I was born in 59 and had Tonka trucks in the early 60,s but when I turned 5 I collected matchbox cars. I'm 65 now and still have them all, 400 to 500 of them . Never took an exact count. I stopped collecting them when the hotwheels version came out. I thought they were cheezy as hotwheels
Very cool collection. My brother and I were in the mid 1950s. Had various construction equipment, the pan scrapper, road grader. We had that orange snowplow truck and I remember you squeezed the plow lights together to disconnect the plow. Lots of fun days playing with them out in the dirt.
What an amazing collection. I have never seen all those different examples before. However I do have one that was shown In the video from when I was a child. Thanks for showing this!
Born and raised in MN, I naturally lean towards the acquisition of nice, original conditioned Tonka. Although my very first pressed steel toy was a Structo power shovel, Santa got it right in 1961 with the Tonka "Giant Bulldozer" under the Christmas tree. Since then I've replaced these toys and added a few more that all sit on my display shelves.
I JUST started and oh MY! What a collection, ive never seen one this large. Ever. And ive been to a few toy museums and a couple collections. Holy moly... i could just look around for hours without even touching anything 😂
So funny we used to play with our toys so hard that sometimes they would get in very serious car wrecks there would be nothing left of them. We have so much playing when we were kids in building things. I think of if I would have been a millionaire if I had saved some of them baseball cards we used to put on our bicycles with clothes pins to make her bike sound like Harleys.
I second this. I've had to back up multiple times to catch stuff. There's SO MUCH! I've always loved collections like this. This one however is astounding. Giggity indeed.
I was born in 59 and had Tonka trucks in the early 60,s but when I turned 5 I collected matchbox cars. I'm 65 now and still have them all, 400 to 500 of them . Never took an exact count. I stopped collecting them when the hotwheels version came out. I thought they were cheezy as hotwheels
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Ive already seen dozens that ive never seen, but the Jeepster, what a neat surprise!
Glad you like it 👍👍
Thanks for the tour. Cool collection!
Thanks for the feedback, Mark!
Right on I have a couple of toys like Ed’s but not even close to what he’s got ! So jealous 😂😂😀🇨🇦
I just started the video and ive never seen a collection like this... wowza!
Very cool collection. My brother and I were in the mid 1950s. Had various construction equipment, the pan scrapper, road grader. We had that orange snowplow truck and I remember you squeezed the plow lights together to disconnect the plow. Lots of fun days playing with them out in the dirt.
Wow, great memories
What an amazing collection. I have never seen all those different examples before. However I do have one that was shown In the video from when I was a child. Thanks for showing this!
Very cool!
My son loved this video! He said he wants to buy them all and put them in his house :)
Have to tell Ed my dad also collects Tonkas but his collection isn’t near your caliber lol
Killer collection
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Born and raised in MN, I naturally lean towards the acquisition of nice, original conditioned Tonka. Although my very first pressed steel toy was a Structo power shovel, Santa got it right in 1961 with the Tonka "Giant Bulldozer" under the Christmas tree. Since then I've replaced these toys and added a few more that all sit on my display shelves.
Sounds like a great collection!
Very very cool. Ed knows more then just engines.
I JUST started and oh MY! What a collection, ive never seen one this large. Ever. And ive been to a few toy museums and a couple collections. Holy moly... i could just look around for hours without even touching anything 😂
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So funny we used to play with our toys so hard that sometimes they would get in very serious car wrecks there would be nothing left of them. We have so much playing when we were kids in building things. I think of if I would have been a millionaire if I had saved some of them baseball cards we used to put on our bicycles with clothes pins to make her bike sound like Harleys.
My cards died the same way… 😂
Yup, we got ALL the fun out of them by the time they were finished…
I had some from the 60’s. They were indestructible
I collect model cars and hot wheels. Have thousands. 45+yr collection. Also have 20,000+ car magazines. And i collect engines and vintage race parts.
Wow - sounds amazing
@@BarryTsGarage Takes up a lot of space. My living room is full of big block Chevy parts. Can't quit tho.
My cousin had a tonka dump truck and I had a Buddy L dump truck i was born in 1962
6:04 Omg....is that a 1" drive ratchet, in the foreground? It's the size of a parking meter( that's what I thought it was at first).
Giggity
I second this. I've had to back up multiple times to catch stuff. There's SO MUCH!
I've always loved collections like this. This one however is astounding. Giggity indeed.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 I see you are a man of culture. Welcome friend.