Autoshite toybox - indoctrinating our youth

[Tartan58]

Our boys are around a year and a half old and as you would expect/hope just love anything with wheels.

 

Most of their time is spent playing with their toy cars of which 90% are my old ones so are between 20 and 30 years old.

 

I thought it would be interesting (for me at least) to compile a list of those which fall into the autoshite category:

 

Citroen CX

Renault 25

Simca 1308

Dastun/Nissan Estate of some description

Citroen Xantia

Vauxhall Nova

Rover 800 (police and civilian variants)

Renault 5 Mk1 (Turbo and TL)

Metro Mk1

Saab 9000

Merceded W124 taxi

Jaguar XJ6

Renault 11

Fiat X19

 

Plus various Ferraris Porshes etc. that aren't really of interest here!

 

Makes me proud to see them playing with these cars, but as they get older they'll probably start to wonder why they never see any of them on the roads!

 

[Bear]

You should hunt carboots for the big Corgi Rekord, and SD1 - and tne Matchbox SD1 with the sliding sunroof.

[gordonbennet]

Good man, excellent initial training there, long may they continue to be taught in our ways, all too soon they'll be at the start of their 13/15 years of intensive brainwashing where everything new is good comrade, independent thought disapproved, and everything from the previous era must be shunned or despised, continue to delete daily as necessary all the utter bollocks filed in their heads.   

 

 

My favourite Corgi car was the driving school Cambridge/Oxford in light blue with proper steering linked to a steering wheel on the roof, unfortunately i have so little of my childhood things life left due to a poor choice relaitionship where nearly everything of my childhood vanished.

[sierraman]

Mine loves cars. She wanted to get them out at 5.30 the other morning. I like cars but I also treasure my sleep so I had to decline at that time in the morning. She is definitely a shite buyer in the making, several shite owned including a Datsun estate purchased from poundland last week.

[Tartan58]

You should hunt carboots for the big Corgi Rekord, and SD1 - and tne Matchbox SD1 with the sliding sunroof.

 

That reminds me, there was a corgi SD1 police car somewhere but not seen it for a while probably under a sofa.

There's also a Volvo 760 Turbo which I'd forgotten about.

[inconsistant]

 

 

Porshes etc. that aren't really of interest here!

 

 

Careful now! My son has a Corgi Porsche 924 german police, the white one with the green doors and bonnet. Doors and plastic hatch open but no Pascha interior unfortunately. He doesn't play with cars much but tone is a big hit.

[mercrocker]

My daughter is in her late 20s.   When she was three I let her pick a toy out at a car boot sale and she chose a big placcy 190E.  I still have it - sat on the bathroom cabinet.  Its survived a divorce and four house moves and always ends up finding a place to sit (the 190E, not the daughter...).    Now she has kids of her own - eldest is 4 and regular recipient of Hot Wheels from me.  I have also started to restore some old Dinky toys to give him - the ones before windows and opening parts so he can play with them how he likes.   I really like the way Pixar's Cars films have got him to recognise things like Gremlins, Yugos and Hudson Hornets....

[oldcars]

My wee one loves his cars too. Likes his Nova best, sure it was a "petrol station" car, corgi ones from years back.

[tooSavvy]

Remember the driving school car.

 

3point turns between a pair of big 'educational' books.

 

I 'learned' a lot.... about car driving

 

 

TS

[Tartan58]

My wee one loves his cars too. Likes his Nova best, sure it was a "petrol station" car, corgi ones from years back.

 

Grey BP liveried one?

There's two of them in 'my' toybox!

[oldcars]

Grey BP liveried one?

There's two of them in 'my' toybox!

Yep sure thats the one.

[carlo]

My four year old daughter could name all of my model cars, Wartburg included.  Now twelve she's lost this skill unfortunately.

[Bear]

Remember the Triumph Acclaim with steering via mirrors?

 

Those old pre-window Dinkys are awesome. I had a big box of them - took the tyres off, stripped them in nitromors, painted in enamel and baked in the oven, they looked amazing.

 

Worthless as a result. But amazing.

[Junkman]

I restored a few Corgies from my childhood and gave them to my children to play with.

Once they are done with them, I'll restore them again and give them to my grandchildren to play with.

[brownnova]

Grey BP liveried one?

There's two of them in 'my' toybox!

I've got one of them too! When I had my brown one I planned to paint or to make it a mini me version of my car... Just never fit round to it. Will have to dig out my toy cars again for a look at what shite there is!

[Split_Pin]

There isn't enough bandwidth to list my toy cars however I have given my 2 year old one of my old Corgi Citroen 2cvs to play with as his own cars have no opening features and he wanted one with the doors opening. I also gave him a Majorette Toyota Landcruiser and a weird Mini Ha Ha from the 1970s. The rest of his growing collection are Hotwheels and modern matchbox.

[Split_Pin]

I like to collect those Petrol station BP cars and have been trying to remember what the complete range was. I still have a Volvo 760, Citroen 2cv with flowers on it, the Visco Nov, Pointers Transit MK3 and BMW 3 series racing car.

