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    Bugatti Pedal Car

Just revisited you web site and keep up the good work there as well!    I read your bio and you have been to Pebble Beach Concours...I spent several  springs there (in the mid 60's) working for a collector of classics name  Alton Walker.  
My question is this.  He had and was in the process of  restoring a "pedal" car made by Ettore Bugati for his son.  Have you ever  come across this in your travels.  This little car was an exact scale replica of a type 35 I believe though time and my tendancy to forget model  numbers may be the wrong model.  Anyway it was accurate to even the spoke style of the wheels  and some of the interior panel was hand scraped as were  the fire walls, etc.  of the full size version.  As I recall it even had a  miniature enamel logo on the radiator shell.  Mr. Walker is long gone but I  can't imagine that this treasure would have been lost by his heirs...     

The Tinman Respondeth:

During my years at HAC (Harrah's) there were two of the miniature Bugattis, and while they may at one time have been pedal cars, they were heavily used and as battery/electric cars by sons John Adam and Tony Harrah. Quite often the cars were fished out of the family pool and brought in to us for repairs, until they became so fragile that they were put on display in the Collection.

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