Grown-Up Version Of Little Tikes Toy Car Seen On Strictly

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Grown-Up Version Of Little Tikes Toy Car Seen On
Strictly
Millions of viewers were hooked to their
television screens on Saturday night recently to
watch the launch of the latest series of Strictly
Come Dancing. They may have wondered who the
guests were or marvelled at the skills of the
professional dancers but something else may have
caught their eye. It seemed, while they were
driving to meet the celebrities, two of the
dancers, AJ Pritchard and Johannes Radebe, were
travelling in an overgrown childrens toy car,
which may have looked familiar.
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Some people may have thought it was a mock-up,
built by an over industrious BBC prop department,
but it was for real. Incredibly, design geniuses
have developed a grown-up version of a classic
toy car you can actually drive on the roads. Do
you remember those fantastic plastic Little Tikes
cars, painted red and yellow, enjoyed by millions
of children back in the day and still going
strong today? They are, for many people, an
important part of their childhood, so much so
that brothers Geoff and John Bitmead decided to
convert a childs Cozy Coupe car into a
functioning adult vehicle. The Little Tykes Toy
Car has been going since the early nineties. The
design of the toy car has evolved down the years
and was amended in the late 1990s to make it
stronger and a more pleasurable ride. The look
of the car was also dramatically changed (well,
they painted eyes and a smiling mouth on the
front bumper) while retaining the classic Cozy
Coupe style. The Bitmead brothers, who are
mechanics, noted how the Cozy Coupe resembled the
Daewoo Matiz and decided to build a life-size
version, at a cost of 4,000. The  Big Tike, as
it is called, is a working vehicle, complete with
airbags, mirrors, headlights and can reach speeds
of 70mph.
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This amazing contraption has had a huge impact
and has even been mentioned in the Guinness Book
of Records, but it is still a functioning vehicle
Strictly for grown-ups!
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