I found this at a thrift shop... it was less than a dollar, I just couldn't let it sit there.

http://home.comcast.net/%7Erwurtz/images/tonkamust05.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/%7Erwurtz/images/tonkamust06.jpg

Shame about the front chrome. It seems to have a friction motor, but it doesn't work. Anyone know what these were called? I've seen a somewhat similar one on Fleabay called a Scorcher, but it was even more cartoony than this, with way out-of-proportion big'n'littles. It was actually an older Mustang Fastback.

I also saw, in an antique store, a Tonka toy car about the same size as this, but it was a white mid-70s Chevelle stock car... you push it to rev the friction motor up, then you press a little yellow button in the rear window to engage some kind of clutch and launch it... anyone familiar with that one, or have an idea when it was made?

thanks in advance...

(hey, technically, these are stamped steel, aren't they? so they're technically not diecast? maybe I should post them O/T...)

--rick

Pretty cool... it looks like a Mustang II to me...