70's toys
No Eraser Head
>overcharged them with about 4 times the current to charge them quickly. he
>said working ones ought to be worth some bucks now. But the ones in that
>box looked like they had some severe wear.
>
>Speaking of Hot Wheels, aside from the ubiquitous plastic flexible track,
>I also had the race set that used the pull-lever to propel the cars (it
>was cool, but the track was short); and I had the one that used a hand pump
>to turn wheels that propelled the car down the tack--not THAT one was a
>pain.
There was a batt operated device similar to the hand pumped one
that would jettison the cars out of the little pit stop thing it was
shaped like. I enjoyed the foam rubber wheels in it.
The neat thing about the pit stop thing was that it looked just
like the Howard Johnson Oasis' (oases?) that spanned many overpasses
across Chicago area tollways.
If I had half of my toys now that I had back then, I would be
rich, yet unloved by anyone..who really likes to sit amongst piles and
piles of junk, waiting for them to become collectors items? Well, I do, I
guess.
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CHAD FRANKLIN BENNETT
>Does anyone remember those cars, similar to Hot Wheels, that you hooked
>up to
>a toy gas pump, and then pushed on the top of the gas pump to charge up
>the
>cars? Were they a version of Hot Wheels or a separate line?
>Andre
I think they were called sizzlers. They ran on the sam track as hot wheels
and they had little rechargeable batteried built into them - they would run
for about 90 seconds and then poop out. I had the gas pump version of the
recharger which took two or foud D cell batteries. A friend had the built-in
garage with AC power for the recharger.
I also had the SST. It was an interesting thing trying to pull the plastic
starter out of the car without friction burning your hand. Hope I am right on
some of these things.
Good Luck in your quests! John M.
AVB
cfbe...@eos.ncsu.edu (CHAD FRANKLIN BENNETT) writes:
> Hope I am right on
> some of these things.
Right on both counts, especially the part about trying not to get burns
from
the SST strip!
AVB