66Monacovert
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That could be the reason why both my Mopars are white..
The toys that made a difference to you...
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I played Pong in a bar once. Pretty much the highlight of my gaming experience.
70bigblockdodge
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Ah sizzlers those were great I had the fat track with the big high banked turns probably drove my parents nutz with the constant repetitive hitting the turns I can hear it in my head now.
72Fury
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I never saw a Cotton Picker, that had to be really rare. One friend had a Cherry Picker with a rear disc brake. Kinda funny, drum front, rear disc. My favorite toy as a kid, was building models. I could stand all day in an aisle looking at those. Remember the see thru V8? And the even larger frame & wheels that could go with it?
70bigblockdodge
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The model isle at k-mart, hills, childrens palace walkup and down that isle pick a good one that you could put the optional race car mods on, skinny tires wtf, tossed. Better yet buy two like a funny car and a regular car put the funny car engine in regular car.
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Late to the party on this one but a great thread! I had Hot Wheels and Matchbox and loved them, still have quite a Johnny Lightning collection currently boxed up. I built dozens of models and still have a lot of them in a couple of big boxes that are more than likely turning into loose parts more than the complete cars they used to be. I used to wear out the front wheels on the Big Wheels one after another, that's a great one!
better late than never matt.
yes, you seem to be the right number of years younger than me to have had a "Big Wheel". all those youthful, pedal powered "burnouts" chewed up the front wheel huh?
http://originalbigwheel.us/History.html
i wanted everything to look like "Bad Man"...but loved all the Monogram models. Paddy Wagon, Beer Truck, Pie Wagon, Red Baron, Boot Hill Express...the list is endless
Ripinator
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When I was nine years old, my father (Santa) gave me this brand new Shelby bicycle. I remember at the time feeling like I had been totally liberated, because I could ride it anywhere I wanted. Also, I had to perform all the maintenance on it, fix the flat tires (there were many) and install master links in the several broken chains. That is when I became a gearhead. . .
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70NPORT
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The guy with the pipe is killing me.this is the one I remember doing in the 1960's
bulldogchesty
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patrick66
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Robert Young. Too easy.
sorry, my deletion and your post crossed in cyberspace. yes, that was the guy :sSig_thanks:
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Nothing wrong about a man with a pipe.
Again, lotta cool toys/stories. thank you all for those things.
i suspect there are lotsa tinkerers and builders among us folks who never lost our enthusiasm for vehicles. a lot of us seemed to like things that went fast, needed our bodies and minds to bring them "alive", involved us with our families, etc.
I dont think there's a 'measurable" correlation between the toys of youth and those of adulthood. Heck I had a favorite baseball glove and "record" player too..I still like cars today but never seriously played baseball since HS (I still have my parents/my high school & college "33's amd 45's" tho along with my 70's Pioneer-brand matched components).
But there seems to be many toys that today's car fans had in common as kids. Hey, not trying to be amateur psychologist here..just an observation. :icon_cheese:
Like Ripinator says above, and like I remember too, these toys may have "totally liberated" some of us with that feeling of motion and freedom and speed, and the sense of places real and imagined we could go. And they ..these toys.. looked cool too.
Seems natural that some of us have kept a life-long passion for the vehicles we like? Anyway, we'll see if this thread has any legs.
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Built all these.. and more. still have em, though like detmatt says about the ones he still has, they might be more pieces in storage than I would like.
70NPORT
Old Man with a Hat
the Miralax Man.Nothing wrong about a man with a pipe.
70NPORT
Old Man with a Hat
The put Whitewalls on everything in the 50's
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