You see that largest yellow Tonka dump truck? They were tough toys. The neighbor's young kid left one in the gravel cul-de-sac in Fairbanks, Alaska trailer court. It cut the sidewall on a rear tire when I backed over it. Tonka Toy defeats 1976 Ford F-150 4x4. And I think they straightened up the toy. I had to get a new tire. Funnier than fiction
,,,And you look at all these toys; well loved, well used, and still intact! ANYTHING that can survive a young boy deserves a place at the head of the table!
I was driving my yellow dump around under the trees between our house and the neighbor one evening. Hit a root and bit through my tongue. That hurt like blazes.... When I saw Payback with Mel Gibson, I knew exactly what was gonna happen when he plugged in the mouth guard...
I loved those trucks---many interstate roads were built in those gravel driveways. Laughed my ass off at Rods experience - you know those trucks were tough as Pete said --head of the table they all go.
I have three kids who all learned to walk by pulling themselves up and toddling behind one of those big ol' Tonka yellow dump trucks. It was mine when I was a kid 30+ years earlier.
Thanks for the example that inflation has been been destroying the quality of this country for a very long time. Toys like these were made of metal. Nixon made the final break with the gold standard in '73. Thus began the process of printing monopoly money. Profit margins began to shrink. Goodbye metal, hello plastic.
Back in the early 1990s friend of one saw a big steel Tonka dump truck sitting by a neighbor's trash can and retrieved it. It is beige instead of Tonka yellow, for some reason. It was a bit dusty, but otherwise perfect.
He took it home, washed it, and it still sits on his coffee table as a candy dish.
We had all the cool toys back in the late 60s. Tonkas, the original Hot Wheels, Creepy Crawlers, Mat Mason, Original G.I. Joes, Lionel trains, Marx and Mattel toy guns. One gun was a machine gun/grenade launcher and a pistol. When I was dating my wife, the question came up as to what toys we wanted as a kid but never received under the Christmas Tree. My wife wanted a Chatty Cathy doll and I wanted the Tonka crane. It took me a few years to find her item. I gave it to her when I found out that she had a new Tonka crane...in the original box. That was the best Christmas ever.
You see that largest yellow Tonka dump truck? They were tough toys. The neighbor's young kid left one in the gravel cul-de-sac in Fairbanks, Alaska trailer court. It cut the sidewall on a rear tire when I backed over it. Tonka Toy defeats 1976 Ford F-150 4x4. And I think they straightened up the toy. I had to get a new tire. Funnier than fiction
ReplyDeleteI have a yellow dump truck & a back hoe.
ReplyDeleteI have those two and the bulldozer, a Tonka D.0125. ;p
Delete,,,And you look at all these toys; well loved, well used, and still intact! ANYTHING that can survive a young boy deserves a place at the head of the table!
ReplyDeleteI was driving my yellow dump around under the trees between our house and the neighbor one evening. Hit a root and bit through my tongue. That hurt like blazes.... When I saw Payback with Mel Gibson, I knew exactly what was gonna happen when he plugged in the mouth guard...
ReplyDeleteCheck out Rescue & Restore on YT: https://youtu.be/SyWxgkQ_3OM
ReplyDeleteHe does beautiful work.
Very cool!! Those were the days
ReplyDeleteI loved those trucks---many interstate roads were built in those gravel driveways. Laughed my ass off at Rods experience - you know those trucks were tough as Pete said --head of the table they all go.
ReplyDeleteI have three kids who all learned to walk by pulling themselves up and toddling behind one of those big ol' Tonka yellow dump trucks. It was mine when I was a kid 30+ years earlier.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone remember the Tonka dump truck ad where an elephant steps on it, and it wasn’t damaged? Now kids just stare at screens, very sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the example that inflation has been been destroying the quality of this country for a very long time. Toys like these were made of metal. Nixon made the final break with the gold standard in '73. Thus began the process of printing monopoly money. Profit margins began to shrink. Goodbye metal, hello plastic.
ReplyDeleteI had the big yellow dump truck back in the early sixties. Denizen of the sandbox it was.
ReplyDeleteHey, those were the excavation, hauling and emergency machinery of my sandbox youth!
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The big yellow Tonka truck hauled many, many tons of sand at my place !!
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 1990s friend of one saw a big steel Tonka dump truck sitting by a neighbor's trash can and retrieved it. It is beige instead of Tonka yellow, for some reason. It was a bit dusty, but otherwise perfect.
ReplyDeleteHe took it home, washed it, and it still sits on his coffee table as a candy dish.
We had all the cool toys back in the late 60s. Tonkas, the original Hot Wheels, Creepy Crawlers, Mat Mason, Original G.I. Joes, Lionel trains, Marx and Mattel toy guns. One gun was a machine gun/grenade launcher and a pistol. When I was dating my wife, the question came up as to what toys we wanted as a kid but never received under the Christmas Tree. My wife wanted a Chatty Cathy doll and I wanted the Tonka crane. It took me a few years to find her item. I gave it to her when I found out that she had a new Tonka crane...in the original box. That was the best Christmas ever.
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