Sorry about my crappy phone cam, it doesn't look that bad in person. Just look at the patina, and still has the original motor!
That was fast! Having the original toy/collectible that you played with decades ago easily surpasses having a mint example purchased on eBay.
heh, heh, IMHO there are very few numbers matching Hot Wheels 1957 Nomad's left. Engine and tranny swaps were a big thing back then. Yep, it would take all evening, the smell of model glue permeating the house. Love it. What is neat is that your kids play with it. Now and then as we troll through antique shops they have one or two of them but they want like ten bucks or more for one that every kid in the neighborhood played with it seems and you have to have a good imagination to see what it was when it was actually in the original shape.
Man, what I wouldn't give to have the toys and models of my youth...... - Tonka Trucks (the original sized metal ones, not the small ones or the plastic cr** that came later) - Tinkertoys - Lionel trains - AMT models Every once in a while, I'll see a pic on the internet of some toy car or some such that I had, and it's instant deja vu......
Uncles on both sides of the family gave me real metal toys. Cement trucks with hand cranks and things like that. Original Lional trains. Sadly when I moved out mom decided they were just old crap, like my many old comic books and matchbook collection. At that time they were! Whaaaaa I could have retired many years sooner and owned my own island filled with station wagons.
I remember having a mostly plastic Tonka dump truck when I was a little kid in the mid 90s. I still have it in the basement, tucked away in the "junk room". With the times it literally got THROWN outside in my dad's temper fits and what not, I think it has survived much better than a metal one would. Metal is classic, but a metal truck, in my childhood, would have been rusted out and flattened.
Rev still remembers when he turned 40 so I suppose someone who was a kid that far back would remember their Tonka toy..........
We recently moved back to the house i grew up in. While cleaning the basement found some matchbox i (destroyed) as a kid. That started a collection ones i had then ones to complete the lot.
