vintage toys

San Franfreako in 1968?! You needed that thing to get away---fast.

Oh and I didn't realize you meant a Nazi motorcycle without the side car.

 

I agree, don't change it! What I meant is, how unusual to see a pre WWII toy sold in America with the Swastika still intact. I bet, a lot of them had the sticker scraped off, or painted over with a white star. The child dieing explains it all sadly.

 

That pistol is AWESOME! Great find. If you want to thin the collection, you can always send some here.

 

Sorry JP...
I must've zapped your reply with my Buck Rogers Space Gun...

 

Oh sure. Be that way....

 

Here's a question for everybody: This was brought up on a toy collecting forum I'm a member of, and they actually were wondering this themselves: How old does a toy have to be to be considered "vintage"? I know on this board, we're talking Golden Age old, but in general? I've seen toys as little as 20 years old marked as "vintage" on auction and sales sites, which I kinda find odd, because that makes me feel vintage. [huh]

 

If you're a purist the rule of thumb for vintage is anything more than twenty-five years old. And when combined with the definition of antique (more than a hundred years old), it can cover anything from 1916 to 1989. BTW, what toy collecting forum is it?

 

1929 Leyland Titan Bus by Matchbox
(Models of Yesteryear series)

 

JPtoys.com Huge Jurassic Park fan over here.

 

Antique Shop Finds
1:90 scale Schuco Piccolo series VW vans.

 

Photographed at the Supertoycon 2015
Circus Circus Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
February 28, 2015

 

Aha! Now I know why you were in Vegas.
Did you drive the Batmobile home?

 

Superfast Volkswagen 1600TL by Lesney Matchbox
circa 1969-70

 

Anyone old enough to have had a Captain Midnight decoder ring? J

 

Superfast VW? Now there is an oxymoron. lol lol

 

How about 7 seconds at 175mph? And, they have gone faster since this video! [video=youtube;jCdWoxa3uuY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCdWoxa3uuY[/video]

 

Riiiiggghhhttt. I meant reasonably close to stock. That is a VW body on a race car. lol lol

 

It was owned by a little old lady that used it for driving to Bingo!

 

https://youtu.be/xWfJu-Sd8Zo

 

Mercedes Bus by Schuco
circa 1960