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What was your favorite toy car?

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:

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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.

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I had a Starsky & Hutch CB radio car that I loved.
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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 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.
 
SteveSS said:
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?
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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.
 
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.

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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.
 
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SteveSS said:
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.
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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.

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Ray70Chrg said:
Me Too, actually got it fly twice.
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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.

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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.

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Ringmaster Jr's are good flying control line planes. A true starter plane you could do something with. I remember my dad and brother who were into control line saying that.

I think my dad viewed the plastic Cox and Testors planes as even more durable that just got you the experience of flying in circles.
 
autoxcuda said:
I’ve got an NOS #7 Daytona AFX.

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I have a few of those, but they're drivers, I have nothing NIB.

Here's a track layout I built during Covid with some help from my daughter, she helped design the UV-reactive painted track sign and some of the crappier cars. I had way too much time on my hands, I even re-wired some of the controllers with UV-reactive wiring I had leftover from my computer modding days.

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autoxcuda said:
Ringmaster Jr's are good flying control line planes. A true starter plane you could do something with. I remember my dad and brother who were into control line saying that.

I think my dad viewed the plastic Cox and Testors planes as even more durable that just got you the experience of flying in circles.
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The Ringmaster Jr with the bigger engine was definitely a step up from what I had been flying. It was a great flying plane and I was able to do some aerobatics with it using a fuel tank that allowed inverted flight.

I dug the engine and tank out 25+ yrs ago with the intent of building another plane, but there weren't many control line kits available at the time so I ended up putting everything back away. I guess RC had pretty much taken over by then and there wasn't much demand for the CL stuff.
 
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