Thread: My old toy box's

Well Saturday was a wet drizzly day and we were looking after my 2 yr old grandson, I figured he's old enough to appreciate my old dinky, matchbox, etc toys , I'm in my mid 50s and still have 2 box's full. What a joy to watch him as we open tins, box's and unwrapped old tee shirt containing un know surprises, he carefully looked at each one and had a quick play before putting them back and playing with another..a have a large collection of jeeps "former obsession" which I gave him 5 to play with he spent the next 5 hrs getting them bogged in the settee and pulling them out with a string line snatch strap...grand children are such a blessing ..I attached a couple pics of my old favourites..Gary

Hello from Chimoio (Mozambique).

Was lying in bed going through the usual 4:00am wide awake blanket toss that accompanies long distance travel.

So, a pleasant diversion finding your post - nice memories and a few Corgis and Dinkys that I either used to have myself (tow truck and howitzer) or had forgotten about (Hovercraft and TV van). Great to not be too worried about them to not let your grandson enjoy them much as (from their condition) you also obviously once did too.

I'm in my 60's now and used to have a box of assorted Dinky, Corgi, Matchbox, Britains stuff - we lived on a farm and my Dad also sold farm machinery, so it had a strong bias to Land Rovers, Jeeps, tractors, trailers (you couldn't get enough trailers) etc but also had enough Dinky army stuff to equip a battalion..... All safely in a box in a cupboard in my old bedroom through my university years, 20s to 40s - or so I thought. Unfortunately, my late Dad didn't share our enthusiasm for preserving them for a future generation and from vague mumblings gave them to some passing shearers' kid and that was the last of it.

Picked up most of the more significant ones (see the avatar) through eBay over the years, but I don't suppose it is the same as watching your next generation playing with the orginals.

For what it is worth you can get replacement bits for a lot of the old toys through eBay if you ever decided to go for a restoration - for example, box, tyres, windows and original decals for that tow truck - but then you wouldn't have fun watching them do what they were built for.
Same dilemna facing restorers of the real thing?

Cheers,