Spring powered car with lockout mechanism

A toy car comprising:

• a base;
• a plurality of wheels arranged to support the base for rolling movement over a surface;
• a drive train including a spring, the drive train mounted to the base and operatively coupled to at least one of the wheels by at least one drive gear, at least a portion of the drive gear surrounded by a set of teeth;
• a post shiftably mounted to the base and moveable between a first position and a second position;
• and
• a pawl shiftably mounted to the base and responsive to movement of the post, the pawl arranged to prevent rotation of the drive gear when the post is in the first position, the pawl further arranged to permit rotation of the drive gear when the post is in the second position.

A toy car comprising:

• a base;
• a plurality of wheels arranged to support the base for rolling movement over a surface;
• a spring-powered drive train carried by the base and operatively coupled to at least one of the wheels and having at least one rotatable drive gear, the drive gear including a set of teeth;
• a post shifably mounted to the base and moveable between a first position and a second position, the post including a camming surface;
• and
• a pawl carried by the base and including a camming surface, the camming surface of the post and the camming surface of the pawl arranged to shift the pawl into engagement with the teeth of the drive gear in response to movement of the post to the first position, the pawl arranged to shift away from the drive gear in response to movement of the post to the second position.