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Originally Posted by shorty943
What ever happened to the good old days, when we used to slap together an old billy cart or soap box racer or what ever you wanted to call them, and go pick on a bloody suicidally big hill.
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Suitable pram wheels and axles (Silvercross preferably) have been unavailable since the mid 1980s. I built or helped build more than a few of those.
We also used to raid the dump at the local Becton Dickinson plant for the 250ml syringes, they made great water pistols. The fact that some of them had needles seemed to worry our parents though.
There was also a tobogan, I think we planned to use the curved suspension from one of the Silvercross prams for that, but the only testing ground we had was a 12 foot mound of jelly cement. That project was aborted, as was the dug out canoe that wouldn't have cleared the bottom of the local river, er... trickle.