Your favorite toy cars, and what became of them ?

[J4CKO]

I had loads but I wasnt one for sticking them in display cases, they got used and usually destroyed, still have a few left that are mixed in with the kids ones.

I wish I had kept more,

This was great



I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now



Favourite was this,



Ended up like all the rest through, ploughed through too many piles of cardboard boxes.


I was alwasy suspicious of the kids that had them in those cases and didnt want to partake in the rallycross down at the bottom of the garden, complete with mud and tarmac sections, I suspect those guys now have new Volkswagens.

[dave7692]

I once had a Scalextric Mini Cooper that met its end when it came off the track and through some freak incident tumbled down the loft hatch hitting every step on the ladder as it dropped

[northwest monkey]

I had the exact same orange "Baja Bouncer" as you - I loved the "suspension". My son is just getting into Matchbox cars - they don't seem as good as they used to be though but maybe that's me getting old

Unfortunately, I used to have a bit of an addiction for setting stuff on fire when I was about 9 or 10 so most of my Matchbox cars ended up in "pile-ups" in the back garden. Get a few boxes of matches, cut the heads off then fill up a car with the heads.

I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the memories

[tog]

I have a big box of heavily worn cars that sat in the loft for thirty years and my two year old is now gradually destroying.

[J4CKO]

northwest monkey said:

I had the exact same orange "Baja Bouncer" as you - I loved the "suspension". My son is just getting into Matchbox cars - they don't seem as good as they used to be though but maybe that's me getting old

Unfortunately, I used to have a bit of an addiction for setting stuff on fire when I was about 9 or 10 so most of my Matchbox cars ended up in "pile-ups" in the back garden. Get a few boxes of matches, cut the heads off then fill up a car with the heads.

I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the memories

Yeah, the suspension was the major thing with the Baja Bouncer, we had a few of them in different colours, the orange one and I think a blue, maybe a red one.

The "Majorette" branded French toy cars were great as well as they had suspension long before the Baja Bouncer and they tended to do the more standard cars I liked.

[carinaman]

tog said:

I have a big box of heavily worn cars that sat in the loft for thirty years and my two year old is now gradually destroying.

I was a kid like that. I trashed so much of my parent's stuff. I've started admitting to it in public for a few years now. I was such a brat.

[Huff]

I still have some of mine

[DoctorX]

Not cars as such but these were my favourites (apart from the 007 DB5):





Sadly destroyed in the line of duty, although a mint Transit purchased from ebay sits in the loft. Dunno why, just nostalgia I suppose.

[Bonefish Blues]

I remember a De Tomaso Mangusta and a kit car with removable wheels whose name escapes me.

Some petrolhead, eh?

ETA
It was a Marcos. I feel better now.

Edited by Bonefish Blues on Friday 18th October 13:23

Edited by Bonefish Blues on Friday 18th October 13:23

[Timbergiant]

Saw the title and thought Baja Bouncer, bloody good taste OP, still got mine, I painted it black though.

[SWH]

1/10th scale General Lee... jumping it out of my bedroom window onto concrete below recreated the fate of many of the cars from the TV series, somewhat bent. I did it a number of times just to make sure

All the surviving matchbox cars, and garage my old man made, are now heavily used by our two boys when we visit my mother. All of them have lots of paint missing, and seem to have dried mud caked into the back of the wheels - I think they may have been involved in some sort of RAC Rally in the garden recreation in about 1986!

[vrooom]

Oh man, i had one of those baja bouncer. My mum used to buy me matchbox cars every time we shopped in food store...

I used to smash them with brick, and smash it to brick wall, around my dad garage.

[lankybob]

I had so many toy cars, lot's of different scales too. No idea where they are now though. My two favourites were a Ferrari 348 and a GMC tow truck, both Matchbox I think and both 1/62 scale.

My pet hate when younger, from a very early age was people mixing the scales. I wouldn't play cars with others as they used to bring out 1/34 scale and 1/43 scale cars and play with them together. Even worse when it was with the 1.62 ones.

Am I weird?

[graham22]

J4CKO said:

I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now

Mini Ha Ha if I recall, still have a good one in the loft.

I still have my 1970's Scalextric GT40s as well as a Siku Volvo F10 bought with pocket money from the old Whitehouse Truckstop in the late 70's.

Turning to toy cars I didn't like, I also bought a Mack truck from the film Convoy - Rubber Duck.

Like the above made by ITRL, once I opened the box I just didn't like it, some of the wheels wouldn't go round, it was the wrong scale to other trucks so got rarely used & kept in it's box which got more dog eared.

I stuck it on ebay a couple of years ago & it went for £120!! Some of the money was spent on a Mack Mascot and base which sits on my front room shelf now as a mark of respect!!

[Atlas 12v]

J4CKO said:

I had loads but I wasnt one for sticking them in display cases, they got used and usually destroyed, still have a few left that are mixed in with the kids ones.

I wish I had kept more,

This was great

This was my favourite bar none. Testament to this is the fact it's practically bare metal. Still in a box in my parents loft...

[Composite Guru]

I had both of those and loved the bouncy suspension on the truck. lol

J4CKO said:

I had loads but I wasnt one for sticking them in display cases, they got used and usually destroyed, still have a few left that are mixed in with the kids ones.

I wish I had kept more,

This was great



I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now

[surveyor]

Has anyone noticed how solid the cars were in our childhood compared to the plastic tat nowadays?

[thismonkeyhere]

Kept all mine! The kids now have them.

[stott]

My 6 year old has inherited my boxes of toy cars complete with a blue baja bouncer! I like how when you drop it into its wheels it springs about, very cool

[blongs]

The 2 I thought of straight away are

Rover Sterling, two-tone class



and a Volvo 480 (Parents had a Volvo or two growing up but not a 480)



I liked to play with them too much so none were ever pristine for long, I think they were given away by my parents after I had left home to a friend of the family child (along with the RS500 Scalextric set