70s Kenner SSP Smash Up Derby Set Funny Ads

[RVBOY2]

I had this too. I was so rough on my toys however I stripped the pull cord in the first week :(

[Hot80s]

I got em as a 8 yr old. Lots of fun esp getting flying parts in your eyes.

[FargenDog]

I had a set and we used the ramps with our Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars long after the Smash Up Derby cars and parts were lost....

[greggv8]

Love that redneck-speak, "Comes with everything you see rat-cheer."

[GreatNorthWeb]

comes with everthang you see rot-chair.

[Adam19822000]

I fucking had this, came from my uncle

[mrkitt2000300070]

oh man thanks for the wonderful memorys it reminds me when i had my set when i was a kid i loved it. now iam 41 and my kids dont have nothing that even compares to the quality they had back then

[FiendsInRedSatin1]

I had an SSP but one of the non-smash up variety. It was way cool, and it was practically indestructible (and that's saying a lot for a toy).

[horsefinger]

i had this when i was a kid now a days they would call it a choking hazzard gimmee a break

[Capt777harris]

Buddy of mine had this.

[garrisonskunk]

Didn't they have a "Dukes of Hazzard" version of this with the General Lee and Rosco's police car ?

[MrCraigsadams]

@garrisonskunk I have never seen a set like that but that would be cool.

[056716]

I had that growing up just like rockin sockin robots

[056716]

I had that growing up

[wsbtam]

PLEASE somebody bring this toy back!!!

Have it "Come with ev'ry thing ya see right c'here!" LOL 

[theknightlynews]

I had this. Loved it. Crash, bang, smash'em up. Smash up derby is fun. And no, no parts entered my mouth. It wasn't for little kids, it was for older kids. Today, because of the lawyers and the nanny state, toys have to be made idiot-proof, which means they must be appropriate for the lowest common denominator. The gradual dumbing down of each successive generation.

[hideawaycottage]

I wonder how many rednecks choked on the small parts :-D

[Philflash]

Loved this toy!

[homiex04]

wonder how long before peices came up missing

[ltrich50]

"Comes with ya see right 'chere"....ah, when redneck was cool.

[Demonizer68]

MY Dad has some of these at my Granmothers! They still work even though they're missing parts.

[platefullofbacon]

That brings back memories.. I had a set of them too!

[MaxiumOverdrive789]

MY DAD HAS THESE AT HIS MOMS HOUSE

[BeachBum2OO7]

greatest toy of all time, I will never forget the 'whizzzzzz' from pulling that cord thingy, and the teeth were almost worn out. The baseboards and my sisters toys sure did suffer by this toy. Though the one I had had a pickup truck and a VW bug. Who else put the ramps in tandem and did the double jumps lol

[apatheticempathy]

@Mrbriggsboy

what a stupid comment !

tiimeless toy ! although they never did hit each other mid air on the ramp !

I wonder how many takes it took to actually make/time that commercial

collision ?!

[wvcoartney]

No, evidently we just gave birth to some. Nice language.

[annoyingfeatures]

protest to jasmin toys (they make smash up derby now) to remake smash up derby like it used to be and not with suvs like they do now

[restodan]

My older brother had one, I remember it had the 57 ford, but I believe the other car was a 56 chevy sedan. The base boards in that old house will never be the same, we played with them abunch and I never will forget how neat it was when our cars would actually colide with one another and not miss...

[snower5554]

wtf why dont we have toys like this anymore?

[atrax70]

@snower5554 small parts that kids want too swallow and lazy uncreative toy companies.

[eimb1999]

@snower5554 ....

Probably vbecause some idiot liberal lawyer or feminist group would claim that it doesn't promote racial tolerance or something.

[moras4]

@snower5554 becouse little kid would eat those "stuff" what comes off when those cars mash each others.

[BurtonBoardsRule365]

@snower5554 they did for a while in around 2002-2005 called crash test dummies i think haha

[Drake14161337]

ad S?

[Plhamel]

I had one. Got it for my 8th birthday in the early '70s, but it was not one of the Smash Up cars.

Instead I smashed up my Corgi and Dinky collection. Ten years later when I realized how much those toys would have been worth, I was furious with myself. But I had a good time.

[nick2ny]

Kids are meant to play with stuff.

[123demaio]

my favorite toy in third grade. easy to loose the parts though i tied fishing wire to mine

[omertia]

I had one...I had the volkswagon "buggum" and the truck....cmon little buggum, you can get it done - smash bang crashem' up...smash up derby is fun! and it was too.

[mhirtes12]

Oh man. A toy that DELIBERATELY broke up into small pieces! Imagine that.

I had this as a kid. Thank God I grew up in a time before the killjoys came along and spoiled everything. Kids today are getting SCREWED!

[gjc82071]

@mhirtes12 1 word. "Jarts" (lawn darts, remember'em?) "Smash up derby set" would be recalled today, due to small parts/choking hazard. I don't mean to sound (or maybe I do?) cold/un-compassionate over choking/child death, but IMO, 60-80's toys, with their lead based paint & small parts, where sort'a like "natural selection" @ work. Too dumb to play with a toy? (without getting killed) The real world is less forgiving than a lawn dart my friends! LOL. I'm only joking (to a degree)

[azzaz691]

@mhirtes12 thank you sadly im 12 so my toy toys fucking suck!!!! i hate the loosers who came up with em but i have my vid games

[cyberzonie]

I had these.

The toys in the 70's were so creative.

It was a great time to play with these things unlike the over CRAP that they sell us today.

[corpsvalue]

Loved these!!!!

[Varrichio1964]

I had a set in 1973 ,and it whas great fun to play,it a shame you don't find then anymore in Belguim.

[apatheticempathy]

I collect these RARE vintage toys. I have some for sale, contact me at:

ert113 @ hotmail. com

Just take out spaces above

[desertlonghair]

I still have mine! And it STILL works ... along with my SSP 3-In-One set !

[vwmicrosizer]

my dad was poor also. he was around 13 when these came out he said he would play with them with his little brothers when he was watching them. im go n to buy 1 on ebay

[bmovies60]

I remember this commercial airing when I was a little kid in the 1970s. Damn, but I wanted this toy. My family was dirt poor and we couldnt afford store bought toys advertised on tv like this one. My toy collection pretty much consisted of mis-matched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends, or found in the streets somewhere, etc. Toy commercials, like this one (and being a big watcher of tv, I saw thousands of them), only served to torture me.

[strumpeteer]

If there's anything a boy growing up wants to do, it's destroying stuff. Hell yeah!

[jrg8008]

Had it - was fun for about 5 minutes.

[picturethief]

I said the same about your Mom.

[hamtrak]

Ahhh....the good old days!

[JackStraw65]

I also remember some of these cars had names: "Bug 'em" (VW) goin' against "Tough Tom" (pick-up). The jingle went:

SSP Smash up Derby Set...it's Bug 'em goin' against Tough Tom who hasn't been beaten yet...C'mon little Bug 'em, you can get it done...crash, bang, smash 'em up, Smash Up Derby is fun..."

[UglySean]

Alternate short commercial. How about the long one?

He's a drivin' his old junker

And he's lookin' for a wreck

He'll smash a car, he'll smash a truck

Or anything by heck!

[jonedc]

nice red neck toy