| kart with yellow driver - Merit Toy - UK - 1970 ? |
| There is a little gap in the head - maybe for a helmet ? |
Showing posts with label Speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speed. Show all posts
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Before Spa-Francorchamps !
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Speed on ice
| Go ! |
| Ready ? |
| Bobsleigh, Lehmann, 1970's Western Germany |
| You can even choose your team to personalize the toy ! |
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Ford Fairlane in space...
| Space Patrol, Nomura, Japan, 1962 |
| detail (astronaut) |
| detail (gun litho) |
| This version is lightblue and the canister is at the back ! |
| (other versions have canisters as backpack for spaceman) |
| sponsored by... Ford ! |
| 1959 Ford Fairlane (non-space ready !) |
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Happy holidays to all ! (oh yes, take the bus...)
| Continental Trailways Silver Eagle, Charmy Toy, Japan, 1950's |
Friday, March 15, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Only 100 km/h and electric ? No, I'm not happy either !
| La Jamais Contente, RIO, Italy, 1980's |
| Of course, the real one was driven by a Belgian ! |
One of the first land speed records (over 100km/h was acheived with this electric torpedo-shaped car in 1899 by Belgian Camille Jenatzy. Read more about it here.
Monday, March 4, 2024
The blue racer from Belgium
| Nº7 car, Belgium, 1950's |
| Anybody knows who made this ? |
| "MADE IN BELGIUM" on bottom |
| ... no other markings |
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Cargo to go ? The Canadair CL-44 "Swing-Tail" Freighter - 1961
| Flying Tiger Line CL-44, TN, Japan, 1960's |
Put batteries in, and this baby taxies on the floor until the whole back of the plane swivels up to reveal a yellow container. Pretty cool !
See more of it here :
Monday, June 12, 2023
Blue streamlined Limo
| Airline Limousine, Thomas toy, USA, 1950's |
At a certain point in the 30ies, it became fashionable for airports and hotels to use modified "stretched" vehicles to pick up artists and celebrities. The Limo was born... read more about it here.
| 1941 Packard airline limo |
| Drive in style ? |
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Friday, December 23, 2022
VTOL Convair XFY-1 Vertical Riser
Landing aircraft without the need of big landing strips has always been in the mind of the military. This VTOL (=Vertical Take-Off and Landing) plane with its double propellors is an early attempt of the US Navy in this field. It really was one of the stranger designs in aeronautics.
| Convair XFY-1, Mercury toys, Italy, 1950's |
Read more about it here.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Computacar, the amazing car with the memory you control ! or Amaze-A-Matics, The Car with a Brain ?
Computers were all the rage in 1970. Well, a year earlier it helped us land a man on the moon.
So no wonder that the toy business hooked in on that wave. Anything futuristic had to be run by computers, with computers... right ? This red sleek car had a programable chassis based on pre-cut cards and was sold with a bunch of cones to organize wild slalom competitions !
| Computacar, Mettoy, Hong Kong, 1970 |
| Chevrolet Astrovette ! |
To be relevant with the real world, most of the astronauts were seen driving Corvettes too - read more of it here...
Thursday, June 9, 2022
French non-E-bikes of the past ?
| Motor bicycle, maker ?, 1970's |
| ... is this green thing where you put gasoline ? |
| At least he wears a helmet ! |
The real thing was quite popular in France ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
The Kaiser's limo...
| Flying Bug, Matchbox, England, 1972 |
I had this one as a child. Bismark with moustache and all driving Ferdinand Porsche's creation.
And of course they had to add jet engines... The stock VW did the 0-100 km mark in a whopping 27.5 seconds... wouldn't you ?
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