A few years ago when my son and his wife had our first grandchild I built them a stroller. I started with a reproduction pedal car body and the first picture is what I came up with. Now that my daughter and her husband had our third grandchild, a little girl named Anna, I was asked to build a stroller for her. I started with a 30's style pedal car. First thing I did was remove all the pedal mechanism. Then I fabricated the lower bracket to mount the push handle.
Now that I had the bracket cut I plug welded the 3/4" square tubing into the 1" and welded the angle cut. This will be where the 1" aluminum square tubing will mount as the push handle. Then I painted it and mounted it to the bottom frame work of the pedal car.
Here it is with the push handle mounted. Next was to cut the lexan floor and mount it to the frame. After I cut it to size, I got to use a tool I bought to mount it. I bought a rivet nut tool and used it to mount the lexan floor to the frame.
Outstanding fabrication.... Good looking stroller
Nice Tom, good work!
Nice tool, I almost bought one a few years ago before I closed up shop.
Looks good Tom...
Nice job!
Great stuff Tom, a lot flasher than the ones I built for the kid when she was younger.
That's really great. The closest I got to doing one of those was when I saw your first project you built. Now my grandaughters are big enough for the powered units.
That looks fantastic, Tom. Post the rest as you get to it, I'm gonna steal your plans for myself (although I hope I don't need to build one too soon). What made you choose lexan for the bottom?
Thanks guys. I used lexan on both of them. The first one I painted the under side of the lexan so my granddaughter could scratch the top of it as she got in and out but the paint would still look good. I left this one clear because my son-in-law thought it would be cool if my granddaughter could watch the road as she cruises. I'll have some more updates soon.
I had to cut out the rear part of the floor to clear the rear axle. I wanted to keep as much of the pedal mechanism in it so my daughter can convert it back to a pedal car when the kids get bigger. I also decided it needed some exhaust pipes so I cut up some chrome tubing I had lying around and made dual exhaust for each side. In the second picture I added a bolt and spacer on the right side to lock the steering so it goes straight.
I'm sure the little one will be proud of it