Would you remember playing this when you were a child? Perhaps you looked on with Envy at other kids, or maybe you are like me and have got one for your child? Well a gentlemen in England that we can only describe as being a bit of an eccentric nutter called John Bitmean has taken his childhood toy and created a replica. Not just any old small toy replica (like some of the custom branded toys in our range) but a life sized replica of the famous Red and Yellow Tike car. However that is not the best part about it.

You see this life sized Tike car is actually a real car! It is not just a large piece of plastic with a lawn mower motor either. It is a fully registered and approved road worthy car that travels just as fast as a real car. The only drawback that I can see though is the fact that the design needed to adhere to the real life toy sample. Therefore it has no front windscreen. This is fine if it was traveling say at the pace of a Turtle, however if you were traveling at proper speeds it will not be a good ideas, especially when insects and pebbles start pelting you at an alarming speed.

According to reports by http://www.bbc.co.uk/ this car runs on petrol and to make it truly roadworthy, it has front headlights, side mirrors and a safety airbag. It took John Bitmead a total of 1000 hours at a cost of $6500 pounds. Curious to see the car in action? Check out the clip below, you will find this car absolutely exhilarating.

In case you did not know this is what the original Tike Toy looks like.