MARX TOYS 1960

[visor109]

The front of it looks like a '68 Goat.

[MrYaesu840]

THE KID WAS GREEN BEFORE GREEN WAS COOL...

[philo426]

Even the kids who were test-driving it look too big to fit!I bet that the kids outgrew this one quickly but it does look like a '68 Firbird!

[AmericanStandardFan1]

Dear Santa...

[Simon5005]

When I was a kid then, we couldn't afford this............even as our family car!

[antlantis7]

hehe thats cool! I want a time machine!

[650bigal]

Haha, love the disclaimer..."battery not included" Also notice that it was way slower than the pedal trike.

[feckingbillgates]

Why are the comments for this video riddled with xenophobia?

[visor109]

What's that under the hood? A Tri-Power?

[jca42083]

they make crap cars like this now they are called toyotas

[olddude521]

Does anyone remember the name of that huge 4 foot plastic dragon Ideal Toys put out at Christmas one year in the early 60's? It took about 5 d bateeries to run. You filled the dragon's mouth with marbles, turned him on, and he walked towards you spitting marbles. You could stop him by taking the dart gun that was included and hitting him squarely in the round target at the end of his tail. I'm not dreaming this! I grew up with a kid who actually got one at Christmas, and we played with it.

[girlstorm09]

wow i didnt know they had "power wheels" back then! interesting i wonder how people said how they had pedal cars as far as the 80s then...

[clintonearlwalker]

@girlstorm09 I don't ever remember ANY kid having one of these things. They were probably super expensive at the time and parents in the 1960's seldom bought super expensive toys for their kids. We all had nice bicycles, pedal cars, scooters, even honda 70's and mini bikes, but I don't ever remember seeing or even hearing about these things.

[olddude521]

@clintonearlwalker These are what I referred to as the Christmas Toys. Back then, all the major toy makers at Christmas time put out these oversized, waaaay to expensive for the average kid toys in hopes of making a Christmas killing on them(i.e.Remco's five foot aircraft carrieer that took 6 D sized batteries just so it could move across your living room rug.) After Christmas, you never saw them again. And you never see them today, either, because they were made in such limited numbers.

[clintonearlwalker]

@olddude521 I want a 5 foot Remco aircraft carrier!! I never even heard of one of those.  I used to build aircraft carriers out of Lego blocks. My dad got me the 1047 piece set for Christmas one year, it was the biggest and best set then. I still have them. Thanx for the info. P.S. I loved my Vertibird too but it broke :(

[EvanQuinn07]

@clintonearlwalker no, I don't either.....man, those were some good times, things started to go bad when the negroes started to infest our neighborhood though

[clintonearlwalker]

@EvanQuinn07 Interesting, we never really did have negros infesting our neighborhood. When I went to high school there were 2 towns across the Potomac river from each other. Nearly all the black people lived on one side and nearly all white people on the other. In high school there was 1 black kid, I won't use his name. When my mom was in the same high school, his dad was the only black kid. It's pretty much still that way today.

[EvanQuinn07]

@clintonearlwalker well; you were/are lucky then, unfortunately our old neighborhood didn't start out that way, towards the end though, negroes started to creep in, nothing but trouble from then on.....bikes stolen, and other chronic theft, fights after school and even intimidation on the bus, 'cause at least 50-70% of the school bus was negroe by then....my poor sister was scared to death of them, the negroes would ride up and down the street, and if we were out, they'd hassle us and her....

[clintonearlwalker]

@EvanQuinn07 That's a shame. We live in the hills of Western Maryland, my sister and her husband moved to Baltimore with many black people, they have a son that's 4. Last Sunday they called here and said they were grilling outside. They called back later and said when they were eating a little black kid was riding down the street on their sons bike. They caught the kid and got the bike, said they don't even call the cops anymore cuz they won't come out.

[EvanQuinn07]

@clintonearlwalker she wanted nothing to do with them,..you couldn't do anything in the front yard, the negroes would just hang around in the street in front of your house, caught 'em a couple times at night trying to look through the windows, call the cops, most of the time it be negroe cops, and they'd be gone...it was Really Terrrible

[clintonearlwalker]

@EvanQuinn07 Yeah, the sounds terrible and it's a shame. I thank God I don't have to live like that, at least right now. I know what it's like in Baltimore, I did 3 years in prison there, nearly 95% of the other inmates were black, and they were pretty nasty.

