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MartyMabe
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Posted: April-17-2012 at 6:30pm |
Hey Guys,
What was your Favorite Toy growing up? Just look at what the Kids today get to play with |
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75 Tique
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Keeping in the theme of this site, I had several electric toy boats. Some inboards very much like this one.
I also has some outboards that I liked because they made very good replicas of old johnsons and evinrudes. Also had and enjoyed Lionel trains and HO slot cars. And then, not so much a toy, but, I rode the crap out of a number of bicycles. Still have one today, that I bought in the early 80s (in my late 20s) but unfortunately definitely not of the calibre in the recent bike thread. |
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“So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
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peter1234
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army men and bb guns
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former skylark owner now a formula but I cant let this place go
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davidg
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Hot Wheels! Damn near fainted when I finally found the highly prized Python back in '68 ot '69.
Always wanted a Schwinn Cherry Krate or Orange Krate bike....but, never got one. Those bikes are bringing big $$$ these days. |
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sweet77
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It had training wheels before this pic. started at 2 years and 6 months old. |
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jbear
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Lionel trains...had a big set-up in my parents basement. Son had it up till a few years ago. Lost in his divorce I think. Slot cars..not HO..I believe..028 gauge? Used to go to the slot car tracks at storefronts. A Red Western Auto 3 speed (!) 'English Racer' bike. My very own Catchers mitt when no-one owned one..you just used what the league provided 'cause nobody wanted to be a catcher!
john |
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"Loud pipes save lives"
AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
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sweet77
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I still have a big wooden box full of my dads slot cars and the triggers that go with them even got some brand new motors for them |
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Gary S
Grand Poobah Joined: November-30-2006 Location: Illinois Status: Offline Points: 14096 |
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I'm with Halston,still got it and will never let it go!
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75 Tique
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When my brother and I were probably like 7 and 11 my dad built a big table and made us a nice Lionel layout. After some years he tore it down and sold the stuff and started a huge HO layout. After a year or so, the guy he was working on it with died and he lost interest. He tore that apart and we used the table for an HO car race track mixed in with a small HO train layout that I built, and at the other end, the bigger 1/32 race cars. We too took our 1/24 scale race cars to the "motoramas", the big store front tracks to race. Eventually, that table was torn down too. Many years later, after he retired, my dad started another very ambitious HO train set. After several years he got too old to work on it. He was going to sell/donate it all, but I took it apart and saved all the components. My son and I built a small layout when he was young. I eventually took it down, but again, saved all the pieces. I still have my dad's Lionel tin plate train from the 1930s with an engine almost identical to this one, about 10 cars and a station. |
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“So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
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Chicomew
Newbie Joined: October-19-2011 Location: Pleasanton, CA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
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Gary, is that a Honda trail 70? I grew up with one of those, and my Dad picked up another one in bad shape from a neighbor a few years ago and put it back together. So much fun!
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Kristof
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Lego all the way. Played hours and hours with that stuff...
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- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
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Waterdog
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Honda trail 50 3 speed auto. I liked all the "boy" stuff baseball, football, fishing. "It's nice outside - get out there" Mom said that a lot. Building .049 airplanes. Still working with airplanes today. |
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Swatkinz
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I'm with Halston and Gary S. I have a 1978 Honda minitrail Z50 that I got brand new for Christmas. It cannot be bought for any amount of money. Needs some carb work, but it will run for short bursts.
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Steve
2011 Sport/Air 200 Excalibur 343 2017 Boatmate Tandem Axle Trailer Former CC owner (77, 80, 95, 88, all SNs) Former Malibu owner (07, 09) |
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Gary S
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Steve if you ever need parts these guys have been around a long time and are good to deal with.
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tullfooter
Grand Poobah Joined: March-02-2007 Location: White Lake, MI Status: Offline Points: 2225 |
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Honda Z50. The thing would not die. I got an SL100 and my best friend would ride my Z50 as hard as he could. Both of those bikes burned in our house fire in '77. Then I got a Yamaha YZ125.
JBear, I also had the full size slot cars. It was better than HO's because you had to drive them. No "Magnatraction" Actually, the best "toy" we had growing up was the swamp across the street. Frogs, snakes, mud and forts. |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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jbear
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tull...LOL...huge ravine at the end of my parents street in Strongsville. Now a housing development but back in the 60's it was an adventure every day. Creek..cliffs on one side..trails..forts..tree houses. The ravine followed the creek for miles. Kids today got no idea!
going to the slot tracks with your big wood box of cars and parts on saturday morning. Racing kids you didn't know. Dang! john |
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"Loud pipes save lives"
AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
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eric lavine
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im with you John, a pack of matches and come home when the street lights turn on
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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Swatkinz
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what are the slot cars you guys are talking about? HO cars?
