Pimped Out Vintage Rides

(Above) Anonymous vintage snapshot, c. 1930. Child in pedal car.
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c.1940 Original French Bentwood Pedal Roadster

France circa 1940’s Awesome unrestored French 40’s bentwood roadster pedal car.


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Detail of inside of French Pedal Roadster
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Mid-20th C. Folk Art Wood Biplane Pedal Car Toy

USA 1950’s Custom made Mid-20th C. Folk Art wood biplane pedal car toy – purchased from an engineer’s estate, made for his grandchildren in the 1950’s.


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Detail of inside of Bi-Plane Pedal Car
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The Ultimate Pedal Car American Art Deco

USA circa 1935 This American Art Deco steel pedal car dates from the 1930’s, is painted in salmon and ivory with gleaming chrome and a Persipex windshield … and a caboose that can carry a picnic lunch, toys or refreshments. It measures 63” long including the caboose.
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Vintage Peugeot Toy Race Car

France circa 1960’s Peugeot Decorative or functional children’s race car.(Above)

Vintage Metal Toy Peddle Airplane / Car

USA circa Mid-20c Vintage Metal Toy Peddle Car

(Above) Another view, for scale.
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“Hypnotic” Scooter

USA 1940’s/1950’s Wonderful, graphic and visually stimulating, vintage child’s scooter. Great folk art sculpture. Easily at home in either a modern or casual country home; makes a bold and playful statement.

MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT I COLLECT VINTAGE SNAPSHOTS. Over the years I have seen many pictures of kid’s pedal toys. I always envied most of them, because they were so beautiful. I had a tricycle and a bike, but the expensive pedal toys were not so often found in my neighborhood. But check these out! Just the fact that these scooters and pedal toys have survived to be enjoyed today make them rare and… expensive. But for the right collector, they would be important additions to a serious collection.

All of these toys were found on1stdibs

Revel Today in Some Great Objects

(Above) Late 19th century canvas circus banner “Thompson’s American Museum of Genuine Curiosities” with original grommets and binding rope intact, all professionally hand painted with great detail, in as found old surface and condition, professionally lined and mounted in a shadow box. 109” high x 88” wide.
(Above) Circa 1930 wood double sided triangular sign “Silver Lake Camp” with an applied horse head and lettering in crisp white on a bright green ground in the best age cracked surface and original condition. 30” high x 33” wide x 2.25” deep.
(Above) Circa 1930 sheet iron Pontiac Indian weathervane in exceptional and original red painted surface. 54” overall wide x 42” overall high.
(Above) Rare 19th century cast iron mooring head in the figure of a young black man, probably used as a riverboat tie down, in excellent and untouched original surface, ex-Savino collection, as pictured in the book “Horsing Around 19th Century Cast Iron Hitching Posts,” page 55, catalog item #94. 9.25” high x 7” deep x 8” wide.


Circa 1860 highly unusual diminutive cast iron optometrist trade sign in original and as found cobalt and red glass, surface, paint and condition. 21.75” long x 11” high.

AMERICAN GARAGE, located in Los Angeles, CA has a new selection of objects for sale. I have selected 5 lovely objects for you today, to view and enjoy. The Pontiac symbol is my fav!

More Photos, 2009 Outsider Art Fair in NYC

(Above) A very creepy Haitian voodou doll at Galerie Bourbon-Lally.
(Above) Late 19th century memory piece, serving as a frame for tintype, at Carl Hammer Gallery.
(Above) A Morton Bartlett doll on display at Marion Harris Gallery.
(Above) Speakers assemble for a photograph after the American Folk Art Museum Uncommon Artists XVII Talks: left to right: Maria Ann Conelli, Executive Director, AFAM; Susan Mitchell Crawley, Curator of Folk Art, High Museum of Art; Michael Noland, painter and art collector; Jeff Way, artist and educator; Ned Pucher, Ph.D. candidate; Gary Snyder, art dealer; Lee Kogan, AFAM.
(Above) No one could be more deserving of the 2nd Annual American Folk Art Museum’s VISIONARY AWARD honoree than RAW Vision founder and editor John Maizels. The event took place Friday night, January 9, 2009.

Left to right: Samuel Farber, AFAM Trustee; Jenifer P. Borum, adjunct faculty member, NYU; Honoree John Maizels; Rebecca A. Hoffberger, Director and founder, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Maria Ann Conelli, Executive Director, American Folk Art Museum; Audrey Heckler, Cochair, The Contemporary Center Steering Committee; Robert Roth, RAW Vision Board of Directors and supporter.