The car is in quite good condition given that it has been buried for at least seventy years. However, unlike the driver, this car had been nickel plated, possibly to fight corrosion and then painted red over the nickel. It was cast in two pieces and then assembled with three rivets. Two of those rivets are the axles for the wheels and the third runs through the two halves behind the driver's door.
Wheels turn, minimal corrosion, a crack on one fender - now fixed with liquid metal and cleaned to hardly be noticeable. I love this puppy! I have no idea what to do with it but it is a cool find!
In all truth the driver did not belong with this car, but interestingly, he does fit in the seat. Almost makes it look like he belongs there - only he has a pegged bottom and the car seat is not pegged!
Now if you have an ideas on this car I would love to know whom made it and what it might have been a replica of. I am thinking it is 1930-1940's time frame.......
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