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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

Ruslan Kuchmenov is an incredible 56-year-old man from Nalchik, Russia, who searches for old pedal vehicles from USSR times and restores them back to their former glory.

Pedal cars for kids first appeared in the late 1880s, when Karl Benz introduced his three-wheel Patent Motorwagen for adults. By the early 1900s, pedal cars were widespread, especially in the United States, England, France, and Australia. Later on, they became really popular in the Soviet Union.

The pedal vehicles for kids were mostly produced at real car factories. For example, AZLK factory, which produced Moskvich, had its own section of pedal Mosckvich models.

Take a look at some of the restorations by Ruslan and let us know which one was your favorite.

More info: drive2.ru

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Russian Man Restores Child Pedal Vehicles From USSR-Times, And The Result Looks Amazing

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Kane Cheung 7 years ago

Definitely not letting any kids and their grubby fingerprints near these.

15points

Cecilia Aros 7 years ago

I had one of these as a child! I thought I was a badass going as fast as I could. Great memories.

7points

Tomatoe 7 years ago

i had one too, only wasn't feeling much of a badass, considering that it was on my grandmas balcony, I only had like 4 meters to drive forward and reverse (no space to turn), any only witness of my near - miss - badassery was the Sun :) Ah all those precious memories :)

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Alison Denny 7 years ago

These are beautiful. What an artist!

4points

Tracy Moorhead 7 years ago

I never had or saw cars like these, they are very beautiful! I'd like to have a couple of them actual size!!

1point

Antoine Gagnon 7 years ago

Those are so much nicer than the mordern c**p kids have today!

1point

Isabel Tamayo 7 years ago

Want them all! Hahaha how I wish I had the chance to have these to play with when I was young...

1point

Virginia Gould 7 years ago

Beautiful!

1point

H.n. 7 years ago

It's great and heavy work.

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Мышь из Нижний! 4 years ago

Oh! Nostalgia!

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Rachael Marrast 6 years ago

These are amazing!! I want one just because.

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nazan fidan 7 years ago

incredible yet expensive work!

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Ok Ha-Neul 7 years ago

that looks so fun

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Nancy E 7 years ago

I have many antique toys as a collector. Authentically reproduced children's pedal cars & trucks are worth a surprising large amount of money. Anything, that varies from the original model, or, lacks in skillful reproduction is not . In fact, variations are worth less than the damaged models. Antique Toy World is a good magazine to start with to see toy prices.

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Scott White 7 years ago

Thank you for sharing how manipulative collector's in the antique toy market collaborate on manipulating the market for profits on this great post about a man restoring old pedal cars and not commenting on the athletics of a job well done.

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