My Father drove a belly dump when I was 4 for a company called Fedderly-Marion freight lines in the Seattle area during late 60’s their trucks were almost the same shade of Yellow. I had this toy and used to pretend I was my Dad at work when playing in the sand box in my back yard ...good memories...thanks for the share!
@@charchee1950 Thanks. I actually have 3 brand new ones. I also have some new ones in the works as well. Watch for my scheduled streams and hit that reminder.
I have this exact model. I moved many yards of dirt with it. And maybe someday I'll restore it. Tonka and Buddy L were awesome toys. I spent a lot of hours in the sandbox. Nice job!
A 1/18 or 1/24 resto or custom would be cool. Diecast Resurrection has done some 1/18 restos in the last few months that turned out nice. I'd love to see what Baremetal could do with one.
What do you do to break up the yellow? I think it looked better before. Not dissing the restoration job at all. I think he did a nice job. But it just doesn't look right all that yellow. Like it needs pin striping or maybe some lettering or something.
I'm 63 years old and I had this same gravel spreader truck as a child. Mine was refrigerator white. I was shocked when you painted it yellow. At least I got to see it in white primer. No rust addition please. The truck is pretty as it is. I always thought it looked futuristic. Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
Amazing work buddy! That was an amazing tip about folding the tabs with special pliers; and putting it back together fast before paint dries to a crisp so the paint doesn’t crack... great job indeed!
I'm a big fan of powder coating these toys. I follow a channel called "Restoration & Restore" that specialises in these pressed metal toys and while they all distil down to media blasting and powder coating, they are still a nice relaxing process to keep watching.
Great job with the restoration! Personally, I think a sightly darker yellow would have looked a little better, but it looks great as is. Thanks for putting up another video! :-D I look forward to the poll!
I've never restored hot wheels, or anything similar, but I love your videos. I work on and restore old motorcycles, and in doing so, have used sandblasters quite a bit. I've personally never had a problem with small amounts of paint on parts I'm blasting. The only problem are oil soaked parts, which I'm assuming is not much of a problem for you. I'm no expert, but I'd guess you would be fine to remove paint with your blasting set up, and should only need to filter the media after quite a few jobs. I dont know your exact set up, but I think you should be ok. Anyway, love your stuff man, keep em coming.
I have never really knew how good the audio quality is until watching this on my PC with some decent headphones instead of just watching it on my phone.
It looks great and you have preserved a piece of toy history! I learned a lot from this tutorial so I will be watching it again. Thanks for the information.
Great! A friend of mine had TONKA-Trucks in the 1980s and we used them as Supertanks for our Toy-Soldiers. I loved the design. Greetings from Ulm, Germany
I've said this to other people I follow. If you enjoy the process and express your feelings and thoughts throughout of the process, go for it. I would say that most people watch for the process as much as they watch because of what you restore.
I found my grandpa’s old Tonka Ferrari in my great grandpa’s hay barn and I’m going to surprise him with it all restored. Unfortunately the base has holes and tabs that have been dissolved by rust.
I did have a few different Tonka trucks when I was a kid, they are long gone now. That truck was happy as hell you found it at the flea market, went from Rags to Riches. Great job my friend.
A few tips that may help when restoring these Tonka trucks: Source replacement decals, pop the tires off the rims and treat them in peroxide the same way you did the interior, and invest in a powder coating setup. There is even a powder coat primer that would help eliminate more of that pesky pitting. I watch a channel called Rescue & Restore and they specialize in metal toys like this. The videos are silent, but the guy is able to pull off some miracles!!
I am a longtime 62 year old scale modeler, and have done plenty of weathering on plastic models. But I prefer this Tonka truck in like-new paint condition. It looks really good. Wish I still had my old steel Tonka trucks.
Nice work. I had one of these, and several other small Tonka trucks when I was a kid. I even had the Winnebago version of that truck. They are from the '70s not the '80s. Love this vid, lots of memories.
When i was 4 i would ride my then ginormous Tonka dump truck down a hill. Fun times :) I love watching the new techniques that you brimg to theae awesome restoration....Looking forward to the next one.
