This year's pinewood derby cars that I built with my boys. Both came in 2nd in their respective dens, both will be going to regionals in March. The"Vader" car came in second overall, the "Skywalker" car won "best paint"!
It should have been sold as a kit where you take a fully ***embled Lincoln and turn it into a parade float.
While going through my Photobucket account I ran across this shot showing a few more of my toys. One tin import, one vinyl El Camino, two Tootsietoys and one of my faves, the black plastic Thunderbird which were made by F&F and included in boxes of Rice Krinkles cereal around 1970 / 71. I have a few different ones and I'm thinking that they're all Fords. I'm not sure if other brands were offered. Now on cereal boxes kids are fortunate to get nutritional information. What's wrong with kids having fun?
quick85, in 1954 you could get a complete hot rod model kit for 50 cents and a Kellogs box top, even came with a tube of glue! This really beat the hell out of some nutritional facts. Mick
I don't know if this one is old NOS or some sort of repop. there was someone selling a bunch of them in different colors a while back. none of them had wheels.
these are pretty cool. made by Revell in 1952 before they started making kits. I have another one in the box.
playing with toys in the garage today, added a roll bar, pipes and paint to an old Nylint to look a little like a certain old hot rod
'Put together another "phantom" Nylint, pulled the fenders and hacked the hood from a roadster, bent up an engine room floor and firewall, put an engine from a roadster pickup in it and chopped a windshield frame for another version they could have made.
A couple recent additions to the collection. The Stock Car is a ERTL diecast. The black plastic roadster is Korris Kars and has an electric motor.
I begged and begged my parents for this for Christmas. It was called Sparkin Hot Rods. It was a slot car set that came with a good in the dark 57 Bel Aire, and 40 deluxe and on the back tires was a little piece of flint. The goal was to get the rear end lose around the corners so the back tires would hot the guard rail and make it spark. Sent from my XT1254 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Picked this up at a local shop called Cal's Collectables last week. It's not a model car, just a cheap old funky plastic toy that someone painted black.
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