Hot Wheels

I like that story-those days were so cool! I'm posting up a few old photos of Christmas with Tonka photobombs in them.

 

I'll bet you'll remember these Wolf


Remember the "Johnny Express" remote control bigrig?

And this one shows that Johnny Express and those Tonks still fastened on their cardboard

 

Had the car hauler and that same set of three,the loader, dump and cement truck also had the grader crane and dozer.

 

Here's a better shot of that last pic

 

Damn we were spoiled and lived in good times,no cell phones or video games,could play outside unsupervised until dark safely and even ride our bikes without safety equipment...lol

 

Man I could go all night about that!

 

That makes two of us but let's not derail this thread to far down memory lane...

 

Like me and my buddy would hop on the Schwinns and ride from my town, Itasca, Ill. all the way down Rte. 19 to O'Hare airport to watch jets...almost a half-day! Come home in time for dinner and not a question asked about where we been!

 

True but this thread is already riding on the ballast

 

Yep,grab the BB gun, a tube of BB's hop on the Stingray with the BB gun slung over my shoulder from a piece of rope. Ride about 3 miles to a patch of woodland where we all hung out and had a "BMX" track with a dirt mound jump and tree fort about 50' up in an old old oak tree. Couldn't do that these day without getting the cops called and hauled in for trespassing ect...

 

Fun memories brother! we'll catch this tomorrow!

 

Good chatting with ya

 

maybe not but every now and then I run into someone selling off his entire collection and you can get it cheap. Especially when they are open. That last 100% vw I posted I bought for $2

 

these are some really cool old photos. its great you still have a lot of the cars you played with when you were a kid. I didn't have many Tonka or other trucks but I had a lot of hot wheels. don't have any of them today just the 4 corgi race cars I posted a few pages back.

 

Heading out to this show tomorrow. Hope to swap out some of the cars that I don’t want for some missing Porsche cars.

 

Wish it was closer I love going to the Hot Wheels shows. Go to a lot of toy shows up this way that have a little of everything but like the hot wheels shows more.

 

Remember running home from school every day with my brother to watch this show.

 

Dude! We lived in Japan for awhile and I watched it as reruns with a different name in Japanese! It blew my mind when we got stateside and I saw it in English. It was my favorite show after “COMBAT! with Vic Morrow.”

 

I have a good memory for numbers and song lyrics for some reason and the Speed Racer song lyrics are still in my head from all those years of it being on our TV at 3:30PM every day.

 

This is why I stopped collecting about 10 years ago-I have too many! Otherwise I'd probably be picking up some new ones. I have run across some really neat cars at sales but I just pass.