Beauties Robb, I love the Tonka firetruck, they really dont make them like this anymore. My son has a few of the Bruder toys (don't know if you have them over there?) and despite being the high end toys that I would see as equivalent to these in their day, they are constructed entirely from moulded plastic, they cost an arm and a leg to!

The fire truck looks in great order also, beautiful rich paint.

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There is a kid within you.

At one time time (while I was 10 to 15 years old), I used to make toys with tin sheet. Want to try making one now.

JUNE 7 ESTATE SALE FINDS

1. Records - $2 each, (rare Rolling stones India Pressing)
2. Sony sealed blank cassettes - $0.25 each
3. Vintage 1/2 Gallon Gas can complete with nozzle - $1

June 21 2014 garage sale finds.
I got lucky today. Went looking for garage sales in an older neighbourhood.
Stopped at one and found a few items:

1. Vintage unopened 1958 Canada Dry Old English Ginger Beer Bottle - $3.00

2. Vintage 1976 Electrohome model C24-301 Color 9" Portable TV - Made in Japan, nice shape, Regular price was $349 back in the day. - $5.00

(TV came with the elusive Sony AN-15 UHF Antenna I needed for my 1969 Sony Trinitron)

3. 7 vintage Auto tins including 3 unopened Oil cans - $15.00

Good days hunting there Robb, I like that TV, its got a great look and condition looks excellent. You must have a way cool tin collection now...

great new findings! however, i suggest prudence: definitely avoid celebration by opening the Ginger Beer Bottle and drink its content...

I have to keep the bottle away from people or esle they may drink it ! 

Not many sales on this weekend here in Toronto Canada, since it is long weekend (Canada day) but I did manage to find this 1976 RCA CA 097A
Black and white 9 inch TV. Nice red cabinet with UV Plexi screen.
I'll get some better pics of it once cleaned up.

Tv's are your new thing eh Robb? Hard to find anything colourful like these over here, I think the UK market stuff was mainly beige so I love seeing the pics of these!

 Boomboxes, TV's, motor oil cans, Petroliana, car stuff, anything that captures my interest. Old TV's like these are not easy to find ! Most were thrown away long ago !

They are also relatively cheap to buy or free !

Not much out there today but got these for $1.50

vintage tin
vintage TDK blank cassette (Made in Japan)
1986 Grand prix of Miami catalog

o major scores for this week. Did find a few items though.

- 3 blanks cassettes - 25 cents each
- 1968 Hot wheels Splittin image, nice shape, - 25 cents
- TDK SA90 blank cassette - 50 cents
- 2 LP records (sealed Heart), (RUN DMC in shrink) - $5.00
- Various vintage tins, some still full - $7.00

Nice Robb, some quality blanks and a seminal Run DMC album.

Another nice haul on the tins to. Im gonna keep asking till you post a huge pic of all ya tins to

Im gonna get better pics of all of them and post them on FlickR.... one day  

WHAT A SUPERLATIVE THREADfantastic is all this robb,loving nearly everything here-you really do pick up a vast range of goodies when your on the hunt

Thanks

July 12th 2014
Found a couple tins and a vintage 1972 Sony TFM-C480W Digimatic Alarm clock radio.

Lovely Sony Robb!

Hows about a pic of ur tins

I already sold the radio.. 

lol

Found this vintage Hawes Simplex cleaner tin.
I havent seen another one like it.
Maybe early 1950's ? It has a paper label.

1. Oscar Peterson - Carioca LP Record - Paid $2.00
(German pressing)

2. 1968 Can Am Toy Ltd Toronto Canada Catalogue $5.00

3. 1981 Panasonic RX-5110 Boombox - Paid $10.00

Here's a quick pic of where I store some stuff.
not everything is stored on there.

Found these pristine condition records and vintage tin at an estate sale today (on a friday), near my house.
The Marrs - Pump up the volume was a thrift shop buy.
Paid $10.00 for all.

Few more Lp's I found at a garage sale today

August 2nd 2014 finds
So i went into this weekend thinking there wasnt gonna be many sales out, since it is long weekend here in Canada (civic holiday)
I did manage to score a few things though (1 massive boombox) score.

1. Vinyl records - paid $2 each, (sealed Europe KP)
2. SONY c-90 cassettes - $0.25 cents each
3. Vintage tins and weedwacker twine - $3.00
4. JVC M-70 Boombox Ghettoblaster - $15.00 (worth $400-$500)
Cassette and radio work perfect. Few nics and scratches but nothing major.

