Monday, 27 May 2024

RAISE THE ROOF

I picked up this roofless plastic car in Germany.

The original should look like this [seen on Ebay]

So in the name of completeness I finagled a new roof out of some old plastic for my own.


A lick of black and away we go!


An unusual toy from the glorious year of 1976 by toy icons IDEAL.


This Mobile Mo is just one of a whole fleet of Micro Mighty Mo's. 
Did you ever have one?

                                                                         Image; Ebay

7 comments:

  1. Paul Adams from New Zealand5/27/2024 7:22 pm

    Never even heard of them before. That is a very nice job on the roof.

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    1. Thanks Paul. Yep, the line is new to me as well. The slow power engine harks back to Mighty Mo, which some MC readers may have had in the Sixties. I think there was a large tank toy.

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    2. There was a Jeep that I let GIJoe,Big Jim,and Action Jackson take for a joy ride or two in. Great toy,virtually indestructible

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  2. Another great save Woodsy, but it's the first I've heard of them. Your efforts have reminded me of something: there's been a toy train challenge floating around YouTube the last couple of months called #savethejunkchallenge in which folks are encouraged to show their 'trash-to-treasure' saves. You could have a whole series of videos on the topic!

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    1. Ha ha! Sounds good Ed! I once went through a phase of making videos about mostly Project SWORD toys about ten years ago. My monotone voice is enough to put anyone to sleep!

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  3. I've been itching to see what you'd do to fix this ever since you first posted it!
    Great work!

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    1. Thanks Looey. I used the hot water method to bend the front end of the plastic roof. Alas, not hot enough, it cracked during bending!

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