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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: piatti on March 03, 2010, 08:29:28 AM
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Im looking for pics of all sort of microcar pedal cars.
someting like this:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2053528546_550c651643.jpg)
thanks
Oliver
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yidA5zweWYI
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Thats one way of decapitating your grandchildren!
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That Isetta must have taken quite a bit of work, so it is a shame that it was not better thought-out and shaped a bit more convincingly.
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Hey, thats what I thought too. Maybe a stiffening frame for the shell that would also act as a roll cage and a lower seating position so that the driver could look through a windscreen.
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Yup, it seems daft to make its style "fully enclosed car", but not to have proper windows. My feeling is that children either like something basic, then let their imagination fill in the details, or something really pukha, and that car's design will always make the boy realise that it is not a proper Isetta
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That a nice Isetta. I'm wondering wheter the exist any messerschmitt pedal cars
(http://www.sammlung-blasius.de/data_img/header_image070628131400.jpg)
Here is a link to one of this terrible pedal cars from argentina
http://de.vandm.com/BMW-Isetta-Child-Pedal-Car/3_239_37=999_60=558_product=107668.aspx?field=37
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That red Isetta pedal car looks much more like a Messerschmitt! In fact a KR is a great choice for a pedal car because of the central weight, and the simple steering mechanism. Another problem for me with the "Isetta" on You Tube is that the handlebar steering does not suit, whereas in a KR it would be perfect.
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that generic red pedal car from Argentina shows up with either Isetta or Messerschmitt badging on it and I have seen them in people's private collections.
$1000! wtf?
???
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They should also sell it as a BSA Ladybird!
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They should also sell it as a BSA Ladybird!
Totally agree with you marcus. It looks most like a Ladybird to me!
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not sure if this is a pedal car or if it has an electric motor.....
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That looks bang on for a Biscuter, kind of what I was meaning about the Isetta earlier...spend a bit more time and effort and get it right! Very nice, I want one, and I could probably fit in it!
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Dear Jim
Great photo of a Biscuter.
I take it that the photo is of you as a young lad, out with your first girl friend (trying to impress her with your new motor!).
Chris T
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How about this attempt at a Vespa seen at Retromobile, obviously minus a roof and sporting a diamond shaped grill.
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these are realy good ! :o
(http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1885/245/91/1053883186/n1053883186_236821_6002.jpg)
(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1277/245/91/1053883186/n1053883186_226533_3770.jpg)
hope the links work!
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That's more like it! Superb.
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Dare I say that the half scale Isetta actually looks better than a Peel 50?
I like the youtube Isetta clip as the young lad has that slightly reserved look you get when Dad has really actually given his kid a present that Dad wants to play with rather than what the kid really wanted.
There are some clever people about, pity I am not one of them. I seem to major in repair rather than creation, differing skill set, though I have done a few kitcars in my time.
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The red Isetta is so good you have to look twice to make sure the white car isnt a giant one! :D
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The red Isetta is so good you have to look twice to make sure the white car isnt a giant one! :D
Bob, are you actually sure the white Isetta isnt a giant one ??? ;) ;)
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Dare I say that the half scale Isetta actually looks better than a Peel 50?
I like the youtube Isetta clip as the young lad has that slightly reserved look you get when Dad has really actually given his kid a present that Dad wants to play with rather than what the kid really wanted.
Watch out for the Peel Fanciers, their hit squad is on its way!
As for the YT clip, you are BANG ON! I wanted to say something about how underwhelmed he seemed but you have phrased it perfectly: he made his son's present to please himself
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that is actually his grandson.
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Dear Oliver, Bruce Winer owns a Messerschmitt pedal car but its very similar to the Isetta of your Link.
http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/messerschmitt-pedalcar.html
http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/isettavelam-pedalcar.html
My personal favourite is the Pinguin pedal car made in the 1950-60s.
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Watch out for the Peel Fanciers, their hit squad is on its way!
As for the YT clip, you are BANG ON! I wanted to say something about how underwhelmed he seemed but you have phrased it perfectly: he made his son's present to please himself
I found an Isetta head on my pillow this very morning!
I had a Grandad like this. He made special kites to be flown on the greensward at Frinton-on-Sea. If they failed we got the blame, I particularly recall a fine huge hexagonal box kite suffer catastrophic structural failure and getting a whallop because of it. Still I got half a crown later so I did not mind. Imagine that happening today in public! Still it is a right of passage to recieve adult male toys as kids gifts to get them past the female gestapo who would insist a new fridge is much more important - trainset, scalextric, small bubblecar, the Kim Song DIY Nuke Kit by Halbro and so on. I suggest our folks are partly responsible for our majoring in adult toys now and I feel sorry for those who actually always got exactly what they wanted as many of them end up very unhappy unstimulated adults.
I had an old J40 pedal car which was brilliant and led directly to box cart construction as it was not good enough on the unmade kids cart run. Interestingly many youngsters today cannot power them as they have not the leg muscles. Also you no longer see local unmonitored kids karts let alone ongoing competetion, even bikes are dying out. Some sort of cart/pedal car was a right of passage for boys years ago and where practicle experience was learned for the future doing man things.
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A few years ago my brother found a plastic F1-style pedal car, old, broken and abandoned in the street. We repaired the steering and took it to Stave Hill with his children and had a great time zooming and skidding down the slope, its hard plastic wheels were great for skidding and 4 wheel drifts. Later some kids turned up with a very flash all-metal pedal Go-Kart, rack and pinion steering, suspension, fat knobbly tyres, roll-over bar...the works. They immediately joked about our rubbish thing, and how much better theirs was, and they started taking turns down the hill. It was immediately obvious that their cart was far too heavy, stable and grippy to be any fun at all. After about 10 minutes they became very friendly and started asking for goes on our cheap but great fun plastic tea tray on wheels. The parents who bought that Go-Kart must have spent a fair whack, but it was all pose and little fun.
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Some sort of cart/pedal car was a right of passage for boys years ago and where practicle experience was learned for the future doing man things.
Wasn't that usuly some old banger up a quiat country lane somewhere where most of us learnt practical experiance for doing man things rather than our pedal cars..... ;)
Mind you, some of us still have pedals on our cars. ;D
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Mind you, some of us still have pedals on our cars.
That is true and I notice the two stabilisers have been removed so your getting there, lad. It is nearly time for you to move onto a real car - the Invacar Type 70! Burn baby burn!