# Toy Car For Adults **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 22, 2015, 6:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511 "2015-10-22T06:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/1 "2015-10-22T06:20:34Z")
[http://www.someecards.com/news/so-that-happened/little-tikes-real-car/](http://www.someecards.com/news/so-that-happened/little-tikes-real-car/) ---
**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/2 "2015-10-22T06:23:15Z")
So little toy cars were made for children to play make believe and now there is an “adult” car that looks like a kid’s toy so adults can . . . play make believe. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/3 "2015-10-22T06:24:34Z")
I thought that was already in production. It’s called a Smart car. ---
**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/4 "2015-10-22T06:35:41Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 7:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/5 "2015-10-22T07:23:17Z")
That reminded me, I was very jealous of the kid down the block when I was a kid. His dad owned the Merc garage and he had one of those electric 57 Merc kid cars. I guess it was a promotion or something but it was a very good match. I ran into him at a meeting a few years ago and asked him about it and claimed he still had it somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/6 "2015-10-22T16:48:06Z")
A friend of mine had both a '57 Thunderbird and a '57 Chevy when we were growing up. His dad was in the used car business and I’m told that they were promotional items back in the day. I see him from time to time in his '55 Corvette and '67 GTO. I guess he never grew up very much at all. I envy him. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/7 "2015-10-23T01:43:25Z")
When I read the thread title, I immediately thought of the Bentley Bentayga we discussed earlier. It is certainly as impractical as any other toy. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/9 "2016-11-14T16:04:27Z")
I love it! “Little Tykes” cars have long been famous throughout the world. An adult sized copy is a stroke of genius! With the exception of Randy Grubb, there are very few truly unique custom cars being made anymore. There’s a lot of great quality workmanship, but few truly unique vehicles. I consider this among an elite class of handbuilt vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/10 "2016-11-14T16:17:47Z")
My favorite transportation toy from childhood was my Green Machine. It was a big wheel that steered by pivoting the rear wheels using two levers. It was sort of the opposite of a Big Wheel, and a lot more fun. This is what it looked like. [http://www.retroland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Green-Machine.jpg](http://www.retroland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Green-Machine.jpg) While searching online for this picture, I saw some adult-sized ones, but what would really be fun would be a motorized version. I can’t imagine doing that much work to make such an ugly adult toy as a little tykes car. I was expecting something a lot more fun, like a T-Rex car. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/toy-car-for-adults/91511/11 "2016-11-14T17:43:03Z")
I wouldn’t mind one of those small engine propelled drifters. That looks like a lot of fun to me. Big wheels came around a bit after I was (officially) too old for them but we used to take them for rides down this asphalt road that had a huge hill and try to drift them at high speed near the bottom. When it worked, it was pure joy. When it didn’t- epic fail. Picking road rash pebbles from your elbows and hands…