Reminders of your childhood

[Leigh Howlett]

Got one of these and still in use, might be a slightly later model though.

 

[Leigh Howlett]

Lies

The Sony rip off version, never a good as the original!

 

[Zadar]

I only had the green arm. Some rich kids though could assemble the whole lot.

Nice, I was the same owning only the concrete truck leg part of the “devastator”
Transformer.

 

[axl rose]

 

[axl rose]

Our 80s Gran Turismo

 

[Generalzod]

Matchbox cars remember the smell when you opened up the box.

 

[Generalzod]

Matchbox cars remember the smell when you opened up the box. Years later they used to paint the cars with a lead base paint...

 

[axl rose]

Matchbox cars remember the smell when you opened up the box.

Anyone else have this beast

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Kids at home, here is a great car. The forerunner of the Camry:


It get a bad wrap now, but if you took care of it, it was bulletproof.

Not sure if Matchbox made one.

My little buddy and I once found $50 once. The first thing we bought was matchbox cars. He’d always go a ford Futura and I’d stick to station wagon with the plastic dogs in the back.

I think they were big kelpies, but not corgi’s!

 

[Generalzod]

Kids at home, here is a great car. The forerunner of the Camry:

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It get a bad wrap now, but if you took care of it, it was bulletproof.

Not sure if Matchbox made one.

My little buddy and I once found $50 once. The first thing we bought was matchbox cars. He’d always go a ford Futura and I’d stick to station wagon with the plastic dogs in the back.

I think they were big kelpies, but not corgi’s!

Looks like the Torona of the time.....

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Looks like the Torona of the time.....

yes.

It was identical I think but with a despised 4 cylinder “ powerhouse”, badging and cosmetic differences.

But that car never gave too much trouble.

It was the Camry of the day before we had Camrys. And the Gemini I guess.

 

[soc123_au]

Looks like the Torona of the time.....

It is a Torana, they just called the 4 banger a Sunbird. The UC was a bit of a let down after the LX. No more V8 option. They did do a turbo 6 variant, the SL/T but only 30 odd were made.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Matchbox cars remember the smell when you opened up the box.

I remember getting the purple one (top row, middle) as a kid. Mum visiting the hairdressers and promised me if I behaved sitting on the waiting chairs I’d get a matchbox car afterwards. Somehow I did it.

 

[Leigh Howlett]

It is a Torana, they just called the 4 banger a Sunbird. The UC was a bit of a let down after the LX. No more V8 option. They did do a turbo 6 variant, the SL/T but only 30 odd were made.

Instead of designing a new 4 cylinder engine Holden took the cheap option of knocking 2 cylinders off the 6 cylinder motor, it even went on to be installed in the early Commodores, you would be hard pressed to find an original Sunbird these days as they would have had a V/8 installed with Torana badging.

 

[soc123_au]

Instead of designing a new 4 cylinder engine Holden took the cheap option of knocking 2 cylinders off the 6 cylinder motor, it even went on to be installed in the early Commodores, you would be hard pressed to find an original Sunbird these days as they would have had a V/8 installed with Torana badging.

The starfire 4 cylinder was an opel engine. I remember ratting the conrods out of a few them to use in red motors as they were pretty beefy & changed the stroke. The hot combo was 186s or 179hp block, 202 crank & starfire rods.

 

[horrie hastings]

When i was growing up in Paddington these lamps were all around where there were holes in the footpath and road works, most of them had PMG stamped on them. Have one in a very good condition and a very battered one which i will try and fix up, out walking today up to Newtown and spied this one, so i bought it so the other one in good condition has a brother.

 

[Generalzod]

I remember getting the purple one (top row, middle) as a kid. Mum visiting the hairdressers and promised me if I behaved sitting on the waiting chairs I’d get a matchbox car afterwards. Somehow I did it.

Oh yes I grew up in Mascot in the 70s my mother god rest her soul wanted me to go and get clothes from Best and less and I hated going into that store cause there was no toys in the store, the only way she got me to go was to buy me a match box car at the toy store near by.

 

[horrie hastings]

Oh yes I grew up in Mascot in the 70s my mother god rest her soul wanted me to go and get clothes from Best and less and I hated going into that store cause there was no toys in the store, the only way she got me to go was to buy me a match box car at the toy store near by.

Back in the days when there were specialist toy stores in the suburbs, when we moved from Paddington to Kingsford in 1971 , there was Whitings sports and toy store on Anzac Pde and the Kiwi toy shop on Gardners Rd , used to buy fireworks from the Kiwi toy store .

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Fireworks.

Golden days of building and setting off bungers. We were mad.

But I never got into the copper pipe models or blowing up letterboxes.

By way of toy, a box of wooden offcuts went a long way with a bit of imagination.

The lad today (11) not content without the latest tech but he enjoys a drawing or two.

No I wasn’t sent down the mines as a kid. I use that as a threat to the kids sometimes and they roll their eyes. I guess the road lamp would come in handy. Nice piece, wouldn’t mind one.

 

[horrie hastings]

Fireworks.

Golden days of building and setting off bungers. We were mad.

But I never got into the copper pipe models or blowing up letterboxes.

By way of toy, a box of wooden offcuts went a long way with a bit of imagination.

The lad today (11) not content without the latest tech but he enjoys a drawing or two.

No I wasn’t sent down the mines as a kid. I use that as a threat to the kids sometimes and they roll their eyes. I guess the road lamp would come in handy. Nice piece, wouldn’t mind one.

Those road lamps used to be around a lot in the 60s and early 70s, two of the ones I have have the oil/ kerosene burner still inside , not sure whether I would try to use them though, have plans to put them out on balcony eventually and will probably put tea lights in them, always been fascinated by them.
Yes miss the old cracker night, the bungers and throw downs, satellites, parachutes, Roman candles and sky rockets.