(me) Whadda ya mean it doesn't look like my truck!!
(wife) It's very nice. Look! It even has some blue on it...
(me) your laughing at me...
(wife) No, no... really, it is very nice...

so who all remembers tinker toys??
(the pic sucks...)

 

I loved tinker toys. Wish I could find mine. I found my legos the other night and started thinking up ways to build a mock up of a CTD.

 

Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, and Panel and Girder were the things I spent hours at. Guess I should of gone into construction.

 

Me too! Then I discovered Heathkits....

MikeyB

 

I remember building girder and panel skyscrapers for the sole purpose of knocking them down - I shoulda gone into demolitions!

 

now it is hard to find a child with tinker toys, erector sets, etc. I think it is kind of sad for the future

 

I was an outside kid. I had my toy tractors and the hillside next to our house. in 5 years I had a nice spread of farmland and even a few houses. I used to make front end loaders and hitches for my toy tractors.
DM01

 

I used to use Lego's all the time and my mother used to call me a construction worker. So I told her I had a back injury and started to collect......at the age of 7. Life is good.

 

Could build a great CTD with Mechano. You could add on the engines, power winches,... (I wonder what you could use for the Turbo..........)

 

I had a huge Meccano set that was added to every year. It had a great set of gears and motors (electric and windup) so could build almost anything. My father even built me a working stream engine that I could use with it to power things. One thing I built with the Meccano that comes to mind was a fully working model of a drilling rig that could actually drill holes in the ground.
If I had that now it would be easy to build a replica of my Ram. Except it would be green and red. (the color of the Meccano parts) Even the 4X4 would work.
As an adult I built up many Heathkits and even built them for friends that were less talented. Great fun.

 

Now you've got me going! (And I sold my Meccano 2 years ago for $75 )

 

Looks good! With a tag axle to boot.

 

Gee... you guys are giving me a complex... I come here looking for support...

 

Never had most of the other cool toys mentioned, but I had a good set of lego I spent many, many hours building with. I also spent many hours in the summer digging in the dirt and building roads with my tonka construction equipment. Those were some of the happiest hours of my life.