With the holidays over, it’s totally legit to take back that sweater than Aunt Elma sent you so you can trade it in on car parts, or booze, or fun car toys. Here at the West Coast headquarters for BangShift.com we did a little of that. See, we dig RC cars, and haven’t had a good running one for a year or so at least. So some horse trading and christmas money means that my office looks just like my garage, with multiple projects in the works. This made us think. What the best car “toy” you have ever gotten? It could have been a present, or something you bought for yourself. Was it one of the plastic see through model engines? And RC car or truck? Slot car track? You name it, we want to hear about it.
So… What’s The Best Car Toy You’ve Ever Gotten?
Pics of the BangShift RC Fleet. Like real projects, one of these doesn’t run or drive at all, and the other two have issues that mean they are not right. But we’re fixing that.
Cox Baja Bug. Even though my parents told me not to try it in the house, I started it in my room on Christmas night. “Just to make sure I knew how to do it” I told them after it woke everyone up at midnight. Filled the room up with smoke, and I didn’t know how to turn it off.
Winter was always RC racing season for me and my Dad, I have not gotten rid of anything but my favorite RC car is still the RC10t I got about 20 years ago. Every part on it has been replaced twice.
As simple as this may sound…the best was a plastic 1/32 toy of a 55 T-Bird that I got when I was around 7 or 8 (Back in the 60’s) I played with that car for years. Even made my first hot rodding change when I put bigger tires on it and made even louder “Vroom Vroom” sounds.
The Pit Change Charger. A 1974 Dodge Charger stock car with parts you can remove and put back on. All the rest of my toys the parts came off but would not go back on.
Strombecker road race set
The Animal and the Rebound RC car.
The Animal
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And the best RC car ever. I don’t think I ever got this thing stuck and if the NiCad battery will take a charge I bet it’d run today.
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I do not remember the manufacture, however I had a model Chevy truck that could be customized in various ways, it was more of a toy than static model. Also my Tyco slot car set that had semis. I remember it having a dump truck, a gravel hopper, and a truck with a trailer.
Had to be my first racetrack ,it was actually made by Matchbox,they tried to compete with Tyco and AFX and had a Gremlin and Pinto stock car. Man it was soooo long ago,I can remember opening the box even. Another was a radio control Corvette that I knocked the Christmas tree over with.
That would be a Tonka pickup which I received when I was about ten in the late ’60’s. I chopped the top with a hacksaw and painted it with some gloss black paint that my dad had in the garage.
I got in trouble for my efforts, but I thought it looked awesome!
That truck started a trend which continues to this day.
Mattel Hot Wheels SIZZLER race set. One car was a GT ford, can’t recall the other. Man I loved that track, banked corner was fast! Around 1970
Cox Pinto F/C which I still have somewhere.
AFX track with Mandatory refueling pit stops which I still have.
Scat Pack Drag City Challengers which I still have.
Ok, Im dating myself here, but waaay back in the mid 60’s I was about 4 or 5 I got the coolest toy ever (at least I thought so). As a gearhead in training I got a plastic replica of a 1950’s style dashboard toy. It was red, about 3 feet across had a windshield,all the chrome switches and knobs and looked just like a scaled down version of any dashboard from that era. I would line it up in front of the TV and search for any show that had a lot of cars or car stuff like Highway Patrol and such. I have a picture of myself with a cowboy hat on in my pajamas in front of the christmas tree and you can see the dashboard toy next to me.
My R/C trucks.
Has to be my first Hot Wheels Snake and Mongoose drag race set. The one where you attached the launch box on a chair or table. Later I got the one that had the pull back rubber band launcher. Mam, sometime we had drag races at my house that would last all weekend just getting through all of mine and my friends cars!
I found some re-released stuff a while back. Had a big race one Christmas in our shop. Had the launch box mounted to the second story window in the shop! ET’s definately improved from the old days!
Thanx for asking the question. You just flooded me with a bunch of great memories!