Many of us either had, knew someone who had, or at least have seen that iconic Little Tikes toy car when you were a kid.
You know the red one with the yellow top that moved like the Flintstones’ car.
Well, the Bitmead brothers’ Little Tikes car is street legal and can reach speeds of up to 70 mph.
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That’s because they souped it up into an adult version of the classic kids plastic toy.
But their version isn’t a toy or plastic, it’s a real actual car that looks like a replica of a Little Tikes toy car.
John and Geof Bitmead of Attitude Autos took a Daewoo Matiz and modified it to look like a Little Tikes toy car.
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It takes gas, an airbag, headlights, mirrors, and can go as fast as 70 mph.
So, no foot-power needed.
It took the brothers about 16 weeks to build the car in 2015.
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The brothers told the BBC they had the “nutty idea” to build the car after they noticed that the headlamps if the Daewood reminded them of the Little Tike’s Cozy Coupe
“I just thought, what a wonderful idea to make something like that, but real,” John told BBC in 2014, according to Newsner “And as soon as I thought of it, I knew the car.”
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So, they decided that they wanted to create something that looked like it was a “part of people’s childhood and their children’s childhood.”
“There was that kind of response to it. Everybody recognised it. It’s part of our life. We see these things in people’s front gardens, and now you can see it on the road,” he said.”
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They loved seeing the reactions of people when they would drive the car around town.
“They’re amazed to see the real thing on the road. I’ve seen people with tattoos all up their arms walking along the road just cheering at us. There was that kind of response to it. Everybody recognised it. It’s part of our life. We see these things in people’s front gardens, and now you can see it on the road.”
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The car cost them about $41,000 to build.
“We were hoping it would be out on a regular basis, create some revenue and recoup the money used to build it,” Geoff said.
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“But in real life it ended up going out four or five times in two years. So we thought we might as well sell it and if anyone’s interested in buying it that will bring back some money for us.”
The car was put up for auction on eBay and got bids of up to $33,000, according to Mental Floss, but it isn’t known if the car was actually sold.
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Geof did tell BBC that he hoped to use the proceeds of the sale of the car to build a ghoulish looking Addams Family-inspired camper.
Apparently, they also have a Hello Kitty-inspired car.
You can hear from the brothers and see them drive their car around in the video below.
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