Triang Duke restoration

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I'm not sure if this is the right place, but 'scale models' seemed like the closest candidate.

With quite a gap from our youngest child and next oldest, we no longer have any of the 'big' toys they had, so rather than buy some future-landfill blow moulded plastic junk, I thought I would pick up a classic all-metal pedal car.

This is what I found, and in the process found many others which where significantly more expensive.



From some basic googling it is around 70 years old.

The plan is to make it look more like this...



At least in spirit, if not actual execution - rivet counters and purists stay away, it's just a bit of fun, not a full replica, and I wanted to get it done in a week of lunchtime naps (his, not mine), so I'm not going to obsess over details.

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It's not complicated but a few pics of how it all works for when it goes back together.









So all in, a few pop rivets to drill out, and the larger pins on the steering I cut and pressed out as I want to fit bolts with some Teflon washers to smooth it out a bit.