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Woah Robb!!! A minty M70 for $15!!! The estate sale gods smiled on you today mate, a great score well done. Looks in great nick to. Unbelievable

Yup. It made my year !

You gotta get out early, and get into people garages and ask ask ask !

The JVC M70 was way back in the garage, not even for sale.

I asked if they would sell it, they said they used it alot when working inside the garage.

Initially they wanted $20, I offered $15.  

I always look for the older houses because more than likely, they will have vintage !

New houses suck for garage sales because they are younger people.

Time to go clean this box !! 

I wish we had garage sales here but alas we don't. We have car boot sales but its not often you find boxes

You got some great stuff there,and bargain prices .our boot sales are full of over priced rubbish : (   

Went to an old furniture store today . Closed down after 60 years. I like picking through junk. The guy gave me this 1979 plate for free because I was born in march 1979. Also got a 1992 consumers distributing catalog for free, worth $50 minimum. Im going to return next week because its too jammed in the back. Hes got all kinds of vintage automotive stuff!!

the consumers catalogue is very interesting,argos catalogues in the uk are worth a bomb now-pre 89 ones at least

Went to as estate sale today... prices were very high (near retail) on most things ! I did manage to find a couple toy cars for 25 cents each - Corgi Oldsmobile Toronado, 1974 Matchbox Laing Crane.
Also picked up a box of free records, nothing special though.

your pics arent appearing robb,but they sound interesting-all this stuff your getting you must live in a mansionyoull need it for the room youll be taking upits never good when you go in a second hand store and they are 'clued up' on pricing etc.here in the uk i used to get a lot of my old audio from the heart foundation thrift shops,but in the last month they have started doing ebay-so everything 20 years old and older,or looks old and interesting,automatically goes in there-was in a branch last week and saw 2 vintage portable record players and a way way cool grundig seperates hifi system,looked to date to about 1979/80 and looked really high end-i was ushered away from them before i even had chance to say 'ill buy these'one of my last shop contacts that have now bitten the ebay bug too-unbelievable

SAT AUGUST 9TH 2014

Couple finds today at garage sales

1. 3 records - mint, $1 each
2. 1970s oil can, unopened, $3.00

Went back to the Friday estate sale (10 minutes before they closed) and bought this 1985 Sony CDP-302 cd player Like new inbox, with remote and manual. It's as good as it gets without being brand new ! Doest look like it was used much ! I paid $25.00 for it. (worth $80.00+)

I also found this SHURE V15 III cartridge in box for $10.00 (worth $400)

pics:

You find some real gems at those estate sales Robb,the sony cd player looks fantastic 

August 14 2014
Just came back from an old store some people were clearing out.
They gave me these vintage catalogs for free.
Love the 1969 Westinghouse catalog ! 

just love those catalogues robb!these are part of our social history,are fascinating to see how we bought our products in the past;what they looked like and the prices we had to pay to get hold of them-wish i could bag some old catalogues myself as they will only appreciate in value as time goes on

Didnt find much this weekend, just a few sealed cassettes and a rare 3 stooges 45 record.

Here's what I found today (August 23) 2014

1. Vintage unopened automotive cans - $4.00
2. Sheila E Single - FREE
3. Vintage Zrnith Space command remote - $5.00

Finds for August 31st
Lotsa freebies this week !

1. Got many tins for free, only paid $1.00 for the Simoniz and Linseed oil tin
2. Jordan dn Lindros cards - FREE
3. 1986 Leafs and 1987 hockey sticker book - FREE
4. Vintage Sony Antenna - FREE
5. Records - Paid $1 each

Hendrix , The Who and a bit of creedance  for free cant be bad .

The CCR is an Italian pressing too  

Well, forund a couple nice scores, although not from garage sales but from a thrift shop.

1. 1976 Mighty Tonka Front Loader in mint shape ! $10

2. 1979 Fisher Price dump truck - $2.00 Made in USA

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SEPT 6 2014

Found these records at an estate sale for $1.50 each ! All in NM shape !!!
Most are orig pressings and the Beatles white album is english import with pics and poster.

Got this Majorette El Camino for a 25 cents

Wow very quality photos you take and like gems your finds ! I'm so jelly to you .... 

We must take quality photos, or else, what is the point ?

lol

jelly for finds .... What camera you use ? D

Fuji X20 silver

^ Nice, just picked up a Fuji X-E2, not even sure why I bother lugging around my dslr after using it. The image quality is amazing....