Show your Age, Toy's you Grew up with

[YY1]

But when was that toy manufactured in relation to the timeline for such a stroker kit?

That's the interesting part.

"Everyone" seems to think the 451 is a fairly recent thing.

I've heard tell of folks doing it as far back as the 80's, but I imagine real professionals figured it out much earlier.

I find it interesting that the nomenclature made it to a toy back then.

 

[Outsider]

Steam and slots Baby ! The steam is my old set from the 60s that I came across the other day when reorganizing some storage. The slots pictured are a contemporary German made big set that I bought I few years ago because I could. I liked the slots better; when I was young I had the the Thunder Jet HO size.

 

[dual fours]

You really know where you stand when the lunch box you carried to school as a kid is on display in the Henry Ford Museum.
No picture unfortunately, but a few years back my wife and I were visiting the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. That year they had a themed display for '60's every day culture. We came across a display case containing kids metal lunch boxes and thermos'. And there it was, the "Fantastic Four" metal lunch box, just like I carried to early grade school.

Wow you had a metal lunch box...I just had a brown paper bag.

 

[Photon440]

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Steam and slots Baby ! The steam is my old set from the 60s that I came across the other day when reorganizing some storage. The slots pictured are a contemporary German made big set that I bought I few years ago because I could. I liked the slots better; when I was young I had the the Thunder Jet HO size.

I've got a similar steamer from back then as well!

 

[Spare Parts]

Klackers, what could go wrong?

 

[Spare Parts]

 

[RustyBug]

View attachment 1138578Let's play punch, slap, stoop-ball, off-the-wall, stick-ball, whatever... 'cause I got my SPALDEEN !!

You forgot to mention handball at the park.

 

[RustyBug]

You forgot to mention handball at the park. All good times!!

 

[mrhemi]

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Steam and slots Baby ! The steam is my old set from the 60s that I came across the other day when reorganizing some storage. The slots pictured are a contemporary German made big set that I bought I few years ago because I could. I liked the slots better; when I was young I had the the Thunder Jet HO size.

I've still got my Wilesco steam engine around somewhere as well. Put a lot of fuel and water through that as a kid. I always had interesting school science projects because they were "steam powered". Too bad the government wouldn't let me count all that steam time towards a Stationary Engineer's license, lol.

 

[WileE]

how about this:

OOPS !! I meant this:

when I googled "TOP" to get a pic.

 

[hemi71x]

One of these talked about yet?

 

[Cranky]

Clip on roller skates with steel wheels.....they sucked.

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

how about this:

OOPS !

You WISH you "PLAYED" with THAT!!!

 

[eldubb440]

mmmmmmmmmm......... tube tops

 

[Cranky]

That's the interesting part.

"Everyone" seems to think the 451 is a fairly recent thing.

I've heard tell of folks doing it as far back as the 80's, but I imagine real professionals figured it out much earlier.

I find it interesting that the nomenclature made it to a toy back then.

Offset grinding a crankshaft goes back aways too......pretty easy to turn a 440 into a 470.

 

[snakeyes]

 

[Cranky]

Erector sets.
Had them in the late 60’s. I didn’t read every post but with so many mechanical types on the site, some of you must have had them

I had a set in the late 50's....didn't really care for it all that much. Wanted a Lego set when they first hit the stores but never got one....probably because it was kinda expensive. For the most part, I was happy playing with those rubber toy cars until dad bought me a Hubley Model A pickup to assemble. Based on where we lived at the time that was around 59. Ended up with a Model A roadster, a station wagon too and a 30 Packard Sport Phaeton, I really liked the Packard and painted it yellow just like it was in the picture on the box. Ironic because my first car was yellow.....but it wasn't too long until I was messing with edger motors and go-carts and forgot about the Legos but still built an AMT model or two during all of that.

 

[1968rt]

Tube tops were the best....easy on easy off!!!!

 

[cr8crshr]

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Nice Tin Plate there Snake!!! Me??? Still playin' with trains also. HO mainly but have Lionel O Gauge too for around the tree at Christmas. My Brother 69a100 has our Dad's Tin Plate plus some that he acquired on his own...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[GrabberOrange69]

My Tonka Manx