That FTC callout right there man. Nice. Still wanna watch out though. They are less specific about actual content and more just 'hurdur look a toy' sadly enough. Took all my own old gaming vids from when I was like 16 offline just in case they mistook that for something aimed at kids. Hope they will leave you entirely alone. Love the content and keep it up
I have pretty diverse content myself. I restore vintage motorcycles and such, but also do a lot of "toys" they are aimed at adults, but not sure if the FTC will see it that way
Hey man, I love how genuine you are. If you don't know something, you admit it and ask for tips. You don't see that a lot nowadays. The restoration process looks so rewarding!! Love the videos man.
Actually that came out really nice! :-) I really like how you do the windows. Every video I watched of yours I'm always impressed with how the windows come out so shiny and scratch free! thumbs up
Lovely job! I love pristine restorations normally, but I reckon that fake 'Ratted' rusty look would be cool. Those Tonka toys were beasts alright....built to last!
That turned out great! Yeah more Tonka restorations, that's my childhood toy. I've got several; the same as you have here but with a digger on the trailer, right up to a massive dump truck and a digger with control levers.
You are the coolest person on the planet if you ask me. I'd like to see you add rust how the truck would rust if it were real and being used daily for 30 years with BM & Co gravel spreaders on the door.
Very nice restoration and yes....your statement "man, these things take a lot of work" is both true and appreciated. I restore toy trucks from the 1920s and 1930s so just bear in mind that in all labor....there is love.
The truck looks great! I had that truck - along with many other Tonka trucks - as a child. Like other children, I left it out in the yard a lot...as I recall, they rusted fairly quick. I like the new just out of the box look ..but that's just me.
Love the old Tonkas.I still have a lowboy with the dozer in its original box IV only taken it out just to look at its never been played with.Also have the larger lowboy with the bulldozer and it's in nice shape and all original.Really like the restoration vidios.Keep up the good work.
I have a few of these as well...some in same or worse shape. You did the right thing by trying to restore this. 😃Anything worth having is worth the time to get it into go working shape. 🧐You took a couple extra steps, but it was better to...love the sandblaster. Those are wonderful! The right tools make things much easier. 😍I think it turned out rather nicely! Weathering...I don’t think it’s really necessary, unless you plan to build a working scene that includes dirt or something like that.🤩
These are the trucks I played with, I even made my own trailers for them. Even had the low boy with the dozer. Because of these trucks and equipment I became a heavy equipment operator in the Seabees.
I realize the extra effort involved in working on the larger scale models, however they do look amazing!!! And the different construction techniques from different manufacturers really peaks my interest. I can only hope you can do more of these in the future. Best wishes and hope the local weather has improved. Cheers.
I had this toy! Along with a tractor with a bucket I just watched on another channel! Hours of fun in my huge sandpit, which was inside a very large old tractor tyre. :)
I've never had the slightest bit of trouble with paint flakes clogging the gun, and if you are particularly concerned about it, it's pretty much trivial to just run the media through some window screen and remove all the chunkies. Congrats on getting a blast cabinet, man, you're going to LOVE the capability there!
A year late, but I have to say I kinda dig the tapered screw. I've always liked leaving signs of a restoration, even though most restorationists would like to make the end result look as original as possible. I think it's more authentic to show off that 'hey, this ain't the original.' Even though the bright yellow paint should be more than enough for a sign, lol. If you ever revisit this one, I'd like to see you rust it like a real truck, man. I don't think you need to, though. I kinda dig the pristine look... although the rusted original is admittedly cooler.
Since I watch your videos I don't ever use the phrase "build like a toy." Good toys are the result of good engineering! It deserves much more appreciation than we usually give!
Well done! I make vintage signs from scratch which I "paint" rust on -- I have also had clients bring me real vintage signs that were pretty well rusted, some were missing corners and such. I would then redo them and then add back in some rust in places that could not be fixed. I too like the character of the rust. I definitely think the truck will look better with a little rust here and there.
I would have liked to see the wheels whitened with the Hyd Peroxide method...and maybe go further with pitting repair before paint. Just because your smaller scale cars are always so perfect. Love it as always
I do really appreciate the time and effort for the restoration but you are very right about them looking cooler and more natural when rusted. But good job all up👌
