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What was your favorite toy car?

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Started on Matchbox picked from a display at the local hobby shop that was walking distance from where we lived when I was about 3. Most still had hard plastic wheels. I remember seeing the first gen Superfast with the skinny tires and the the 2nd gen with the fat tires. I had a few Hot Wheels including the Snake and Mongoose rails and funny cars, and the 55 Nomad (one of my all-time favorites), but in general I preferred the realism and more true scale of Matchbox. Friends had some Johnny Lightning, but we never went to a store that sold them.

I also had a 58 Fury pedal car in purple. Technically I guess my first car I could drive was a Purple Mopar.

I also really enjoyed my Pit Change Charger. I was already a Richard Petty fan, and that car was a connection with that.
 
I always liked Hotwheels redlines. I was lucky that I saved a bunch of them.

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These were cool back in my day. I don't remember if I actually ever had them, but they were on tv commercials a lot.

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I did have this one and still have it and the original box.

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Richard Cranium said:
As a kid, I'd crash mine as soon as it took off.
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Was it a silver P-51? Those didn’t have enough wing area. They flew like a rock. My dad was a competitive control line flyer and that P51 would barely do level flight and he would drag it along.

The PT-19’s flew much better.

And the P-51’s silver exterior that immediately got ate away from the model airplane fuel. Hey, it looked good in the box!

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Had an Aurora slot car with a freak motor, terror of the neighborhood. Mako shark corvette.

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autoxcuda said:
Was it a silver P-51? Those didn’t have enough wing area. They flew like a rock. My dad was a competitive control link flyer and that P51 would barely do it level flight and he would drag it along.

The PT-19’s flew much better.

And the P-51’s silver exterior got immediately got ate away from the model airplane fuel

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Nope, mine was a PT19. At the time, I was 11 or 12 and no one ever helped me with it, so I’d just start it and tune it with the needle valve.
 
1754799770161.png (PNG Image, 275 × 183 pixels) I had a Cox powered rail Dragster also. I bought it used from a friend who's brother had a Pinto Funny car I raced against with the rail. One race the motor didn't quite shut completely off at the first knot, then it hit the knot (too BIG) on the Y at the end to where the dragster bounced backwards kicking the motor over backwards and come back to me. So I left the knots like that.

Well the Rail eventually broke in half just behind the motor doing that. I hacked it back together a few times then gave up on it. Think I sold it at one of Mom's yard sales. Wish now I'd keep it.

I ran into that friend yrs later and bought the Pinto and its been on the shelf ever since.

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