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1960s Tonka Fire Truck Restoration

Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 16:37 BFH Uncategorized 30

These are very relaxing to watch.

ht/ jd hasty

30 Comments on 1960s Tonka Fire Truck Restoration

  4. Those were great made replicas considered “toys” then. When I was 3 in 1973 someone gave me a Tonka pick up truck. At that age I did not yet have have any appreciation for pick ups and spent years trying to destroy it. Wish I still had it!

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  8. Great work. He’s fortunate to have new doodads available.
    I stumbled across my old Jensen steam engine awhile back, had forgotten it completely. I blew the cobwebs out, watered it up, built a fire and was six years old again.

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  13. I had a Tonka ladder firetruck back in the day. Wish I still had it. Sigh. Now I’m satisfied rebuilding the Amateur Radio gear I wish I had as a boy but can have now. (My mother wouldn’t let me be a ham because it “destroyed families” – shit, Mom, I was 10!)

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  15. Answerman Cooper, I think it’s still in style for big boys’ toys.

    I had a 71 Fiat 124 spyder back in 76 that my dad and I restored from junk. Got it all shiny and new with an Earl Scheib paint job, and I loved that car until I totaled it on New Years Eve 76 (not my fault!) Dad got insurance payout of $700, and they let him keep the wreck.

    He bought another junker 124 with the insurance money, and we fixed it up. This time, no paint job, just left it faded and rusty. Then, we fixed up blue and he kept it primer black where the bondo parts were, and I painted “Mussolini’s Revenge” on the front fender for him. Good times.

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  16. Those things must have been pretty labor intensive to make originally. And can you imagine a toy today with those sharp metal edges?

    I had a few Tonga’s and Buddy L’s.

    I have seen some videos of people restoring old Matchbox cars. I have some I would like to try.

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  17. My great aunt would give me a Tonka toy every christmas until I aged out to flannel shirts and socks. Passed most of them down to younger cousins. Certain none survived.

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  20. Going to leave this on hubby’s computer screen… See if maybe he’ll go for smaller scale projects, because something this size might actually get finished. Then again, maybe he WILL get back to that Corvair Rampside one of these days…

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  21. …that’s actually pretty accurate. I served on a 1963 Pirsch pumper that was a no-jumpseat-having tailrider like this, with the main difference being that the mounting of the hose reel on top was turned 90 degrees, because it would have been pretty impractical to pull formed hose line over the cab or hose bed of the truck, but other than that, very accurate down to the mechanical siren on the fender…

    …they used to care, back in the day. Now, it’s all generic plastic, stickers, and hokey sound samples…

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  22. My twin brother and I had a Tonka truck Car Carrier. We’d take turns – one if us would lay prone on top of it and the other would push from behind, with the driver doing his best to avoid the piles of dogshit piled up in the garage from our mean old Dachshund named Ralph.

    Dammit, I miss that toy (sniff)

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  23. …that’s not how hose works, though. The hose on the side is “Hard Suction” for use in drawing water from pools or ponds, you wouldn’t take a hydrant with it…

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  27. My brother and I had a large collection of Tonka trucks and construction equipment that we got for Christmas during the early 60’s. I still wish I had them all. Tough toys that lasted years even from our use of them.

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