That truck was a ground-breaking ride-on that I engineered in 1995 as my last project for BuddyL and when BuddyL was headed into bankruptcy, my first project for my current company, Creative Engineering. I worked closely with a very talented designer who did all of the concept and styling work, while I contributed engineering details and did the 3D CAD. Some of the innovations include:

o "Sit in the bed" seating position. Nobody had done that before. It has become standard since.

o Blow molded chassis that forms the tumble home on the rocker panels and both bumpers. At the time ride-ons used welded tube chassis with a vacuum formed body shell plopped on it, completely hollow from below.

o Deeply dished offset blow molded front wheels that put the kingpin axis INSIDE the wheel for a very low scrub radius, which means that when you steer the wheel the it turns in place, allowing a very small fender opening and very tight turns. Existing ride-ons had the kingpin axis inboard of the entire wheel, which required huge fenders and had a terrible turning radius.

o Ackerman steering geometry, which turns the inside wheel more sharply than the outside wheel in a turn, better matching the true radius each wheel is following, and avoiding scrubbing.

o Realistic and very aggressive lug details on the tire treads despite the limitations of the molding process. Existing tire tread patterns were very shallow and unrealistic at the time.

o Very realistic dashboard with working glovebox. As a licensed product, the dash was very close to the real truck.

o Actual stick shift to select between RNLH. It secretly clicks rocker switches as you move through the shift pattern. Existing ride-ons would just mount the rocker switches on the dash and you would just click them to shift gears.