Buggy Billy

The unseasonable warm spell has made me a bit sluggish of late, as summer finally realises its here. The next few weeks are the summer holidays I used to enjoy as a boy, now I can sit back and watch my own two kids kick back and relax. Its hard having to trek off to work everyday when theyre playing, I wish I could too! Still, distractions from the daily grind are available and a couple of last second ebay purchases greeted my arrival home yesterday. The Tonka Tote Beach Buzzer (above) winged its way across from the states and the seller kindly included a cd of all the available Tonka catalogues, scanned and ordered, in the package. Free. Now that is good service. The Totes are small steel chassis and plastic body cars, a little larger than a Matchbox motor. Heavy rubber tyres and nylon bearings on the axles mean they roll well and far.

The Indy race car Screamin Demon is a slick futuristic looking racer, just the way I like em. Uncomplicated, with clean lines. Totes were designed to bring a little speed and pocket sized play to the world of Tonka and each car came with a belt clip to carry the car around on.