What was your favorite toy car?

[Coelacanth]

I had a lot of fun with this RC trike my parents brought back from a trip to Japan. Their RC stuff back in about 1981 was WAY ahead of its time. This RC trike even predated Tamiya's Wild Willy. More details here where I posted this on a vintage RC forum I'm a member of:

Introducing Buggy Boy Wheelie!! - RC10Talk - The Net's Largest Vintage R/C Community

It had a battery pack in the seat that you could position either down (for speed) or up (for wheelies). I still have it and everything works, even the headlight. I've never seen anything like it since, though Cox made a more basic-looking trike RC back around that time, but it didn't have any of the wheelie features.

 

[autoxcuda]

Mine was definitely slot cars. My Lamborghini set from late 80s came with a red and yellow Diablo.

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You bet ! Loved those.

 

[Belvedere408]

You bet ! Loved those.

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That one is bad ***.

 

[threewood]

I had a Starsky & Hutch CB radio car that I loved.

 

[autoxcuda]

That one is bad ***.

I have a lap counter too but the linkage is messed up.

 

[64BEL]

Mattel Spin Welder 1974 (I was 10 then):
Spinwelder

That one I did have! Not the race car but some other version.

 

[autoxcuda]

That one I did have! Not the race car but some other version.

Did it shoot out melted plastic to act at "weld" ?

 

[copper67sat]

I had a lot of Hot Wheels and Sizzlers. I also had several SSPs, but my favorites of those were the Super Stockers - I had a purple and a slime green one and the Smash Up Derby cars. Those are all long gone.

I also had an Aurora/AFX slot car set. Still have the cars. My favorite was always the hemi wing car which is actually a Tyco.

 

[trishhritz]

I had a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang die cast that we got in a box of cereal. There were 5 of us and mom said the next one to get sick would get it. Sometime later - not right away- I got sick and got the car - my siblings all thought I was faking. No surprise when Chitty disappeared.

 

[64BEL]

Did it shoot out melted plastic to act at "weld" ?

I'll have to try to remember. I think I might even still have it.

 

[guy gadbois]

One that sticks in my mind was a Jaguar XKE. It came packaged on top of a peanut butter jar. I was still a preschooler. I lost it but I thought we'd find it when we moved at age 5 but no luck. I had a split-window Corvette about 10" long. It was was made of tin and had a friction motor. I found one on ebay 25 years ago and paid $100, but it was in really good shape. I had a matchbox Ferrari I really liked but I don't know which Ferrari model it was. We covered toy guns so what cars did you like?

IF the Ferrari was green and had wire wheels, it was a 250 GTL. [the prettiest production car ever btw] Have 2 of them
Hafta think about my favourite toy car ever tho.... Gimme a few minutes. Or hours.

 

[autoxcuda]

I had a lot of Hot Wheels and Sizzlers. I also had several SSPs, but my favorites of those were the Super Stockers - I had a purple and a slime green one and the Smash Up Derby cars. Those are all long gone.

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I also had an Aurora/AFX slot car set. Still have the cars. My favorite was always the hemi wing car which is actually a Tyco.
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I’ve got an NOS #7 Daytona AFX.

 

[SteveSS]

I looked that one up. It's cool but the one thing I remember was it had two grille openings. Maybe this...but I thought it was green.

About 25 years ago I bought my first large scale die cast. It was a Ford Explorer. Now I have about a hundred 1:18th scale cars. I used to buy them at Toys R Us for $30. Now they're $125 IF you can find them. I have all the original boxes in the attic. You've seen the recent die cast Mopars I bought from the widow. I think I have 25 1:18th 1969 Chargers. I bet I have every color produced. My most recent one from her is a 1:18th Plum Crazy Demon.

 

[autoxcuda]

I looked that one up. It's cool but the one thing I remember was it had two grille openings. Maybe this...but I thought it was green.

View attachment 1900626 About 25 years ago I bought my first large scale die cast. It was a Ford Explorer. Now I have about a hundred 1:18th scale cars. I used to buy them at Toys R Us for $30. Now they're $125 IF you can find them. I have all the original boxes in the attic. You've seen the recent die cast Mopars I bought from the widow. I think I have 25 1:18th 1969 Chargers. I bet I have every color produced. My most recent one from her is a 1:18th Plum Crazy Demon.

I've got a bunch of 64-68 Super Stock hemi ones I got from a widow I need to sell. Mostly special limited runs from Supercar Specialty.

 

[Ray70Chrg]

As a kid, I'd crash mine as soon as it took off.

Me Too, actually got it fly twice.

 

[copper67sat]

Me Too, actually got it fly twice.

I had the P-40. Got it for my birthday when I was about 10. We lived on a cul-de-sac and I could fly it in the street. I had only flown it a couple of times when my older sister wanted to give it a try. She gave it full elevator to takeoff from the street and apparently never let up. It went straight up over her head and then straight down into the street nose first smashing into a million pieces. I remember being really upset, but I guess it was unintentional payback for all the times I broke the legs off her Barbie dolls.

Dad dug out a shoebox of his old .049 engines, got one running and we built a balsa wood kit plane for it that I flew the **** out of. It didn’t have landing gear so I flew it in the field behind our house. A friend later crashed it beyond repair so we got a .15 engine and built a Ringmaster Jr. that I flew for several years before crashing it. I still have the engine and a bunch of parts.