Yes Tonka were the best. Mine were not two tone thought. I recall a green jeep, a matching pick up truck, a road grader and red cement mixer with white mixing chamber that was geared to the wheels. My son has a fire truck in the atic.
I still have my stake-side truck and 2 horse trailer. Sadly I don’t know where the horses are. They may be in a box with all my other smaller horses. The truck is tan and the trailer white.
My older brother was born in ’43 and had some of the neatest stuff. An absolutely beautiful book of Peter Pan or one of the other classics with a watercolor celluloid cover; and a stage coach with six horses, all metal except for the lines connecting the horses to the coach. All lost, and nothing touching them today.
Oh how I miss playing in the sandbox with my Tonka Toys! I had a hydraulic dump truck, a road grader with steerable front wheels and adjustable blade, and a red pumper fire truck you could actually hook up to the garden hose!
Back when Tonka was still steel and made in Minnetonka, Minnesota…
Catfeet Premium Member over 9 years ago
Is it time for the 19th hole, yet?
tcar-1 over 9 years ago
Tonka toy trucks!
TexMichael over 9 years ago
Yes Tonka were the best. Mine were not two tone thought. I recall a green jeep, a matching pick up truck, a road grader and red cement mixer with white mixing chamber that was geared to the wheels. My son has a fire truck in the atic.
Elizabeth Wieland Premium Member over 9 years ago
I still have my stake-side truck and 2 horse trailer. Sadly I don’t know where the horses are. They may be in a box with all my other smaller horses. The truck is tan and the trailer white.
dogday Premium Member over 9 years ago
My older brother was born in ’43 and had some of the neatest stuff. An absolutely beautiful book of Peter Pan or one of the other classics with a watercolor celluloid cover; and a stage coach with six horses, all metal except for the lines connecting the horses to the coach. All lost, and nothing touching them today.
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
Oh how I miss playing in the sandbox with my Tonka Toys! I had a hydraulic dump truck, a road grader with steerable front wheels and adjustable blade, and a red pumper fire truck you could actually hook up to the garden hose!
Back when Tonka was still steel and made in Minnetonka, Minnesota…
hippogriff over 9 years ago
Nate of Steel: But good form can still get you in the traps.
mymontana over 9 years ago
Oh, Rover you can be sly – but what a great team!
LOVE & HUGS TO RED & ROVER