Remember when

They're still available at hesstoytruck.com, and on Amazon.

 

Reminds me of my beloved die cast Corgi Major Mack Truck when I was a kid in the 70’s. Loved that thing. Most favourite toy. Was able to purchase one off of eBay 15 years ago. Still have it.

 

That Mack is known as an "R" model.

 

How many of you got things like the toy cars with your S&H green stamps???

 

Don’t remember getting toys but mom had them and gold stamps

 

My first job out of college I had a company car (a new Chevy Impala gas hog). At that time many gas stations offered 10 times S&H or Blue Chip stamps. I use to put between 800 to 1200+ miles a week on it plus I used it for personal use (the company was generous) I filled the tank 4 or 5 times a week at company expense and collected 10x S&H stamps or Blue Chip stamps each time. I had grocery bags full of stamp books. I furnished my first apartment redeeming the stamps. Everything from kitchen pots and pans , dishes, vacuum cleaner, nice lamps, and on and on. Got a coffee table, 2 end tables and a bunch I don’t remember. I also got tools and various other things. Even some camping equipment. Quit that job after a year but thanks to that company and the stamps my apartment was beautiful. The stamps were green and I believe they were called S&H Green stamps. All these years later I still have some of the things I got with those stamps including a set of open end wrenches.

 

Love it.
That's how I got my first baseball glove.

 

I still have one of those from Howard Johnsons.

 

Always loved those displays..still do

 

I recently had to replace the belts on my Sony TC-WE475... A great machine with those wonderful VFD's...
My Onkyo TX-27 isn't as busy.
My Dual 1225 doesn't have a display at all...

 

We still use them, hard to find a set with bowls anymore.

 

I just realized that I started working on real cars and bicycles at an early age, and I never really had toy cars. I had a Tonka dump truck, a Cox slot car, a Cox .049 dune buggy, a pinewood derby car . . . but that was it.

I had an electric train, but not much track. I was really into building model airplanes, from balsa, since 10 years old. I had a lot of model airplanes, but only 3 with engines.

I still have a few little toy cars given me by others though.






Edit,… I forgot about building the Wacky Woody model and the Fury III model, back in 1965. Those things never really meant much to me, and I didn’t keep them around long. Being with the Air Force, we moved a lot, and there were a lot of things that I didn’t keep long.

 

I only remember seeing The Aardvark and the Ant one time, at a drive-in movie theater out by Glendale Arizona.

I don’t recall which movie, but I think it was some Disney movie about a cat that has nine lives and goes to cat heaven.

My little sister loved that movie, but I can’t for the life of me recall the name of it.

 

I always associated that music with Vanguard.

https://youtu.be/MXPuADHs5RU?si=loxOVVilPkD-X-qS

 

Me too. I especially liked them in orange.


I also like the digital displays on certain cars.

 

Orange is good, it matches my cats. And definitely, I thought about getting the digital dash for my 84 Camaro back then. Always was a sucker for the KITT car

Pioneer is a longtime favorite, still have my receiver and 101 CD player

 

Your not right.

 

Well how about this one then….