Practically Classics Forum

ok admit it, who had tonka toys?

Only the full-sized ones with "Volvo" badges on them.

Me!

Now replaced with a 60's lister petter dump truck, 2003 130 defender, and a 1980 ex military 1092 series 3.

I did and they are still in my parents shed!

Me

But it was a proper Tonka that dad got from America!

Afraid not - my parents could not afford them - still I make up for it now days with the day job - I manage sites for a company who own such monsters as this: 90 ton - 25 metre long reach excavator

http://www.youtube.com/user/landandwate ... LBYaUt5axc

mine came from an uncle who worked on the bins, it was amazing the stuff people throw out..
im keen to get a an old dump truck for my daughter who loves all machinery..

Tonka was a bit late for me, when I was a kid it was Matchbox, Dinky, and increasingly Corgi, and by the time tonka became popular in the UK I was past the toy car stage!

I still have some of them, my son and daughter play with then now.