I've just added my biggest piece of vintage toy fun to my collection and perhaps to some depending on their tastes a crown jewel at that. This is from the 1960s, the AMF Pedal Car Fire Fighter 519. This took 3 hours to partially strip down and to clean up using various safe techniques to get a heap of rust off it, the bell was brown initially as was much of the white rails, and there is some more paint wear the camera didn't pick up. I'd factor 85% of it is there and it's totally functional. It's missing a battery powered red light on the hood, the little hooks on the white rail both sides and the ladder that hangs on them, 4 hubcaps, a sticker license plate up front, supposedly it had a white or black padded seat&back, and I think it's missing a small piece that secures the hose assembly in back on the part away from the truck wall (though the hose is all there, functional and hooks up to with the screw on brass part to a real lawn hose. Got it for $125.
When I lived in KY originally in most of the 00's I picked up on the bug bite of liking and wanting vintage 1930s-80s toys and also WW2 items as well. I have this photobucket account of mine that pedal car is linked to. Before my move away from here I already had the big Dodgers game and the yellow portable baseball title (my grandpa/ma mom's side were the creators) and the WW2 japanese rifle, bayonet and sheath I've had, the WW2 field manual, grenade, and the Indiana Jones lunchbox w/thermos and the cards (complete Temple of Doom) too.
Here's much of my old stuff in one set of pictures ->
http://s232.photobucket.com/user/...
I've since added all the rest just since just this year. It started early with the Love Bug in spotless working shape in the box and the hubley corsair all functional and sharp too. The mix of items most of it is 1930s-50s but you see later like the plastic things (stay puft movie premiere giveaway, pillsbury, mighty mouse, huckleberry hound, the pac/ms pac man. My oldest item in the pics is the bayonet with the lithograph behind it from the spanish american war (1890s) and unpictures I do have a Virginia Hymn book from 1861~ that was in the family if I remember right. You an find so much more here than in greedy California at a good price and just variety, there's little there other than in high retail locations. The one item I took away with age from there is a 1945 pocket watch in that one mix of stuff in that picture which I use since I wreck wrist watches (and I wore another I got at a garage sale out here 7~ years ago which is a 1910 Elgin. Funny enough I have even the original Dirty Time watch for Spiro Agnew (busted VP under Nixon) under wraps.
