Retro-Futuro Homemade Green and Silver Painted Wooden Toy Car vintage faux food Made of a hard composite/bakelite

Made of a hard composite/bakelite

The shiniest bits are at the centers of their bases

with two fingers of one hand pointing heavenward

At first look it seemed perhaps to be a shop sign

At some point someone added a wire on the back in order to hand this on the wall

Retro-Futuro Homemade Green and Silver Painted Wooden Toy Car vintage faux food Made of a hard composite/bakeliteI'm a sucker for a scratch made toy car, and love the streamlined aspirations of this silver and green painted one, which I have to imagine an adolescent boy imagined speeding along at 100 miles an hour, though those hand carved wooden wheels don't roll especially smoothly! Found near Lake George in Upstate NY, c. 1940 50s or so I would guess. 8 1 2 x 3 3 4 w x 1 1 4 t and in well loved condition, sturdy and sound. Probably there was once a steering