Hot wheels: Pedal car enthusiast has been collecting the old-fashioned toys for nearly 40 years Jun 16, 2008
Story Photos Andrew Springer, 3, pedals one of his great-grandfather's pedal cars down the sidewalk Sunday in Sycamore ... Lampkins has been collecting pedal cars since the 1970s and now has more than 80 cars in his collection ... Lampkins son, Don Lampkins Jr., decided to pull his father's collection of pedal cars down from the walls of the garage and put them on display in the front yard as a Father's Day gift. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
How to spend 35,000 a year on a child Mar 20, 2008
Pedal cars cost serious money ... Dubbed the most expensive toymakers in Britain, prices for their custom-made rocking horses and wooden pedal cars start from around 1,300. (BBC News -- UK)
Career Produced an Elegant Design Feb 3, 2008
Flashlights and riding mowers, bicycles and fire-engine pedal cars for children all flowed from his drafting table. He once told an interviewer, "If we sold 400,000 of something, I felt I was on the right track.". (Wall Street Journal)
Industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost, 101 Jan 28, 2008
He was lead designer for bicycles and toy pedal cars for the Murray Ohio Co. from 1938 to 1972, and designed printing presses for the Harris-Seybold and Chandler Harris companies. Schreckengost was born in 1906 in Sebring, a commercial pottery town near Youngstown. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
F1 hits Sandton Jul 19, 2007
Down at the track young children can try their hand behind the wheel of Renault F1-styled pedal cars, and you can get your photograph taken in spectacular fashion. Food stalls and toilet facilities will be available at intervals along the track. (iAfrica.com)
'Radical' Mitchell Park to celebrate 50th anniversary Apr 13, 2007
It included such novelties as concrete above-ground "gopher holes" and a miniature freeway, complete with pedal cars ... The pedal cars are long gone, as is a large metal "Picasso" climbing horse, deemed unsafe and now ensconced in someone's back yard. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Pay $15 Million for an Old Car? Better Do the Research: Michael R. Sesit Feb 14, 2007
Still, if you think $15 million is too steep or harbor doubts about what your bidding on, for several hundred dollars, you can buy one of the almost 100 pedal cars Christie's is auctioning on Feb. 16. Those are toys for real boys. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Eye for detail comes in handy Feb 13, 2007
e created that into a very large regional collector toy market, and we expanded that from the toy trucks and tractors into pedal cars, Layton said. t wasn't so much for children to play with the adult wanted one sitting by the Christmas tree in the family room, for example. (Austin Daily Herald, MN)
