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My 3 year old daughter wants a car of her own. As a car nut, I am all for this! My wife maintains that my TR6 is not an ideal first car for a three year old (I thought about an MGB, but that's really not powerful enough for her... I jest!)
I bought one of the brightly coloured plastic ones at ToysRUs, but as I should perhaps have expected, it was junk. Then I saw an advert in Practical Classics for the Toylander (www.toylander.co.uk), and that looks much more like what I am after. These are kid sized electric cars built from wood, and the chap in England sells build manuals (with patterns for the wood bodywork) and kits of all the parts needed (you can build your own suspension components etc. or buy them ready made). Not cheap, and the shipping for a kit is quite steep, but with the Pound in freefall the price is becoming more realistic. Anyway, I suppose my question is, has anyone built one? Driven one? (There are plenty of videos on Youtube of adults driving their Toylanders!). There are also plenty of people who have fitted soem pretty amazing suspension set-ups to allow the Toylander to go anywhere a real Land Rover can go (well, almost...).
Not sure if this is the right forum - should this be in "other British cars?", or maybe "Land Rover"?
Cheers
Alistair
I bought one of the brightly coloured plastic ones at ToysRUs, but as I should perhaps have expected, it was junk. Then I saw an advert in Practical Classics for the Toylander (www.toylander.co.uk), and that looks much more like what I am after. These are kid sized electric cars built from wood, and the chap in England sells build manuals (with patterns for the wood bodywork) and kits of all the parts needed (you can build your own suspension components etc. or buy them ready made). Not cheap, and the shipping for a kit is quite steep, but with the Pound in freefall the price is becoming more realistic. Anyway, I suppose my question is, has anyone built one? Driven one? (There are plenty of videos on Youtube of adults driving their Toylanders!). There are also plenty of people who have fitted soem pretty amazing suspension set-ups to allow the Toylander to go anywhere a real Land Rover can go (well, almost...).
Not sure if this is the right forum - should this be in "other British cars?", or maybe "Land Rover"?
Cheers
Alistair