THE BANDAI MUSICAL VEGETABLE TRUCK

Woodsy,

Here’s another great sighting from Instagram, a Bandai “musical vegetable truck” from the 1960s. Amazing!

Rob C

USA

THE MILKY BAR KID IN SPACE 1981

 

I loved Milky Bars as a kid.

I don't recall this 1981 ad though. Maybe its because I was older then. You remember it?

Do you like Milky Bars or white chocolate readers?

THIS IS RICHARD PETTY!

Hi, The name Richard Petty came up recently.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/04/who-was-richard-petty.html#comment-form

Richard Lee Petty is an American racing car driver, in NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). He was born in 1937, and is still alive.

Petty is one of the top NASCAR drivers ever, and drove cars that carried the number 43. These started out in plain blue, then had red or orange trim added, and ended up as blue with red sides.

His father, Lee Petty, was also a racing driver, and winner of the first Daytona 500 race in 1959. His son Kyle, and grandson Adam, were also racing car drivers. This led to Monogram releasing a Racing Pettys Combo, with cars 42 and 43.

There have been many kits and die-casts of his vehicles. Just typing in the name Richard Petty in to Scalemates turned up kits by AMT, AMT/Ertl, Jo-han, Lindberg, Monogram, MPC, Polar Lights, Revell, and Salvinos JR Models. The earliest seems to be a Jo-han kit from 1967. All in 1/24th or 1/25th scale, apart from a 1/16th scale Dodge Charger.

https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION%5B%5D=All&q=richard+petty*

Here are a few photos of various Richard Petty kits - I have not even looked at the die-casts, which are even more numerous.

Four photographs, all from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Associated Hobby Manufacturers of Philadelphia PA.

Woodsy,

I was on a nostalgia kick lately (what’s new?) so on eBay I got a cheap copy of one of my favorite catalogs from the 1960s - the 1967-67 catalog from Associated Hobby Manufacturers of Philadelphia PA. 

While AHM was primarily an importer of model railroad trains and accessories, they carried some interesting other lines, and there are a couple I thought Moonbase readers might enjoy.

First up is their line of “MiniMen,” which turn out to be from our old pal, Airfix.

Next, AHM was known for importing a large number of (roughly) HO Scale military vehicles by Roco, under the brand “MiniTanks”. These were beautiful and (usually) highly-detailed models, and I had dozens of them back in the day.

Finally, AHM imported some great die-cast cars from Roadmaster Impy, one of the coolest (imho) makers of “budget” die-cast toys with working features.

Those were the days!

Rob C

USA

IT'S GOOD FRIDAY!

WE'LL SOON BE ROLLIN'!

KITS, CARS, TEA AND TOAST

We had some very sad close family news yesterday, a bereavement, but so as not to dwell on it until I can do something practical I need to keep busy, so here's a new post.

As I said, the Missus and me went to Hornsea on the Yorkshire coast. A lovely quaint seaside town full of charm and character. We also visited a very wet Bridlington up the shore too, a much bigger and commercialised seaside town and its sister village of Old Town Bridlington, again a picturesque Yorkshire spot.

Here are a few things we saw in charity shops and antique centres. Taking reader Yorkie's advice we visited Cropper's Model Shop in Bridlington. Talk about timing, its more or less closing for good after this Easter weekend! 50 years of trading done.

This is what was left on Cropper's shelves.

I offered Mr. Cropper a tenner for some old loose Triang Space carriages but no deal. Ah well.

In other shops we saw:

These Matchbox rack cars caught my eye in a proper shop. I hadn't realised they were still going!

Anything you fancy or had as a kid?

RICHARD DIXON'S GERRY ANDERSON MODELS: SOME MORE

Thought I would send you some more....

1. Intergalactic Rescue - Puppet Set Jif Fruits Commercial....this went out at the Cinema with the first "Star Wars" Film,

2. also on TV.....The DELTA Beacon Space station from Into Infinity TV special,

3. STARCRUISER - original "3" miniature by Martin Bower...this turned out into an Airfix model kit...it was going to be a TV series but it never made it to production,

Hope you enjoy them,

Richard Dixon

Lancashire

HERE'S JOHNNY!

 I had Best of the West Marx figures as a kid but I don't think I had a Johnny Apollo.

The design got around though.

Here's Marx's Kennedy Space Centre Astronaut. Is it that much different to Johnny or the same?

Mexico had its own Plastimarx brand of Johnny's too.

Here's Jane Apollo.

The box art has a much more inflated suit to the toy version. I do like the artwork.

Did you have a Johnny or Jane Apollo?