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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22437 Location: UK

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 Cool

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buzzy bee · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire

Bet your mum thought it was very Cool

!! hehehe

JC T ONE · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark

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?)

My brother had the Blue Matra Jet, both were the Racetuned type.
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22437 Location: UK

TCR (Total Control Racing) was also a favourite, similar to Scalextric.

I've still got my old Formula 1 board game, by Waddingtons, plus a few extra sets bought over the years.

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bob2 · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1727 Location: Malta

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!!

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22437 Location: UK

roverdriver · 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!
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JC T ONE · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark

Some nice stories there Cool

love the pedal car & steam roller Smile

had a stationary steam engine, when I was around 12.
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stuchamp · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 546 Location: Iowa, USA

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. Very Happy

JC T ONE · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22437 Location: UK

Agreed, extremely cool Smile

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.

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roverdriver · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:31 am Post subject:

Rick Wrote-
"I wonder if it was similar to this one? I've not wound it up in a while so I'm not sure what performance it puts on.
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/toy_steamroller.htm"

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.
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