Pit Change Charger

[Stretch]

This was my favorite toy as a kid. It was a gift from my Mom and Dad on my 5th birthday. I played with this thing for years. i guess we know where my love of 3rd gen Chargers came from.

Did any of you have one of these? If I find one someday you can be sure I will buy it.

What was your favorite toy as a kid?

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Looks like fun!

Edit: added a double size of the little pic - anymore and it gets too grainy.

 

[69.5CUDA]

damn thats just wicked.....as for fav well...thats not really a fair question...either one of my many tonka's..which i managed to more or less kill 3 of the dumptrucks from genuine hard use..my "green machine" or one of my many hotwheels and sto-n-go sets for them..only thing i dont still have is my green machine

 

[BootHead]

That is pretty cool!
Automotive related toys? well it'd be a toss-up between the SST smash em up derby set and the sizzler track.

Overall item that could hold my attention for hours, fricken' Magic Window.

 

[Fishy]

Gotta say my old Tonka as well. When I was a kid, all the neighborhood kids had one and we lived on a hill. [smilie=i: Just so happens we could all fit in the dump beds of our Tonkas....a few scraped knees and elbows and I'm sure a couple concussions were had by all, but damn it was fun!! :gaga:

 

[68R/T]

I didn't have any toys....

 

[69.5CUDA]

that sand window...i have one...sizler track..those were ok...but NOTHING compared to criss cross crash..except maybe the RR crossing or X track of slot cars...or the ultra rare old tyco slotless(back when muscle cars were all you could buy) they had a intersection ...that...is EPIC

 

[Dr.Jass]

I loved my slot-car tracks. A good childhood friend tried to one-up me with TCR (Total Control Racing) complete with Jam Car, but it was horribly unreliable and we inevitably went back to my Tyco stuff. At least the TCR stuff taught me a lot about electronics, as did hopping up my Tyco and A/FX cars. Nobody I knew could keep up with my modified A/FX '79 RX-7.

 

[69.5CUDA]

actualy doc i have a HUGE pile of that old tcr stuff..its a bit tempermental but once you know the tricks its actualy incredibly reliable...i once set up a 250+ foot track of it glitch free

as far as slot car stuff..ultimate fun has and always will be the old us-1 turcking tyco stuff

 

[Dr.Jass]

Oh, I learned all the secrets of the TCR track and cars. The bitch of it is that they were never nearly as fast as the Tyco/Aurora stuff. My hyped-up Aurora A/FX Mazda (a few years old at the time) would smoke anything TCR, as well as the fastest Tyco cars of the era--the 440HP2s (notice any Mopar connection in that name?) which were almost twice as fast as the TCR cars.

Go faster with less messing around... kind of like being a Mopar guy, no?

Grandpa & I set up the track at camp one year, and the RX-7 went flying. We never found it. I think it ended up in the furnace via the floor vents. The same thing happened to my AMX Hot Wheels car... playing, then gone forever in the same camp.

 

[69.5CUDA]

its 440x2 btw caus the hp2s were slower with a different wheelbase..the 440x2s had a convertable wheelbase..then there were the hp7 cars which kinda sucked..i hand wound me a few animals over the years and even played with up to 4 transformers for some HEAVY insanity as well as ULTRA high output train transformersrigger thru the normal controlers...i melted more than a few

the TCR i was refering to was the tyco version..your refering to the aurora "rattler" there was a "matchbox" tcr that was simply labled tcr..it REALLY sucked..the aurora one worked ok but was still a dog ..the tyco one worked very smooth and had some of the coolest mopars ever offered

as far as speed goes..ive modded more slots than i care to think of..everything from super pulling duty bigrig tyco's to all out spin the tires off the wheel speed demons.my own hand wound motors..and NOTHING ever compared to the first gen "lifelike" cars..they were not pretty to look at but they were so brutaly fast they could pull the good interlocking tyco track apartguard rails wernt just a good idea..but a REQUIREMENT..and a loop to loop would get ripped apart every time

hey doc you by chance remember the tyco wheelstander slots or the ORIGINAL tiny lil motor cycles?..ive got some really really old stuff around..even the tyco stuff from before they moved to the standard they started way back that they still use today

 

[Jr.]

That is pretty cool!
Automotive related toys? well it'd be a toss-up between the SST smash em up derby set and the sizzler track.

Overall item that could hold my attention for hours, fricken' Magic Window.

Not to sound cynical... but can it go on facebook?