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Steve
2011 Sport/Air 200 Excalibur 343 2017 Boatmate Tandem Axle Trailer Former CC owner (77, 80, 95, 88, all SNs) Former Malibu owner (07, 09) |
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Swatkinz
Platinum Member Joined: December-03-2003 Location: Lexington, SC Status: Offline Points: 1307 |
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Thanks, Gary. My problem for the last several years is that the bike doesn't get ridden enough. I'll tinker with it for a couple of weekends and get it running and then I'll get too busy or forget about running it on a regular basis. carb gums up and I start all over again. I can't get the carb right on it and am thinking about buying a new carb ready to bolt on and ride. My girls are now 7 and 5 so they are the perfect age. |
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Steve
2011 Sport/Air 200 Excalibur 343 2017 Boatmate Tandem Axle Trailer Former CC owner (77, 80, 95, 88, all SNs) Former Malibu owner (07, 09) |
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OverMyHead
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Matchbox and Hotwheels cars.
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For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
1987 Ski Nautique |
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MartyMabe
Grand Poobah Joined: February-21-2006 Location: High Point,NC Status: Offline Points: 3991 |
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Steve-- I know you weren't that 'Sheltered'!! Here ya go I had a 3 speed automatic Honda CT70. We took that thing camping with us. These 3 campgrounds had trails back in the woods. My fav bike was my Schwinn 3-speed Chopper. Slot cars- Yes! We still have a local track--although the guy opens it at odd times . RC airplanes-- my dad still has his Piper Cub with a 6-foot wing span. He was a Fireman in his day and how he got that plane was the owner flew it into the top of a Pine Tree about 100 feet in the air. He laid the controls down and said- whoever gets it down it's theirs! So my dad leaves me with some stranger there that Saturday morning, gets in the car-62 Ford Falcon convertible 3-speed on the column, to get to that tree faster, and he's back about an hour later. Of course now-about 10 years ago I got a RC Richard Petty Car- and then the other 'Big Boy' toys- the 66 and the 93 today. |
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Jllogan
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LEGOs, definitely |
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TX Foilhead
Grand Poobah Joined: February-01-2009 Location: Kingsland TX Status: Offline Points: 2076 |
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Lawn Darts and BMX bikes! No swamps here to play in, we had about 1000 acres of undeveloped property down the street to build tracks on and take short cuts to other friends houses. Spent most every day on my bike until I got a my DL then those same places became usefull for other stuff.
I'm with Eric, matches were a blast too especially with WD40. |
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quinner
Grand Poobah Joined: October-12-2005 Location: Unknown Status: Offline Points: 5828 |
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Any Rock that could be thrown!! Any Game Ball!!
Peddle Cars to Bikes to Mini Bike to Dirt Bikes (first Honda was an XR75) Evil Knievel Bike was pretty Kool |
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east tx skier
Senior Member Joined: August-22-2006 Location: Tyler, TX Status: Offline Points: 248 |
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We had a ranch where we spent a lot of weekends. When I wasn't grubbing around outside, there was this (thanks Grampa). I must have played with this thing long beyond the age appropriate point.
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Donald80SN
Grand Poobah Joined: January-12-2009 Location: Denver, NC Status: Offline Points: 3896 |
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BMX Bikes, Go Cart on Dirt track.
Mostly playing with myself |
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bhectus
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This thing was my pride and joy as a kid. I paid $500 for one used and it was kept at our cabin in the Poconos. I was on that thing from the time we got there Friday evenings to the time we left on Sunday afternoons.
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'02 Ski Nautique 196 w/ 5.7 Apex bowtie - Sold
'87 Barefoot - sold '97 Super Sport Nautique - originally custom built for Walt Meloon '97 Ski Nautique '83 SN 2001 |
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Keeganino
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BMX, legos, and skateboards!
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"working on these old boats may not be cost effective but as it shows its what it brings into your life that matters" -Roger
1973 Skier |
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tullfooter
Grand Poobah Joined: March-02-2007 Location: White Lake, MI Status: Offline Points: 2225 |
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It's so funny that kids can't understand how much we were outside when we were young. My mom had to beg us to come in for dinner. She made us sit down for dinner, knowing that we would rather eat standing up so we could get back outside.
Probably my favorite toy without an engine was my rowboat. At 12 years old, it gave me a sense of freedom, much like a car at 16. My best friend Slurp (Jon Martin) and I would spend afternoons rowing our boats around the lake, or flipping them to use as rafts for swimming. If the wind picked up, we would bust out the sailboats. |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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