Picked this one up at an antique show last weekend...the box is killer. Would've passed on it without the box...
The Model T was my 3rd birthday present. My first memory is picking that Model T hot Rod out at the Gibson's department store. It lived a rough life and probably died quickly and violently. I don't remember what happened to it. Most of my toys did not survive my BB gun obsession that passed through a few years later. This one is an eBay replacement. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
BEFORE kids had computer games....the expression on their faces brings back the joy of getting a new hard rubber, steel or iron truck for a birthday present.
Looking for a toy possibly made by Ideal. It was a 3 tier plastic race track maybe 12 inches high and about 16 inches left to right shaped like 2 figure 8 stacked one on top of the other. Two cars would start at the top and they would race downhill in 2 figure 8 patterns to the bottom. The cars were open wheel like a Indy car with a steel ball snapped in place in the middle and underneath car. The ball is what made the car roll down the track. Cars were 3-4 different colors and were about 1 inch long and two small pins would hold car in its own lane. Middle 1960's era. Jeff
Here's a couple I picked up the other day:a 1959 Ford Ranchero dealer promo and a Hasbro Amaze-A-Matics aero Corvette.I'm not sure how many versions of the Hasbro were available;this is the second variation I have. For those not familiar with them,they were an early version of a computer controlled car;the "computer" being a piece of cardboard with a series of notches in both sides that was fed into a slot in the bottom front of the car and when turned on was pulled through by gears;the notches telling the car to turn left or right or go in a circle.I have a set of cards from the first one I bought.
I saw this Nylint/custom hot rod and the Mattel Outhouse today on a shelf in an old crap store....pretty cool. The guy just gave me the Outhouse. He wanted a little too much for the roadster....
Never saw that grill on this model! One on right! Windshield does not have bars either? I had the comet version as a kid!
^^^^I had one something like the one above when I was a kid that said "Old fords never die" on the trunk lid, I found this off topic one like I had also while searching for a pic of that one I had. Like I said I know this is off topic but I bet I wasnt the only one here that snagged one of these off the shelf as a kid.
I haven't looked at this thread for some time now, but I have to say a BIG THANKS to rbantique for this pictures in post 371. I have had one of those Speed King streamliners for years, but is missing the wheels and front fenders, and have up to now not known what they look like. Hopefully I can scratch something together to look half decent now. Thanks again Michael
Here's a neat little Auburn Rubber Co. 1935 Ford coupe I picked up at a not-automotive flea market last Sunday for $4.00 !
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