Metal Masters Co. Vehicles

great stuff Steve. I thought I had one, but just Tootsietoy,Irwin, and maybe some others.

Steamer posted:

great stuff Steve. I thought I had one, but just Tootsietoy,Irwin, and maybe some others.

These are a bit bigger than Tootsie.

Steve

I went to an estate sale last summer. Guy had a ton of cars and trucks. I managed to get one box, and some of them were bigger than the Tootsietoys I have, but not Metal Masters.

Thanks for posting the photos Steve.  I have been on ebay looking at what is available and I think you have an example of all that Metal Masters produced.

These are the examples I posted in the Weekend Tinplate thread last week.

Here are the rest of the cars marked  Metal Masters that I played with as a child. They were passed down to me from my brother who is 10 years older.

Two trucks

Two of the roadsters

In the box of cars I played with were two other cars that were not marked and they don't look like Metal Masters.  Can anyone identify them?  I think both of them were repainted at some point in their lives.  There is evidence of red paint when you turn them over.

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These are incredibly durable toys.  I can't tell you the number of times the were crashed into each other.  

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

I just bought a rough woody wagon. No rear door and this one may get repainted. Clockwork does not work either but  I only want it for display. I’ll update when I get my hands on it.

Steve

I have found some reasonably priced new manufacture from Armindo Morieres Lopes in Spain. Sturdy and nicely painted, they probably could use a little playing with to "weather" them before being displayed with prewar trains.

They make a bunch of trucks and trolleys too. 

and they are the "mystery" manufacturer of all those trolleys you see for sale on eBay so often. 

PS.  I contacted the vendor offering this set of four trolleys and told him who made these trolleys and when and how much they typically sell for but he continues to list them a $325 for the set of four. Still trying to get him to buy some of mine at those prices.  

For the Jeep, I have to amend my comments, I saw one in orange. Looks original.

Steve

I switched to similar old toy cars from scale vehicles for my layout a few years ago due to switching over to old toy trains from more "realistic" postwar plastic trains. I have a small collection of Midgetoy and Tootsie Toy cars and trucks, several of which are like ones I had as a kid.

Still have my collection of Midgetoy trains from back then, mid '60's to early '70's.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Thanks for posting the photos Steve.  I have been on ebay looking at what is available and I think you have an example of all that Metal Masters produced.

These are the examples I posted in the Weekend Tinplate thread last week.

Here are the rest of the cars marked  Metal Masters that I played with as a child. They were passed down to me from my brother who is 10 years older.

Two trucks

Two of the roadsters

In the box of cars I played with were two other cars that were not marked and they don't look like Metal Masters.  Can anyone identify them?  I think both of them were repainted at some point in their lives.  There is evidence of red paint when you turn them over.

#1

#2

These are incredibly durable toys.  I can't tell you the number of times the were crashed into each other.  

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg,

your Cadillac looks like a Tootsie toy, I think I had/have one like it.

I know it's heresy, but I've repainted a few of the more common Tootsietoys:

If repaints are heresy, what about rolling yer own fake toy cars? 

Got the Metal Masters woody yesterday. Here’s some pictures for a size comparison. I’ve yet to see one with a rear door.

Steve

that's cause you gotta rip it off to cram more stuff in it! Just like the Matchbox Dodge dump trucks...I have several, and none had the bed, because my Daddy the truck driver drove a tractor trailer, and I'm a life long mopar guy, so the first thing I did as a kid was rip the bed off. I came to my senses several years ago and got several complete trucks, except for the  Superfast example.

spotted this one at a local antique mall. They are asking $27 for it, if anyone wants it, I could pick it up.

If you keep poking around in the boxes that you have under your layout you never know what you will find.  

While I discovered the first batch of Metal Masters cars that I posted at the home of a relative (Its still a mystery how they ended up there.), I still had these in my possession. The green truck is a repaint and that lovely shimmery magenta roadster may have been painted with nail polish.

And here is the entire collection of Metal Masters from my childhood.  

Only 2 styles, but they provided a lot of fun.  With Steve's catalog of styles and colors above I might just have to go looking for a few examples of the other body styles.  Just for examples of course.  

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

I recognize several of those from my childhood, the red fire engine, for example, but have not before seen the red buses, or the Auburns.  Still have a couple of Tootsietoys, but nohing else.

I've not seen those at all...maybe the Auburns..?

  My oldest cast is likely an early version of a Ralstoys, Benkins Moving Co. semi-trailer in need of a truck cab to pull it.

Any Auburns I have are the rubber cars made by Auburn Rubber.  I really liked the old Auburn Rubber toys and figures (made some train crew figures too, cheap on da bay to boot..not sure on the size, but others are 1:32 or maybe 1:43?)

Steamer posted:

that's cause you gotta rip it off to cram more stuff in it! Just like the Matchbox Dodge dump trucks...I have several, and none had the bed, because my Daddy the truck driver drove a tractor trailer, and I'm a life long mopar guy, so the first thing I did as a kid was rip the bed off. I came to my senses several years ago and got several complete trucks, except for the  Superfast example.

 

Another life long Mopar guy here. I have never seen that truck before it’s really cool. Where did you get it and who made it? 

Phil it is made by M2 Machines, it was under $20 at Walmart, and came with a '66 Charger. They have a pretty good line of other trucks, and cars mostly '50s and '60s stuff with really nice details.