For kids two and older, we had an eye-catching Gendron Pioneer Roadster pedal car made by Pedal Car Classics of San Mateo, California. For kids three and older, we tried the Gaucho Grande from Peg ...

There was a pedal car manufacturer called Gendron that hired a designer named Brooks Stevens who later designed the Jeep Wagoneer, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and redesigned the 1962 Studebaker Hawk.

and the remnants of that business — about 60 children’s cars, from a turn-of-the-20th century pedal-powered Gendron to a gas-fueled junior Jaguar — are up for auction, too. So are boxes of ...