Although pedal cars were quite popular from the 1920's into the 1960's, in fact the first pedal cars were produced much earlier. Pedal car history actually begins at the end of the nineteenth century. Wheeled toys, including bicycles, became quite popular toys in the last decades of the 1800's. In the 1890's, the first pedal cars were introduced, modeled after the first automobiles to appear on the roads. Nearly as soon as the Model T was introduced, children's pedal car..
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