Found a nice late 1970's tonka pickup today as well as picked a pile of trash at the curb and found a vintage 1970's B/A outboard motor oil jug and a sealed oil filter.

cleaned up

Found these records at an estate sale today.. some are worth some good money and I found my first bluenote label too !

Found these in mint shape today at Value Village.
2 German pressings and 1 canadian.

I had a great day today at the thrift shops.
Found all these records, mint in shrinkwrap still.
Also found a couple nice 45's 7" singles and a very rare Beatles cassette.
Never seen this one before. Anyone know its value ? cant find any info

This weeks finds:

Records were $1-$2 each
1986 Tonka Van was $2.99

Sundays finds.. got real lucky with these ! :mrgreen:
Mid 1960's Tonka Plow tow Jeep ! (missing rear wench) ALL ORIGINAL MINT !
Rolling Stones single

Got the record for free.
The cassettes are from the thrift shop.

Robb I really like your findings and your additions

plus your hi resolution pics are of

fantastic quality, i admire them

and i regularly check them but

this topic it takes eons to open or

my computer is really slow

H

Found 2 VERY rare psychedelic rock at thrift store today.. $$$$$

todays finds

1. 1970's made in Japan tiny metal dump, made for zellers
2. Two sealed cd's and rare double UK import cd

Feb. 13 2015 estate sale finds
Paid $40 for all

Sealed Linda Ronstadt LP
Dinky Leyland Octopus ESSO tanker truck
Matchbox Mustang and hot wheels custom eldorado
Fuji Sealed blank cassettes
Planet Freestyle CD
Mobil oil can
1972 Tonka 2534 T6 Dozer

Todays buys
1975 War - why cant we be friends LP
1969 Mini-Marx Super Hi-Way Set Sealed
1983-1988 Mighty Tonka 3931 Backhoe

Nice clean RQ-711S you got there.
But you are missing the erase plug.

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lots more great finds robb-always a pleasure to see

Scored these 2 vintage Tonkas today at Value Village

Both are near mint

1977 2465 Dump

1976 Tonka 1099 Crane (rare)

Oh

too bad

I have some of those shortening plugs for erasing the tape by re-recording the tape through the recorder again with this jack plugged into the mic input so nothing is recorded onto the tape.  Where they are I don't remember but I have seen them

tonkas take me back,i had lots in the 80s as a kid,and seeing these fills me with nostalgia robb-glad your saving them for posterity

Found these 2 toys today
- 1983 Hot wheels Good Humor Truck
- Unknown make Army Van

Bought these this weekend:

1. Platinum Blonde first LP
2. The Spoons - Tell No Lies EP

the finds just keep on coming.....wow

Despite being woefully off-topic, this is one of my favourite threads by far.  Keep up the excellent work.

Platnum Blonde was the first tape I ever played on my neighbours M90!

These two LP's are keepers Robb!

Classic 80's minted in vinyl!

Few finds from today:

- Genesis Invisible Touch LP Mint
- 1970's Zellers Metal Dump truck - Made in Japan - New in Box
- Vintage Keystone Penetrating Oil tin

Some finds today from an estate sale.
- paid $1 per toy car, some nice hot wheels redlines included
- vintage tin paper label 25 cents

Todays finds:

- some 7" records - paid $1 each
- 3 vintage Tin cans - $1.50
- early 1970s filter queen vacuum - $10
(comes with attachments, filters, and carpet hose and attachment (not pictured)

A good haul Robb...except for the vacuum. My mother in law has the same one

loved the toy cars robb,i got some unopened late 70s/early 80s ones today,instant blast back to my childhood

Todays finds

- vintage oil treatment can
- cranberries cassette and rush cd
- Jesse Winchester first LP

- 1986-87 Tonka 1887 Loader (Part of the 2024 construction set)

Finds for March 14 2015

Found some stuff for free.

- Sony WM-F65 Walkman
- Vintage Brother typewriter
- 1955 Pepsi Cola bottles
- 1976 Tonka truck
- Vintage CAA decals
- Vintage Esso Grease can
- Vintage diecast toy racecars (made in Hong Kong)

Also found these items:

- 2 records
- vintage blank cassettes
- early 80's Tonka Vector Van clutchpopper friction toy

Some good finds this weekend. 8)

Couple 1950's Japanese tin friction toys

Love this one !

Found all this at 1 garage sale today
Records are all Near mint

WOW, Robb 

Killa found you had. 

Went to a couple estate sales today and found some stuff.
The Hubley Real Types toy cars are very rare !

A Romeo Veloce

Couple more finds today

This weeks finds
Surprising but the italian cassettes are selling from $30-$40 on discogs.com !

Found some stuff this week from oil can, to toys, to records, to a 3 head cassette deck.
Here's pics

Quaker state oil can full

Unknown Toy Truck made in Japan.. i think it is a Marx ?

1960's Siku German Citroen diecast toy car (very rare worth good money)

Cassettes - Paid 25 cents each for the sealed and $1 for the msytery walk

Really nice Sony TC-K71 3-head cassette deck - paid $5.. works perfect

Alot of records - paid 50 cents to 1 dollar for each - all mint

Few more buys today

I paid $5 for the hot wheels redlines, blanks cassettes, Toy racecar and Hockey card.

I paid $20 for the 2 records from a local record show today.

This weeks finds:
- records, cassettes, toy cars, nintendo video games, Zapper gun, maple leafs book

Whoa Rob! You find the best!

Records and tapes; you can never have enough of them.

A lot of the rest? What do you do with this stuff? Resell it?

You seem like you can't stop collecting!

This weeks finds and buys

- Lil Suzy CD - $2
- 2 Blank TDK cassettes - $1
- NOS Technics headshell - $5
- Two toy cars - $2.75
- LP Records - $1 each (sealed Rush Presto bought on ebay)
- Vintage 1970's sport fun skateboard - $8

Sunday May 3rd finds:

- Sansui TR-707a receiver $10
- Comic book - FREE
- Records, paid $20 - Most Beatles records are late 1970's reissues.
- Tins and cans - 25 cents each
- 1980's Tonka dozer - $5

May 9 2015 finds

Nintendo game - $4
Two records - $1 each
CD's - FREE
Rush CD - $3
Cassettes mostly heavy metal - $1 each
1980s Tonka mini Jeep - $1
1940'S Shell Shelltox insect bug sprayer gun - $5

I have not seen this ( insect bug sprayer gun ) style in a very long time - the One I remember was not this brand - but I do remember this distinct shape  

May 16 2015 finds so far

Some more garage sale finds today

- sealed cassettes - free
- Vintage 1950s Britannia tube repair tin - 25 cents
- Adobe Photoshops - free
- Love in CD - $1
- Records - $1 each

- Vintage race car tool kit $1 - Made in Japan (coolest find)