Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 11987 Location: S. Cheshire
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject: Earliest toy car/motorcycle recollections?
I remember having a lot of fun with a wind-up Evel Knievel toy motorcycle. You'd sit the bike on top of this windy-uppy thing, and spin the handle on the side vigorously. The 'bike would then leap down the ramp and go hurtling across the kitchen floor.
Another 'bike in a similar vein used to leave rubber marks across the lino, very
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Various 1930s-1960s relics - Austin, Morris, Bedford, Dodge etc.
The earliest I recall, was a summerday, on our lawn.
There was a Red open car, not shure if it was big enough to sit in ? or if it was plastic or metal ? but fairly big.
I must have been around 3 or 4 at the time.
Next was the Green Scalextric Jaguar D type I had for christmas (1966/67 app?)
Most I remember was a pedal car (go kart shape) I had when about 3 or 4, a metal frame with no bodywork, a plastic seat and a racing number on the front, my cousin same age as me had one identical but with a different number and we used to race each other around!!
Do not know what happened to it, wish I'd kept it now as I'd have restored it for my daughter to use!!
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 11987 Location: S. Cheshire
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:10 am Post subject:
bob2 wrote:
Most I remember was a pedal car (go kart shape) I had when about 3 or 4, a metal frame with no bodywork, a plastic seat and a racing number on the front, my cousin same age as me had one identical but with a different number and we used to race each other around!!
Do not know what happened to it, wish I'd kept it now as I'd have restored it for my daughter to use!!
That sounds similar to the "Kettcar" one I had - great fun!
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Various 1930s-1960s relics - Austin, Morris, Bedford, Dodge etc.
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 495 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:
Ahh- memories! In 1949 I had a tinplate clockwork trolley bus. After winding, it would run forwards for a short distance, then pause (waiting for tiny invisible passengers to board) then run forwards and stop again, repeating this for some considerable distance.
At the same time, I had a green clockwork tinplate steamroller. It would roll backwards and forwards over the same piece of carpet three or four times, then roll forwards to attack another section of carpet, repeating the performance until the spring was unwound, or it reached a wall.
Alas those two toys somehow got lost in the move to Australia at the end of '49, however I still have a Victory Industries 'Miss England' put-put boat. I believe that these were only made for a year or two, then the same hull was fitted with either a clockwork or battery motor.
Lastly was my pedal car, left behind in England in '49
I had my 5th Birthday somewhere between Columbo and Fremantle!
My folks, in those days, had a little bit of money from a win on the football pools, alas in Oz the funds soon disappeared through some bad luck and some mismanagement, so from then on I had to make my own playthings, one of which was a wooden wheelbarrow, with the wheel made from a 2 inch slice off a nice round tree trunk! _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking.
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 512 Location: Iowa, USA
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:55 pm Post subject:
Not my earliest but definitely my favorite.
Marx Indy slot car set from the early 60's.
I wore out the original but was able to buy the exact same set on ebay a few years ago.
Not my earliest but definitely my favorite.
Marx Indy slot car set from the early 60's.
I wore out the original but was able to buy the exact same set on ebay a few years ago.
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 11987 Location: S. Cheshire
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:05 pm Post subject:
Agreed, extremely cool
Anyone else remember the sonic-controlled cars of the 1970s? I must dig some out from the cellar, as I've been looking out for examples to replace those I had.
RJ _________________ Rick (Admin. oldclassiccar.co.uk)
Various 1930s-1960s relics - Austin, Morris, Bedford, Dodge etc.
Sorry, Rick, not like that one. Mine was definitely a depiction of a steamer with a proper funnel and no canopy.
Re proper steam engines, I still have one that was given to my older brother in a bout 1947. It is not a Mamod, but is a single-acting one like Mamod. The transfer emblem was of an Indian chieftains head. I must get it out and take some photos. _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking.
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had a stationary steam engine, when I was around 12.
sorry, dont remember.
