plastic cars.

[ewetwo]

Does anyone know anything about these cars? The 4 big ones. I have no idea what the little black rod sticking up from the hoods are for. No name anywhere on them that I can see. I'm sure they are Cadillacs. The green ones look to be Mercurys and all that's on them is JVZ Co. And the multi colored ones say F&F Mold and Die Works, Inc.  Dayton, Ohio.

 

[Rodent]

The Mercurys were cereal premiums, I have some that I got out of Honey Comb as a kid. The top ones may be too. No clue on the Cadillacs on the bottom.

[ewetwo]

I figure that the Mercurys are from the late 70's? The other multi colored groups from the 50? And the Caddies from the 50s?

[Art Anderson]

I believe those Cadillacs were sold at places like Kresge's and Woolworth's,  from bins in their toy departments, back in the 1950's, for all of perhaps 25-cents each.

Art

[Rodent]

1 hour ago, ewetwo said:

I figure that the Mercurys are from the late 70's? The other multi colored groups from the 50? And the Caddies from the 50s?

That set of Mercurys were 1969 Models. I have a couple 67 Cougars and a 66 (?) Mustang HT as well.

[ewetwo]

They go to this service station from the 50’s. I thought the link would show the pic. But i’m On my iPad and could not figure out how to copy the picture from EBay.

 

 

Edited November 10, 2018 by ewetwo

[Rodent]

I had a 60s gas station that you put water in one of the pumps. One of the cars had a hole in the trunk lid that allowed you to put "gas" in it. IIRC, it had a pin on the hood like these. It pushed out a plunger on the bottom so you could drain the "gas" when you were done playing with it. 

[von Zipper]

A few of the cars and trucks pictured look like they might be made by a company called-Wannatoy, typical dime store toy cars trucks , air planes and tanks from the 50s and 60s