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Child's plastic toy car with two peg figures

Object/Artifact

A small molded plastic (soft/flexible) toy automobile in red, of streamlined cabriolet/roadster form with bulbous rounded fenders front and rear and a low open two-seat cockpit. Molded detailing includes louvered vents on the hood and rear deck and curved faux side-vents on the front quarters. The cockpit holds two simple peg-style figures — cream/ivory bodies with round yellow ball heads — on ribbed seat backs, with a small blue steering wheel at the dashboard before one seat. The body is hollow with a seamed underside; the rear/underside seam has split, leaving a torn strand of the red plastic protruding.

2025.11.41

2025.11

Purchase

Bulgaria

Eastern Europe

Europe

Maker: Not identified by name; made in Bulgaria. Likely a Bulgarian state toy-enterprise product (inference); no brand mark recorded. Date: No printed date. As a socialist-era Bulgarian (COMECON) import, manufacture most plausibly dates c. 1960s–1980s, though the exact year is unconfirmed.

Materials: Molded plastic — soft/flexible red body; firmer plastic seat figures (cream) and steering wheel (blue). Technique: Molded hollow plastic body (two-part mold with an underside seam); separately molded plastic figures and steering wheel set into the cockpit.

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