Some lucky wins on Ebay this holiday season brought me a really interesting vehicle, a Hoover made space racer pictured below. It's a huge friction driven plastic jet car easilly a foot long. Hoover were a Thai based toy company who often made cheaper end toys but I personally think this is a corker.
It reminds me a lot of the JR21 X50 Space Racer, which as Lady Luck would have it came in the same lot, albeit incomplete.
The Hoover racer has a striking riveted outline across it's body as seen below. I've seen this before on the SWORD Probe Force 3 pictured below too. Is this riveting common on space toys?
Just so you recognise the Hoover logo, here it is on the car's undercarraige, together with the model number 302 (poor picture - to be replaced!)
Has anyone perchance come across this toy boxed or know it's real name?
i had a loose model some while ago, but it wasnt in great condition. Never seen a box, but it does bear more than a slight resemblance to a Land Speed Record car. Riveting was very common as a design feature in the late sixties/early fifties as most spaceships of the time had to be seen to be made of 'metal', adding plates and rivets accentuated the look as tinplate toys would have had highly coloured lithoed images and plastic toys didnt allow this luxury of detail.
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