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Projects Slightly O/T: Anybody built their kids a large-scale toy car to play on?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Bigcheese327, Mar 25, 2010.

  1. Bigcheese327
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    When I was a kid, I wanted an old car to play on and in quite badly. Now that I have kids, I keep thinking how cool it would be to build them a large-scale toy car to play on: Essentially a piece of playground equipment shaped like an old car.

    I’m thinking that the boxy shape of an early Model T roadster would lend itself well to a 13/16 scale replica, based on a set of old Falcon wheels I’ve got lying around with 165/80/13 tires mounted up.

    Thoughts? Examples?

    -Dave
     
  2. LAROKE
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  3. Bigcheese327
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    Wow. That's a bit more detail than I was planning, but very impressive.

    Yours?

    -Dave
     
  4. BISHOP
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    That dude is eat up with big rigs, or little rigs. I wonder how long that took.
     

  5. rebelrat
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    MORE INFO on the semi PLEASE !!!!!!!!!
     
  6. R Frederick
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    from illinois

    Could you imagine the looks you would get in traffic?
     
  7. jeffh355
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    Wow... that semi is amazing!!!
     
  8. LAROKE
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  9. unkamort
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    that tractor trailer guy is nuts!

    Probably around the time I was born our town got a 'new' war surplus 46 Ford fire engine. That meant that the 'ol AA Ford rig had to go., and it was moved up the street behind my granmaws five and dime. I discovered it at about age 3. Not every kid can say they had their very own personal fire engine to play on. So my votes for Fire Engine.
    BTY... I was told later in life that the AA went to a junkyard where it was fitted with a boom and served out its time loading scrap. I think it had 800 odd miles on it.
     
  10. gasserjohn
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    i always wanted my own red caboose
    hope to get it done for the 5 grnkids
     
  11. pushrod_mike
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    from Austin TX

    Here is one I built for my kid. It's a fiberglass body I bought somewhere. I built the frame and stuff. Powered by an electric motor. Was in CK Deluxe.
     

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  12. krome
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    where can i get a body like one?
     
  13. junkjunky
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    since we get grandkids 2 at a time arround here I built this stroller for 2.I cut the body out of a old bonneville roof. it will hold 2 up untill they get about 4 years old.
     

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  14. Hank
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    from Wisconsin

    We got and old 88 chevy truck in the back. No doors, hood, engine, trans, or box but the kids have a blast in it. I usually find them seat belted in pretending to race.
     
  15. Buy that "someday" project now & let 'em play in it.

    JH
     
  16. Bigcheese327
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    I like the way you think. Not sure how the neighbors would take to it, though.

    -Dave
     
  17. Goozgaz
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    Does this qualify?

    My kids love being pushed around the neighborhood.

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  18. gearjam1
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    -As most kids are, my kids are nuts over Thomas the Tank Engine. Last week, I was looking at the rolling chassis of my '26 Henney Hearse (the body burned in '33), and my pile of scrap metal... My thought, is to weld-up a half-ass Thomas replica using the frame and wheels from the Henney. The motor is apart in the shop, so I am hoping to build this thing, where the "train" body can be easily removed at a later date, as the kids get older. Nothing fancy, but the way that my kids go nuts over the wooden train playset at the park, this should fill the bill. I know I always wanted my own full-sized train when I was a kid... I think it's way cool that you are wanting to build something for your kids! Keep us posted with what you come up with! -Tony B.
     

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