Couple more, the Lotus race car not tin but early plastic, didn't think you would mind. Looks like it's probably model of Jim Clarkes Indy winning car from 65.
This was pictured with a child's doll; you can just see her feet. October 1955; photo by R. Donaldson'; ACP & CP; Mitchell Library & State Library of New South Wales
Stuff i pulled out of a falling down barn . The 5 gallon square oil can in tact was a surprise . Usually the tops are cut out .
I got a pair of these trucks last week, that will let me go original with one, and custom with the other. From the limited research I did, I believe they are Marx, one still has the tow truck winch in it. They will have to hide in the basement until winter.
I don't know a kid that didn't make prank calls like that to the local liquor store. Speaking as a person that worked in my family's liquor store for 15+ years as a kid, I will say...it's not that the person answering the phone didn't know what was coming, that's the oldest prank in the book! It was more that you have to try and be nice to people as you don't know if it's a legitimate customer or not. It was easier for me to just hang up without saying anything and tell whoever was working with me that they must have hung up before I answered.
Ok, that Prince Albert joke got me to remember this Half & Half tin. The ironic thing and why I actually bought it was because I'm building my retirement in Buckingham Park, CA. I thought it would be cool to have on the mantle... Those leaves kinda look like cannabis with odd number of leaves...DAMHIKT (it's legal in Cali nowadays! ) This tin pulls up and extends above the text, you can see the rib below the top. Mine is stuck though...I like old $#!T.
So- as a consolation prize for not venturing to Autorama this year I picked up this “as found” truck and trailer, for the humble hoard of tin toys.
Simoniz, did people really wax floors with this? Lenkite was developed with the help of a scientist at the University of Chicago, a man Joe Lencki met while working at Dodge Chicago, the plant where Pratt- Whitney engines were built for the B-29. Joe and his wife originally blended and bottled (!) it in their garage. Eventually the formula was sold by a successor of Joe’s and was re-branded as Z-Max. It started as the Speedway Cocktail in glass bottles, then they used cans with the bottle cap as seen in the first picture and lastly the screw caps.
New to me last week. It says Japan on the bottom. Looks like a Buick hood and Cadillac rear quarters to my uneducated self.
Here is one that not everyone will be familiar with. Labelling is bilingual so likely made after 1976. Kiwi is more recognized for shoe polish. Pretty dirty for a can of cleaner.
The Jalopy Journal
