Tag: Toy

  • 1950s Rapida – Homemade Microcar or Pedal Car?

    1950s Rapida – Homemade Microcar or Pedal Car?

    This is being touted as a one-off microcar, but it’s not clear to use it isn’t a pedal car.  Given the wheels, it might be considered the first cyclekart?? The seller seems to know little about the car, and there is no mention of mechanical bits.  The interior shot below might even reveal it’s a…

  • Rare Ihle Schottenring Car

    Rare Ihle Schottenring Car

    A Schottenring car was basically a fair or carnival ride – these little cars ran on a wooden track and had bumpers, much like an early version of Disney Autopia. This particular example was made by GEBR: IHLE, a company foundered by two brothers previously in the coachbuilding business.  The interwebs indicate that the Ihle…

  • Homemade Mini Bus!

    Homemade Mini Bus!

    We like any vehicle ad with the statement “you have the option of sticking your head out the roof while driving.”  In this case, the ad relates to a mini bus estimated to be fourteen feet long and about five feet tall.  Unless the man standing behind it is seven feet tall, we think the…