Got old toys sitting around?

looking to add some things from my childhood to my collection

 

I hope you find them. Your first pic, the top left corner, I picked up that Dodge horse hauler this past summer for $1 at our local swap 'n' shop that happens every week end at our local race track in summer months. I've picked up hords of old Husky, Corgie, Dinky, and match box toys from there dirt cheap.

I'm guessing now but I think it was 1972 and for Xmas a relitive gave me this..(this pic is from the net)


My Mom decided it was to be a indoor toy only because it was so nice, I remember that just killing me. It did'nt see much play time because I was never indoors. Years went by, forgot all about it, we moved to the coast, etc. It now was my daughters 2-3rd Xmas and I had a big present from my Mom.....It was this truck and trailer as mint as in this pic. I have no idea how,where or why but she stashed it close to 20 years and gave it back to me. It now lives on a shelf in my shop just as mint as in this picture.

Thanx Mom

 

So I take it wives don't count as a toy????

 

I had a few Matchbox and Dinky vehicles when I was a young, but I mostly played with the 'regular size' Tonka trucks - lots of dirt in the backyard, and they were really too big to play indoors with.

Anybody have one of those wind-up Schuco (sp?) racers?

 

Unless your's is older than mine!

 

Yeah I am still a little kid!

 

Lets see my wife is 54. Kids are grown too... Me thinks I need a warmer climate.

 

found this last week at the antique store,...guess I'm gettin old I had one of these as a child

 

Looks like you were a Structo kid. Tonka vs. Structo - kinda like Fords vs. Chevies.......

 

Just that one Structo....all the rest are Tonka's!!:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

Nice Colection BB!

 

Thankya Sire!!! Every time I see a decent Tonka for sale I buy it! Just more stuff to take care of though. they all need dusted again.

 

Hmmm.... I must be losin' it......
Anyway, my Tonkas were the older body style - most looked like '55 Fords........

 

K.K. I thought all yer toyz waz PRE-TONKA 'N CAST IRON MERRY CHRISTMAS Pal, an keep your sunny side up. We ain't catz an we ain't got 9 lives either

 

My wife and I were chatting about today's toys and our toys when we were kids. Seems that both our fathers made the family toys, for the most part. Lasted for years. She still has some at the family home in Mexico, mine got lost with my folks moving to BC in 1975.

Anyway, I found this excellent list of DIY toys:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/toys.aspx