Direction-converting device for a toy car

A direction-converting device having a neutral position-restoring and position-retaining function for a toy car having a horizontal base, which comprises an electromagnet means having an excitable iron core with its opposite sides being energizable to different polarities directed to the same direction, and a permanent magnet means having opposite end faces with different polarities, said electromagnet means being disposed oppositely to said magnet means on said car base, one core portion of said electromagnet means at its free end having a width equal to or larger than the width of the opposed end of said permanent magnet means, one of said magnet means being fixed to one end of a controlling element arranged at a mid portion of a steering element swingably secured to the car base, the other magnet means being fixed to the car base, said electromagnet means and said permanent magnet means being arranged so that the neutral position of said steering element may be restored and retained through an attractive relation between said permanent magnet means and said one core portion of the electromagnet means upon deenergization of the latter.