? like taillights, signal lights? i just bought one off e-bay and they are broken off, but the bumpers and seat and steering wheel are good, even the headlights and wheels/hubcaps.

Good luck. VW cracked down on copies of their designs and thats when they stopped making those.
I have one that I bought new, for my son :roll: , and the first and only time he used it the license plate broke off. Other than that it is mint.

Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:58 pm

My oldest daughter, just under 2 years old, riding hers. Christmas 2000

Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:16 pm

I got an electric one of those, still in the box in my garage. One of these days I got to put it together.

-jeffrey

Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:37 pm

I just found mine in the attic when I went home for thanksgiving last week. Still there from when I was a little kid...er... littler kid. Mine is in great shape except the steering wheel. Here is a picture of how I found it.

It had this sticker on the back of it. I don't know if they made it or just distributed it.

I sometimes wonder how my dad knew I'd be into VWs later on it life....

Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:48 pm

Or with the purchase of one of these, you can make a larger scale pedal car.....even for an adult of 6'+ like myself:

:D

Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:05 pm

I bought the body only at pamona last year, and made it into a bad ass cooler hauler, it gets tons of looks and photos, I have another body that i need to do something with to. Thanks JEFF

Sorry for the camera phone photo :oops:

Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:23 pm

I also had 2x bodies around here as I wanted to cut / chop them together for a larger version but I gave them to a buddy at Berg's as he is taking a body repair class at my former ROP school.

Cool cooler ride! 8)

Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:15 pm

bignick wrote: I just found mine in the attic when I went home for thanksgiving last week. Still there from when I was a little kid...er... littler kid. Mine is in great shape except the steering wheel. Here is a picture of how I found it.

It had this sticker on the back of it. I don't know if they made it or just distributed it.

I sometimes wonder how my dad knew I'd be into VWs later on it life....

Munchkin Motors is a toy dealer out here in eastern CT. It just so happens that he also has a early Bug and is a VW guy from way back.

Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:29 pm

MAYHEM wrote: vwbuggn73 wrote: Has anyone ever seen one?? We picked one up , and would like to know more information about it....
Thanks in advance....
:P

I purchased one from Rocky Mountain Motorworks right be for they went out of business. Still in my garage, my son rode it like once. Thats cool.....Its a cool little collectible.

I bought one of these for my son in 1988 from FAO Schwartz in SoCal. I think it's in the attic somewhere. Great video from Christmas morning.