RADIO DAYS

 

This is yet another toy similar to my beloved Desert Jeep, this being the Radio Jeep!

I like how the passenger is holding a phone. Make that call!

Here's my original Desert Patrol Jeep. Do you have one?

DESERT PATROL JEEP VARIATION: THE TOM AND JERRY COMIC CAR

My beloved tin Desert Patrol Jeep certainly got around. 

Not just my primary school classroom on Christmas Toy Day but also the design was everywhere in the Sixties.

Here's yet another variation to add to the many we've seen on MC over the years, the splendiferous Tom and Jerry!

What do you think?

THE ATTACKING JEEP

What do you think of this Japanese KY wind-up Attacking Jeep readers?

I quite like the chromed features and the blue soldiers.

A stylish and slick jeep!

Do you like it?

JEEP CHOOS

 

I've been looking at this Rico page from a Spanish toy catalogue dated 1971.

There's a couple of interesting items.

The gun jeep at the top appears to be a colourful variation of the Desert Jeep I loved as a kid and pictured below.

There's at least one other Spanish version of this too, by prolific toysters Clim.

Below the jeep on the Rico page is a colourful train set.

We've seen this before released by many different outfits, the most interesting for us being Century 21 Toys covered a few times on MC.

Did you have any of these toys on the Rico page?

STAN AND OLLIE IN A JEEP

Hi

The subject of Laurel and Hardy, and their vehicles, recently came up. Here is the only model I have, showing the pair in a WW2 US Army Jeep. It is a die-cast model, by a short-lived company called Gate. They mostly did modern sports cars, but there was also a Jeep. 

This came as a standard WW2 US Army vehicle without figures. There were also some Star Car versions, with plastic figures. Comic strip character Beetle Bailey, and two versions of Laurel and Hardy. 

In either normal suits, or dressed as US Navy sailors (but still driving an Army Jeep). The models were available in both 1/32nd and 1/18th scales.

My example is in 1/32nd scale, and has Oliver Hardy at the wheel, with Stan Laurel in the passenger seat. There are a couple of plastic suitcases in the back.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

GREEK JEEP

 This plastic Elvip Lyra military jeep caught my eye online.

It reminds me of the plastic Century 21 Toys Hurdler ...

But it also has a flavour of one of my big 3 tinplate toys I had as a kid in the Sixties, the wonderful Desert Patrol Jeep, a toy I managed to replace about 20 years ago.

Have you any Jeeps or did you have readers?

SPANISH PATROL: CLIM DESERT JEEP

I loved my Desert Patrol tin toy jeep when I was a nipper in the Sixties.

Made in Japan, it was one of my top 4 tin toys and I even took it to primary school!

Here's the very same pictured by Vectis.

It's crazy motion and rat-at-tat sound effect are so utterly memorable!

Did you have one?

Here's some short footage I found on You Tube to remind you!

The Desert Patrol Jeep was released in other countries.

Here's the Spanish version by Clim called Jeep Ametrallador I saw on an auction.

and here's it advertised with other Clim toys in a Spanish toy catalogue I saw online.

Jeep! Jeep!

Here's a gold Rough Rider 4 x 4 Jeep Golden Eagle by LJN - top pic. The motor doesn't work but it still lights up. 

I also found this yellow R/C Jeep with inflatable tires. Its steering doesn't work but it still drives forward and reverse. I have just realised it could serve as a "cuckoo" for 3 or 4 inch action figures. I wonder why I didn't think of this when I was a kid!

Enjoy,

Brian F

NJ

USA

JEEP AT THE PRICE

Further to my recent post about my old Desert Patrol Jeep by Modern Toys I had a browse round for variations and knockoffs.

This Desert Super Tiger above appears to be one such copycat albiet tooled-up for the garish Eighties. This is a Chinese knockoff from 1985.

The next two I found on the superb VECTIS auction site. Above is a Greek copy by Lira with its blue based box. Below is the Marx Tricky Action Jeep, which might be the forerunner of them all.

This last one appears to be a blue-gun variation from South America.

And if you've never seen the Desert Patrol Jeep in action then feast your eyes on this short You Tube film. It's one crazy vehicle! I remember taking it to my first school around '67 after Xmas. It was wild! Did anyone else take presents into the class, to show everybody and the teacher after Christmas?

DESERT PATROL JEEP

This was one of my fave toys as a kid in the 1960's, part of my tin Big Four: Desert Patrol Jeep, Mod Monster, Space Frontier Rocket and the Lunar Explorer. I loved them all. Mum and Dad threw them all out when I turned into a spotty teenager. I got new ones when I was no longer spotty. My current Desert Patrol Jeep was bought for £65 in the late 1990's. A battery-operated bump 'n' go flashing -turretted tinplate terror! Anyone else got one or similar?