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This might have already been mentioned but while at Toys-R-Us this past weekend with the wife I saw Huffy has come out with a new and improved Green Machine! This time it's got a metal tube frame and a rubber front wheel. I remember wearing my plastic front wheel clean thru on my original. I think T-R-U was asking $100. I tried to convince the wife that our 17 month old need this rather than a Little Tikes foot powered truck we came to look at - didn't work though... One of the sales reps said they ride the display model around at night, including their 6'-4" manager - although the box says 180# max. 
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damn that brings back some memories(though quite fuzzy)green machines rock!!!!!!!!!!!
new,new ride!
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Looks like a toy I will have to buy my nephew. Pretty sweet looking! 
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180 lbs??? My 60-lb fourth-grade body was too big for that thing (the original one); I ended up cracking the front wheel straight down the middle. Nice to see they have come up with a new one; hope it's safer. 
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my best friend had that one and i had (about 20 years ago) the DUKES OF HAZZARD big wheel
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Originally posted by contour-mtl:
my best friend had that one and i had (about 20 years ago) the DUKES OF HAZZARD big wheel
I had both. I loved running around on them. Brings back a lot of memories...
I was always doing front wheel "burnouts" that sooner or later wore out the wheel. Back to the store for a new one 
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Originally posted by contour-mtl:
my best friend had that one and i had (about 20 years ago) the DUKES OF HAZZARD big wheel
I had the DUKES BIG WHEEL too that thing was sweet. I think I went though a set or two of wheels on that thing We didn't grow up in the 80s did we. 
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Teee heee, OMG, someone HAD to post about this thing. LOLOLOL. I will admit it, I was a tomboy when I was little, my grandparents got me one. I used to LOVE mine. I had the Dukes one as well.
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Originally posted by CRZYDRVR:
Originally posted by contour-mtl:
my best friend had that one and i had (about 20 years ago) the DUKES OF HAZZARD big wheel
I had both. I loved running around on them. Brings back a lot of memories...
I was always doing front wheel "burnouts" that sooner or later wore out the wheel. Back to the store for a new one
that was the best big wheel ever!!
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Me: Er...It was made by Fords SPECIAL Vehicle Team?
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I had a big wheel and a green machine. Too bad they don't make them anymore. Remember the wheels grinding away? Remember them fading to nothing as the summer wore on?
Oh the good old sharp edged days!
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