ridingtoy
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
This is indeed a Murray pursuit pedal plane from the mid-1940s. As you pedal the plane the propeller turns via a belt between two pulleys. American National also made pedal planes back in the teens to 1920s. Nice thing about collecting older pedal cars, planes, and boats is the availability of reproduction parts for many of the models.
Years ago I met a gentleman who ran a country store not far north of Richmond, VA along US301. His store also housed his collection of vintage pedal toys he had obtained over the years. One item he had was one of these planes that was missing a few parts. He really didn't know that much about what he had. At a later date I stopped in there one day while traveling to Richmond and gave him a parts list brochure from one of the suppliers of repop parts. He couldn't believe parts were available to fix it up and gave me a free Coke for going out of my way to give him the brochure. He won't swap or sell any of his treasures, however. He had a Murray Dump-Trac trailer I was looking for to go with my 1958 Murray pedal tractor. I offered to trade him something of equal value, but he wanted to hang onto the items he's found over the years. I eventually won a nice Dump-Trac on ebay just like the one in his store.
Dave
Years ago I met a gentleman who ran a country store not far north of Richmond, VA along US301. His store also housed his collection of vintage pedal toys he had obtained over the years. One item he had was one of these planes that was missing a few parts. He really didn't know that much about what he had. At a later date I stopped in there one day while traveling to Richmond and gave him a parts list brochure from one of the suppliers of repop parts. He couldn't believe parts were available to fix it up and gave me a free Coke for going out of my way to give him the brochure. He won't swap or sell any of his treasures, however. He had a Murray Dump-Trac trailer I was looking for to go with my 1958 Murray pedal tractor. I offered to trade him something of equal value, but he wanted to hang onto the items he's found over the years. I eventually won a nice Dump-Trac on ebay just like the one in his store.
Dave
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