Christmas toys you'll never see again

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I had this one:Vintage Cox .049 Gas Powered Vega Funny Car (kammback wagon) « Somewhere along the line, I took the engine and "transaxle" out and mounted it to my home made slingshot dragster. I made it out of hobby store brass tubing soldered together. It actually worked!
A friend carved a balsa wood land speed type car (about a foot long) and stuck an Estes rocket in the back of it. He made a control line (with the "Y" at the end to stop it) out of fishing line. We lit it off in a church parking lot (his dad was the minister), and it promptly melted the line and went BONKERS! It ended up bouncing crazily under the church bus! Some fun times! lol
 
I love these hooligan stories. One of these days I should share some of mine. BTW, I had the Cox dragster in red, white and blue. They were fun.
 
Since I refuse to grow up (or so said the exwife lol) this is my kind of thread..JW

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Was about ten years old when I got this for Christmas, no surprise I ended up getting a Helicopter pilots license then.
 
My buddy and I decided we would build a cannon. We used a 4' stick of 1/2" conduit (VERRRRY STURDY!!!) and drove a broom stick into one end. We drilled a fuse hole in the side of the conduit just above where the stick stopped and inserted a fuse from a blackcat firecracker. We cut open who knows how many shotgun shells to pour out the powder and dropped it down the open end, stuffed it with a wad of newspaper, dropped in nuts, cut-up nails, any kind of metal trash we could find and topped it off with a little more newspaper wadding. We propped the thing up against the brick wall in the back yard, and, to see if the thing really worked, we placed a metal trash can lid in front of the business end. We lit the fuse, ducked down, and BOOOOM...blew about a 1" hole in the trash can lid. My mom came running outside to see what the hell we had done now. Lucky we didn't explode the conduit and load our asses with shrapnel. Oh my gosh, we were stupid. But, 60 years later I can tell my grandkids what NOT to do for fun.
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Remember PDQ Chocolate Flavor Beads? When I was a kid, I refused to drink plain white milk, had to mix in Nestle's Quick or PDQ. I believe on the label, PDQ stood for "Pretty Darn Quick". Just read it was actually marketed by Ovaltine, another product I would add to my milk from time to time.

I don't remember the eggnog flavor.

Gone But Not Forgotten Groceries: From the Beverage Aisle: PDQ
 
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Lotta memories in this thread and had most of the stuff that has been mentioned, In our current society that kids are so dumb they're eating Tide Pods it does as mentioned by others make ya wonder how we survived....I too had the Chemistry set and it was a big mo-fo, My brother worked for Revell in Cali after he got back from Nam and he used to send me Trains, Slot Cars and Models all the time and model glue was sold to anybody back then. Mom went to be with the Angels recently and doing some clean up at her home I came across these three things from my youth. Still have a foot locker full of G.I.Joes and a huge Matchbox storage case full of stuff somewhere around here too.

My collecting interests extend well beyond Mopar Muscle so thought I'd throw a quick few in from the other man cave.






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Harry Canary was a fun flying airplane game got stolen in 1974 when our stuff was in storage in Maine where we moved from Frankfurt Germany

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Hemioutlaw said:
Lotta memories in this thread and had most of the stuff that has been mentioned, In our current society that kids are so dumb they're eating Tide Pods it does as mentioned by others make ya wonder how we survived....I too had the Chemistry set and it was a big mo-fo, My brother worked for Revell in Cali after he got back from Nam and he used to send me Trains, Slot Cars and Models all the time and model glue was sold to anybody back then. Mom went to be with the Angels recently and doing some clean up at her home I came across these three things from my youth. Still have a foot locker full of G.I.Joes and a huge Matchbox storage case full of stuff somewhere around here too.

My collecting interests extend well beyond Mopar Muscle so thought I'd throw a quick few in from the other man cave.






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Pirates Bobblehead........... Cool
 
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Here's one of my favorites from years ago...
My dad had this set as a kid in the late 50’s - early 60’s. My grandparents kept it and I remember playing with it as a kid in the 80’s.

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Girders and beams snapped together and were then "skinned" with various style panels to build all sorts of buildings. The cool feature was they wouldn't fall apart if you bumped into them.
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