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Charlie McCarthy and his Benzine Buggy
MarxMonocled figure dressed in black in a black crazy jeep
- Type
- Cars
- Topic
- Character
- Country of manufacture
- USA
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- "crazy jeep": goes forward, reverse, spins, stands on the two rear wheels, turns head
- Materials
- Tin
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 18x7x17
- Condition
- Excellent
- Manufactured
- 1938 – 1950
Research notes
based on the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (friend of Marx); original price $.49; ; a variant has a red and white steering wheel
