Junk Drawer Vintage Helicopter Bling Bag Blowout! Gorgeous Sackful of Vintage Plastic Vehicles that Made My Day

DUDE ... Yeah it was fun getting out of bed yesterday. Hookup "Made You An Offer" from a vendor no self respecting hoarder would say no to. Are you kidding?? was what I thought when I saw how little it would be. Many thanks, Sir or Madam.

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The star of the pile, spotted it in a thumbnail of the whole junkpile on a fone and knew it was out of the ordinary. Still no idea what real-world helicopter it might be based on, though I will concede that it may just be a super-simplified CH-47 (callsign "Chinook"). But don't think so. If it looks familiar hit us up! You don't have to sign in to comment. 

I gots to know.

Larger roadster missing one wheel. Other than that the whole lot of it in admirable condition.

Nice little SAAB jet, and that dude on the Go-Cart was one of the eye-catchers for the lot. Da heck is that??

I like it. Moon Base personal transport buggy for maintenance staff.

Gilmark Toys "Howitzer Carrier", hard clinky plastic. Top half of a self-propelled gun missing tank treads.

Staff car by Mohawk, soft plastic. Have a little Army Jeep by them in hard plastic as well.

Some sort of fender bender mishap, a recurring art theme. It's why I need small vehicles, can't draw stuff like that but the picture can be adapted, messed with, printed, painted, etc. Doesn't even matter what color the toy pieces are, everything can be altered.

Mr. Sato's car from "You Only Live Twice", soft plastic. Marked Hong Kong on underside.

Bronco Toys Moon Bus, hard plastic maybe 2 inches total length? I do not know they year on these but am presuming early 1970s based on other Bronco labeled cars I have seen. Already had one in my stash which played a supporting role in a photo based spacework last year.

Nice how the siren light is an opaque orange above, new arrival's is a translucent red.

Would like to learn more about these. Also seen by my eyes in yellow with blue roof light.

Good luck searching "Bronco Toys". You'll see page after page of diecast Hot Wheel and Matchbox type trucks with very little else. Even choosing plastic as a material doesn't help much. Will try again when more patient, just want to see what else they made. And yeah, I want that yellow one now too.

Pretty sure it's based on the Sikorsky CH-19 (callsign "Chickasaw).

Compared with a Galoob Micro Machine CH-34 (callsign "Choctaw") and it's agreeably different.

Rescuing Pilot Down Behind The Lines

Comparing body shapes with a Marx Boeing-Vertol H-47 (green) in what I presume is a civilian configuration. And a Piasecki HUP (blue) and none match. Yellow helicopter is a wedge shape angling downward towards the cockpit.

All look different, but it has more in common with the blue helicopter than the green one.

No rear wheel hubs on the yellow one. The Marx helicopter shows a tricycle landing gear but I'm not sure if that's universal, military CH-47s have four wheels with hubs both front and back. The hull shapes are totally different and I doubt it's just from simplifying the form. The yellow one is meant to look like that.

Marooning the Mutinous Corporal Willard on Cestus III

So beautiful ... The missing port turbojet its only real flaw.

"Flying Potato Wedge"

Finally noticing the Hong Kong along the middle of the hull's bottom. They could not have made the script smaller if they were trying to.

Nah, that's not a Chinook. Maybe the HUP super-simplified? One thing about the HUP is that it was out of service by 1964. If the form is based on a real-world vehicle you can bet lunch for all next week that the toy would have been made while it was still in service. So if that's an HUP it was made 1963 or earlier. Some of the little plastic trucks in the lot could have been made early as 1950, so it's within the realm that this too is 1960 or earlier ...

ISN'T THIS EXCITING?!! Yes!!

The Day Sgt. Henderschodt Flipped Out and Just ... Ran Away

Bubble Dome Tailfin Plastic Space Cars from West Germany & Hong Kong, Middle/Late 1950s?

One of the pride & joys of my New Old Stock stash. "Space Vehicles" works as a name I guess, and the graphics do match. Carded set assembled by "LMR" - whomever they were - from simplistic plastic toy cars fabricated in Hong Kong at an as-yet undetermined point in time. Fell in love with the line instantly and maintained a display of admirable restraint in not opening the set, kept "sealed" only by staples. The act rewarded this fall by a score of four loose vehicles which appear to be from the series.

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I've been enjoyably puzzled by the things since first sight. Bodies are soft or stiff plastic with a hard plastic dome, simplistic wheels and what looks to be a plastic body cast from a die. The vehicle designs reek of 1950s futurism and would look right at home as miniatures in an Antonio Margheriti "Gamma One" movie.

Size & stylistic comparison to Hot Wheels' 2020 "Mattel Dream Mobile" which also has prominent bubble top and tailfin features. Vehicle first marketed in 1953 in a 1/24 scale friction drive toy designed by Elliot Handler and Joseph Kossof. Hot Wheels 1/64 scale version by Ryu Asada and Neal "Neelco" Smith, also ships in teal blue and key lime green. The stylistic similarity suggests contemporaneous design era, use of soft plastic suggests 1954 or 1955 as the earliest Hong Kong cars would have been in production.

Not My Collection - Further nosing around that well known auction site leads to some answers in the form of this batch which appear similar but are quite different. This group all manufactured in West Germany with interesting fictional vehicle specs stamped on their undersides. The fit & finish of the cars is also noticeably better then the Hong Kong vehicles, which one must conclude are copies of the German rigs. I do not have any examples of them in my stash just yet so I do not know if we are looking  at hard or soft plastic hulls & wheels.

Cheers to the original uploader of these pix which are not of vehicles in my collection.

From the texture of the underside of this specimen I'd say that's a soft plastic body, the wheels as well.

The designer must have been having a ball when concocting those vehicle specs.

My favorite of the designs. That thing is all boss.

Another set with the same attributes. Yeah I want that Space Truck, on my desk, lookin' at me. Also quite noticeable is how uniform and well-crafted the bubble domes are in comparison to the Hong Kong cars.

So, an attribute to look for are white wheels. If the wheels are black it is likely a Hong Kong copy. Check the markings to be sure, and give me a shout if there are any extras to go around.

Still very sweet, and from my eye cast from the same mold (die?) but with less care. The fictional vehicle specs from the underside of the German cars are all scratched out with Made In Hong Kong stamped over the mess. Would they be "copies" or "recasts"? To me a copy means a new sculpt including using an original toy as a mold positive. So my opinion is that these were recasts made from the German molds with the stamping information removed. Then fabricated in Hong Kong by a toy company less focused on quality then pressing units.

"Wild Wild Planet" car.

Note poor forming on that right headlamp.

I think this one's my favorite of the looses. Rolls the best of the bunch too.

This one may end up in a space artwork with its body repainted. Don't care much for the pink. Bubble dome is also unevenly formed.