Vintage Die Cast Truck Rescued

[neodetectorist]

When I found these to 2 toy vehicles, I thought what common ground they share.
About 60 years separate these 2 finds but they share a lost emotion from their owners. Each probably felt the same loss when they realized their toy was gone.
Possibly more with the die cast truck because hot wheel type car to die cast truck ratio is probable 50 to 1 lol.
The car is a 2004 Porsche Carrara.
The die cast truck is possibly a 1940s vintage “Hubley type” of a toy.
The truck actually came out of the hole in 4 pieces and I had to use guerrilla glue to bring it back to life.
The rubber wheels have long dissolved into the earth.
I may have smacked it with my lesche……….oops. It may have been bent anyway.
I love this relic though.

 

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[JohnnyMac]

View attachment 2071807 When I found these to 2 toy vehicles, I thought what common ground they share.
About 60 years separate these 2 finds but they share a lost emotion from their owners. Each probably felt the same loss when they realized their toy was gone.
Possibly more with the die cast truck because hot wheel type car to die cast truck ratio is probable 50 to 1 lol.
The car is a 2004 Porsche Carrara.
The die cast truck is possibly a 1940s vintage “Hubley type” of a toy.
The truck actually came out of the hole in 4 pieces and I had to use guerrilla glue to bring it back to life.
The rubber wheels have long dissolved into the earth.
I may have smacked it with my lesche……….oops. It may have been bent anyway.
I love this relic though.

Nice save

 

[creskol]

Pressed steel or diecast? Looks like steel. Anyway, finding an old toy is always fun!

 

[Bamasteve]

Nice

 

[tamrock]

Pressed steel or diecast? Looks like steel. Anyway, finding an old toy is always fun!

I thought it was pressed sheet steel at first, but it's a thinly cast pot metal. I think those were still being sold in the stores when I was a kid around 6 years old if memory serves me. It was then around 1961 plastic toys started hitting the shelves in a big way and trucks were still cool, especially if it had a big turret cannon or missile launch mounted on it. but the threat of the comies began to escalate and my interest in toys had changed from cowboy stuff to coolest weapons of mass destruction. That was one of those Christmases I remember I got what I really wanted.

 

[creskol]

I thought it was pressed sheet steel at first, but it's a thinly cast pot metal. I think those were still being sold in the stores when I was a kid around 6 years old if memory serves me. It was then around 1961 plastic toys started hitting the shelves in a big way and trucks were still cool, especially if it had a big turret cannon mounted on it. but the threat of the comies began to escalate and my interest in toys had changed from cowboy stuff to coolest weapons of mass destruction. That was one of those Christmases I remember I got what I really wanted.

That truck looks rusty. Is that the case or am I seeing things?

Edit: disregard ..I enlarged the pics a realize I am indeed seeing thing. lol.. cool find!

 

[tamrock]

That truck looks rusty. Is that the case or am I seeing things?

To me it looks like a thin layer of crusty dirt.

 

[river roamer]

Cool find

 

[brianc053]

I love finding those old toys, too, Neo - but like you, I feel a little bit of sadness because the child owner was probably upset when they lost the toy (and I also wonder if the parent(s) yelled at the child for losing the toy...).

neodetectorist, I see you're in NE Ohio. I grew up in Erie County, Pennsylvania - just over the border.
- Brian

 

[neodetectorist]

To me it looks like a thin layer of crusty dirt.

Yes, I wanted to keep some crusty dirt on it for affect.

 

[neodetectorist]

I love finding those old toys, too, Neo - but like you, I feel a little bit of sadness because the child owner was probably upset when they lost the toy (and I also wonder if the parent(s) yelled at the child for losing the toy...).

neodetectorist, I see you're in NE Ohio. I grew up in Erie County, Pennsylvania - just over the border.
- Brian

Oh yeah, I am familiar with that area. I am from Summit County.

 

[Digger RJ]

View attachment 2071807 When I found these to 2 toy vehicles, I thought what common ground they share.
About 60 years separate these 2 finds but they share a lost emotion from their owners. Each probably felt the same loss when they realized their toy was gone.
Possibly more with the die cast truck because hot wheel type car to die cast truck ratio is probable 50 to 1 lol.
The car is a 2004 Porsche Carrara.
The die cast truck is possibly a 1940s vintage “Hubley type” of a toy.
The truck actually came out of the hole in 4 pieces and I had to use guerrilla glue to bring it back to life.
The rubber wheels have long dissolved into the earth.
I may have smacked it with my lesche……….oops. It may have been bent anyway.
I love this relic though.

Nice!!! Congrats!!! That old truck has some stories🤣

 

[oldmxrat]

That truck is too cool, congrats!