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Bought some land and found out in the woods! Its rusted and has some of the "works" within the main. One wheel and no steering wheel.
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If I was you, I'd get a metal detector and head back to the woods. If someone threw this back there, hard to tell what else might be there that's covered up. Nice find!
You can see the other body in the background. Just the shell though...
if you want to restore, there are some website to buy missing parts of any pedal car : http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Pedal-Cars-and-Parts.html
or this one : http://www.cowboysandkidillacs.com/Cowboys_Parts.html
I bought the 4 tires for mine on this one and this is quality pieces for restoration
That would be fun. Can something that rusted be restored?
It can always be restored. If you don't want to put the money into it, they'd make nice flower planters too as is.