Two pedal cars

Bob Logan compares two pedal cars: a $13,300 Audi and a Speeder you can build from plans that cost $18.

[#1 posted by StCredZero , December 16, 2008 2:23 PM]

"Speeder?" Dress it up to look like something from Tatooine!

[#2 posted by sworm , December 16, 2008 2:54 PM]

Now if only someone would put a small jet engine on the back of the speeder, so I can die happy.

[#3 posted by Daemon , December 16, 2008 3:07 PM]

Actually, the audi seems to have ample room in the back for a lawnmower engine or the like. And while there's noway it's worth $13k w/o an engine, it does look nice.

Any word on what the materials cost is for the speeder, and aproximately how long it takes to assemble? It's no fair giving a price comparison of a finished product to a set of instructions.

[#4 posted by EH , December 16, 2008 3:30 PM]

AUDI WANT

[#5 posted by Scuba SM , December 16, 2008 3:33 PM]

So, how long before I see someone go whizzing by in a rocket-powered version of the DIY pedal car?

[#6 posted by SamSam , December 16, 2008 4:03 PM]

18 bucks for a couple of pages of instructions? I might have thought that this was the antithesis of the kind of free and open information sharing sites like BB promoted.

If I bought them, could I scan and upload them, or are the instructions for drilling a couple PVC pipes to a plastic drum copyrighted?

[#7 posted by Anonymous , December 16, 2008 5:10 PM]

@SamSam: Instructables has an electric car howto geared to school kids. Swapping the electric motor for a pedal drive can't be too difficult, and/or an electric car is even cooler.

[#8 posted by Quiet Noises , December 16, 2008 8:05 PM]

Couldn't muster the coin for the vintage 1927 "Baby Bugatti" Type 52 pedal car that went up for auction in September in Maine?

Motorized replicas running 10,000$ or so got some blog publicity a couple months ago, but this one out of the Richard Paine automobile collection was an original estimated at 35,000-55,000$. It didn't sell.