Junior shite

[Christine]

When my daughter was little , i made her an electric  Land Rover Lightweight . Plans were in 1994 Model Engineer .. no rear diff , but a golf caddy motor on each rear wheel .Forward and reverse,and  variable speed . She loved it .

 

 

 

 

 

When i built it  , i nicked pictures of  other little cars on ebay , & lorries ,buses..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All i got when i was little, was a Triang tricycle. 

[Tamworthbay]

Very nice, I have looked at this sort of thing a few times but the plans tend to need special parts that the plan sellers charge a fortune for (no surprise), I suppose I could just make one to my own spec. I even have a nice hub driven gearbox that has already been converted to chain drive.

[Christine]

Mine was all built from crap from down the tip , battery was £50 though , and a few relays .                            

[Tamworthbay]

What were the wheels from?

[mercrocker]

Apologies if this is old hat and I have shamelessly stolen it from YT but I thought these were brill when I saw them on there a while back

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3v75Veg8Ik.......

[Christine]

What were the wheels from?

mountfield mower

[anonymous user]

I like old pedal cars and often end up buying them despite having no children. Most have been given away or sold on

 

 

This was my eldest neice when she was two (she's now 28), I bought the J40 and fitted new tyres and got the lights working, my brother sprayed it and she had it for Christmas. (She wouldn't get out of it all day and ate her christmas dinner in it). We didn't bother doing the chrome as it was always going to be a toy rather than a showpiece

 

The car survived her and her two sisters and brother and was always a hit at birthday parties until they all outgrew it. My brother still has it and hopefully it will serve any grandchildren well. I also gave them various Triang cars, including a Jeep, and a wooden Leeway pedal Locomotive.

 

I have had several other J40s, most were sold, but, two were given away one to a children's hospice and the other was too rotten for me, but someone else thought they could do something with it.

 

Also had a metal Peugeot 403, sold to someone from the Peugeot owners club, a Moskvich which I should have kept, a Mark 2 Zephyr, sold to someone who had a full size one. Currently have a Triang Rolls Royce Corniche in the cellar and my remaining J40 in the living room

 

 

Often see stuff on ebay which would convert nicely, usually fairground stuff, recently there was a superb, french steel bodied 1960s coach, fortunately I usually come to my senses before buying it.

 

Edited to add it's still on ebay, but at that price not surprised

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-French-Carousel-Juvinelle-Ride-Architectural-Antique-Vintage-Fairground-/121859020669?hash=item1c5f5d177d:g:jc4AAOSwLN5WjnWh

 

Edited January 28, 2016 by anonymous user

[Matt]

I'd love to build a little mini bike with a mower engine alas I have no weldage or steel tube bendage skills or equipment. Found a couple of old free plans (50's, 60's?) on the net a while ago that I still have. I'll post the full things if anyone wants them. Maybe not strictly junior shite because helf n safety.

 

 

[Luckythirteen]

I love how the utilitarian design of the Landy can be scaled down so well in plywood and scrap.

The Scania there is impressive from the front, but the driving position leaves a bit to be desired!

 

I'd seen one or two tot rods at shows here, but I wasn't prepared for the lengths the Americans would go to over them. Seeing the level of detail and finish on them at a show when we were on holiday there was an eye opener: the money involved took it out of the league of mere childs toys. Shame really, cos the kids seemed to be taking it as seriously.

[Christine]

Feel free to add any interesting pics !

[martc]

 

shamelessly copied from eye catching black and white photos

[sierraman]

The company that used to sell the designs for the land rovers was based close to where I used to live in the 1990's. Don't know what became of them, they had a unit on the Carley Drive Industrial Estate then latterly at Holbrook. Probably went bust I'm guessing.

[Christine]

Toylander ..bought by Tata industries probably.  

[Cavcraft]

I remember the adverts for those LandRovers.  You've done an ace job of them, fair play to you Christine.

[carlo]

A young Carlo with my first car

 

 

[smellmycheese]

I remember being on holiday in Greece in the early nineties and me and my dad stumbling across a bike meet one night. Some of the local teens were on little 50cc replica sports bikes. Fucking ace they were, proper scaled down jobs not home made either. Never seen one since, does anyone know what they were??

[Luckythirteen]

Might have been minimotos? Tiny little race replicas, about knee-high with pull-start engines?

 

Like so...

[smellmycheese]

 

No they weren't that small, proper little road legal sports bikes

[Faker]

Nsr 80

[Faker]

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[Christine]

That's a cool bike ! /\  My 2nd cousin raced GP 250 ,500, BSB, WSB and Moto GP ...reputed to be one of the fastest riders around ...I'll not say who though  .. I wasn't allowed a motorbike, but on the quiet I bought a Bultaco 325 Sherpa T   and fell off it straight away ​ , and it fuckin hurt    I don't like motorbikes much now . 

[Christine]

Toy car i built for myself !

 I had hair then !!!  That's me Mum (gone now) who forbid me a motorbike . But a plastic and plywood homemade car with a 2.5 6 banger was ok ???  Scared the shit out of meself in that !! Happy days, sigh..

 

 

[KruJoe]

Feel free to add any interesting pics !

 

OK then!

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting?

These pics are from a collection I photographed a while back, I really need to get a new thread up for you lot.

[Christine]

Blimey  

[xtriple]

I have a scar on my forehead from my first car accident. Happened when I was two years old and I collided with a friend. We were both in American type pedal cars!

 

When Kyle was little, I bought him a Ferrari formula 1 car. Electric, gears... fast! He loved that bloody thing and I used to run miles chasing after him (we lived down a very long private road) and he even wore the rear tyres out he used it so much!

 

When he outgrew it, I bought two petrol karts in a million bits and built them both. I took him on the better one for a test drive and promptly sold them both as I spun the bugger on the first test drive and the speed it went was ... impressive!

 

Turned out they were both 500 cc Jawa engines!

[Christine]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[xtriple]

Oh, and if anyone wants to sell a J40 I'm your man! One of the (many) reasons I fell out with my Mother was that she promised me a J40 for Christmas... I'm still waiting!

 

I have NEVER forgotten or forgiven this lack of J40 in my life! Too expensive to buy now though (sob!) .