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mimismo Sun 17-Mar-19 17:46:00

The Tomy ones are more similar than the Tonkas. It was possibly a Fisher Price? I remember that thick white plastic they used. You pushed down the driver and the doors opened. Then they'd close one by one, the driver popped up and they whizzes off. Definitely a crawler/toddler toy, I can remember my son banging his head when he tried to follow the car under the sofa!

Soupy Mon 11-Mar-19 20:57:12

The Tomy ones are similar. We had these about 30 years ago.
www.amazon.co.uk/s/?hvlocphy=1006951&hvptwo&hvnetw=g&keywords=tomy+push+and+go&hvadid=259043042763&index=aps&hvpone&ref=pd_sl_79s7vfbh4k_e&hvlocint&hvpos=1t1&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt=e&tag=gransnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&hvtargid=kwd-299994179406&adgrpid=53549968016&hvrand=114493066748478440

NotSpaghetti Mon 11-Mar-19 20:46:38

The ones I sent the video links to were Tonkas

Auntieflo Mon 11-Mar-19 12:20:54

I bought our GGS his first Porche on Saturday ?
50p in a charity shop. grin

glammanana Mon 11-Mar-19 09:18:35

kitty My son's had all the Tonka trucks and played with them for years passed on to my DGSs when they where small.They have been well used and are now going to be passed on to my GGS this year.

MiniMoon Mon 11-Mar-19 09:17:32

You just brought back happy memories of my son playing with his dinosaur cars. They were purple and blue, and had a dinosaur sticking out of the top. He pushed the dinosaur down an d the car sped off across the floor. He loved them and called them Tom and Mary.

kittylester Mon 11-Mar-19 09:13:22

My blessed phone - I proof read that too.

For Donnas please read Tonkas!

kittylester Mon 11-Mar-19 08:36:48

Don't remember that car but I loved Donnas. We still call big yellow earth moving type things 'Tonkas'.

NotSpaghetti Mon 11-Mar-19 08:20:03

Was it a version of the “clutch popper”?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUcxa8ewJQ
Or the “wheelie blaster”?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaD8Nfk65og

Tonka made a few versions of vehicles with a clutch and so that’s what I think it might have been.

mimismo Thu 24-Jan-19 12:16:36

Does anyone remember a toy car available some 36 years ago. When you pushed down the driver the doors opened, then after a short while the doors shut, the driver popped up and the car whizzed off. I can remember the fun my son had with this but a) can't find it in the loft and b) can't remember the manufacturer to research on internet. Does it ring a bell with anyone else?