 

What were the others, from memory of the other ones I used to have:

Rainbow Talbot Rancho

Green Jaguar Xj6

Green Jaguar XJS

Ferrari 328 convertible

Schweppes Pontiac Firebird

Loctite Renault Trafic

Blue BP R5 Turbo

Burgundy Merc 190

Orange Jeep

Polo Porsche 935

mk2 Transit recovery truck

BMW 325

Home fire Sierra

Duchams Land Rover

Duckhams Escort

Home fire Capri

Volvo Car transporter super hauler but I think you had to add coin to this.

 

I remember the circular paper tokens that you collected at the petrol station to get these cars.

[MarvinsMom]

at some point in my yooof i inherited/acquired a blue corgi mini, with a union jack sticker thing on the roof. 

 

at some point later it was joined by a red austin metro (mini-metro in fact)

 

i still have them, they are the larger scale versions (1/36th scale i think?) and also a smaller Datapost liveried metro and i'm 41 now....

[Split_Pin]

I've got the same Metro, always loved it as it looked overly wide and short compared to the 1:1 scale version.

[Taff]

Our boys are around a year and a half old and as you would expect/hope just love anything with wheels.

 

Most of their time is spent playing with their toy cars of which 90% are my old ones so are between 20 and 30 years old.

 

I thought it would be interesting (for me at least) to compile a list of those which fall into the autoshite category:

 

Citroen CX

Renault 25

Simca 1308

Dastun/Nissan Estate of some description

Citroen Xantia

Vauxhall Nova

Rover 800 (police and civilian variants)

Renault 5 Mk1 (Turbo and TL)

Metro Mk1

Saab 9000

Merceded W124 taxi

Jaguar XJ6

Renault 11

Fiat X19

 

Plus various Ferraris Porshes etc. that aren't really of interest here!

 

Makes me proud to see them playing with these cars, but as they get older they'll probably start to wonder why they never see any of them on the roads!

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/20946-ive-got-one-of-my-dream-motors/

 

steady, tiger

[Tartan58]

Taff - your thread did spring to mind as I was adding the X19 to the list - however mine is quite definitely in the autoshite category having most of the paint missing and cracked windows among other things.

 

Pretty much all of the cars in my list have been very well used by myself 30ish years ago and now by our boys so I'm not precious about them in any way.

 

I do have another box stashed away of the ones which have been cherished and that I want to keep that way!

[Tartan58]

I've got the same Metro, always loved it as it looked overly wide and short compared to the 1:1 scale version.

 

Yep that's the one I have as well.

 

On that note does anyone remember the "Little Red Metro" books? Crammed full of 80s BL wonderment!

 

I have one or two somewhere, probably in my mums loft which I must look out.

 

Just found the link below which has them in PDF - that's my lunchtime reading sorted...it was "for sale" and "gets cold feet" that I had, never seen the other two, I am genuinely excited to read them after 30 years!

 

http://www.metroownersclub.org/index.php/2012-08-16-12-40-50/the-little-red-metro-books

 

 

[edit] ...something for the "bargains" thread?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xlittle+red+metro.TRS0&_nkw=little+red+metro&_sacat=0

 

 

Just lobbed a bid on these ones to try and complete my set:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-X-BOOKS-THE-LITTLE-RED-METRO-GETS-COLD-FEET-GETS-STARTED-/351535854005?hash=item51d92b71b5&autorefresh=true

[sierraman]

Moar shite

[Parky]

Parkette loved my old toy cars, mainly because she enjoyed arranging them in their respective colours. That's autism for you!

 

Parky Jnr was never that interested, it's almost as if he is resisting turning into his Father. He'll learn, you can't fight your background (or male pattern baldness ha ha ha ha!). I look forward to having a series of shonky motors outside the house and bits of cylinder head in the bath in about four years time

[Bren]

Moar shite

I like the majorette mercedes.

[oldcars]

I like to collect those Petrol station BP cars and have been trying to remember what the complete range was. I still have a Volvo 760, Citroen 2cv with flowers on it, the Visco Nov, Pointers Transit MK3 and BMW 3 series racing car.

 

What were the others, from memory of the other ones I used to have:

Rainbow Talbot Rancho

Green Jaguar Xj6

Green Jaguar XJS

Ferrari 328 convertible

Schweppes Pontiac Firebird

Loctite Renault Trafic

Blue BP R5 Turbo

Burgundy Merc 190

Orange Jeep

Polo Porsche 935

mk2 Transit recovery truck

BMW 325

Home fire Sierra

Duchams Land Rover

Duckhams Escort

Home fire Capri

Volvo Car transporter super hauler but I think you had to add coin to this.

 

I remember the circular paper tokens that you collected at the petrol station to get these cars.

There was also a Merc 190e, got that, the Nova, Volvo, Traffic and a few more. Need to dig them out.