[EvanQuinn07]

@clintonearlwalker Well that was "back in the old neighborhood" we've grown up and been out of that for along time, but yea, it Sucked...the negroes were/are like Predators ...as for B-more...Man that's a freakin' negroe nest.....on the par with detroit or oakland....Funny how Wherever large population of negroes are, the place is drug-ridden and dangerous as hell

[clintonearlwalker]

@EvanQuinn07 Oh, yeah B-more is definitely negro nest. I worked for a while as a roofer in Anacostia VA. The first day on the roof, our crew was about 9 white guys, everyone else for as far as you could see (miles) was black. I was scared as hell to be in there. I drove a trailer truck into Detroit one night. When I stopped the first thing anyone said to me was "has anyone tried to murder you yet'?

[EvanQuinn07]

@clintonearlwalker you're lucky you didn't get shanked in detroit

[clintonearlwalker]

@EvanQuinn07 I was lucky I didn't get shanked in a lot of places, that's one of the reasons I quit driving truck, that job was super dangerous, I seen a wreck almost everyday where the driver was killed. Very nasty job. I was only in Detroit for a few hours, the roads through town were the absolute worst I seen, beat me to death. Once I got out of town the next morning though I hit some interstate south, the sun came out, and it was smooth sailing from there.

[saintwinky29]

Imagine a fat child driving one! It wouldnt go very fast! Lol

[monkeeman1966]

How lousy that was not to include the battery. Even a new Power Wheel comes with one.

[clawdfrawg]

@monkeeman1966 those are dry cells, harder to do with vented lead-acid batteries.

[Horseshowchamp]

And people wonder why I wish I was born back than lol

[YouTumult]

That's the kind of car we're supposed to drive in 20 years. lol

[Sheri451]

I had a car that you peddled. I guess the commercial here was like a Power Wheels I bought my nephew james one of those Power Wheels when he was two. The damn thing was broken from day one. I treied calling the company from the day after Christmas until Feb or march, they kept their phones off the hook. I spent 250 dollars on that bum car.

[monkeeman1966]

@Sheri451 My son got a Power Wheels Mustang for Christmas four years ago. It still goes good. You just got a lemon...sorry.

[Sheri451]

@monkeeman1966 It's gearbox was broken. The paper that came with it said to not take it back to the store I purchased it from. Like I said, I tried calling the manufacturers and they kept their phones off the hook for three months. I had ordered the car through the Sears Wish Book. As I said the think cost $ 250 dollars. He loved it, but he only rode it for one day.

[monkeeman1966]

@Sheri451 yep, $260 was what i paid at the evil empire--Walmart. Santa gave it to him.. lol

[ftsjr]

I wonder how much, "in mint condition," this would be worth today?

[jengacrock]

I bought mine brand new 1965 and still drive it to work every day! Reliable and sporty it's a chick magnet for sure. Only have 3 more payments left and it's all mine.

[dmc081]

i would buy this it's cute

[luckyvet]

*raises hand* "I want one"

[barmtrail]

These cars must not have been available in southern california. Too slow anyway. Black kid' were never in commercials when i was a kid. But we did have the. "JACKSON 5" thank god. Between the osmonds and the J5 would would you choose? I chose the J5 and my little white friends hated me!!...lol. I said too bad, there is no way i am choosing ,"PUPPY LOVE" over, "ABC". are you kidding me?!

Well they kicked me out of our clubhouse and i opened my bedroom window and cranked up the motown!!!!!!!!!!

[karellison]

I was born in 1962, and I distinctly recall this commercial as a tot and being green with envy wanting one. The neighbors kid had one, and I recall it took a LOT of D-cell batteries. Lots.

[143AC]

Claude Kirchner..then the host of WOR TV Ch.9 NYC's

Merrytoones Circus,Super Adventure Theater and NBC TV's

Marx Magic Midway is the off camera announcer.

[ftsjr]

I always LOVED Marx toys!

[bq552]

i've noticed that in all these old commercials... there is not a single black person

[MikeyMcCrashCap]

And that's wrong?

[bq552]

I assure you that's not a complaint.

[rockyPants4000]

Thank God for that transparent windshield, or it would be uncontrollable.

[deathbringer1515]

i know right? without that transparent windshield, i wouldnt be able to see up from down D:

[SHMUJEW]

no wonder communism failed ...look at the crap Marx made

[tbear4pa]

That's 1960's with an ""S""(maybe about 1965 or so), because the kiddie pedal cars, along with real cars(which still had fins) that were made in 1960 still had a 50's look.

[suprjeff]

why do they always use kids with oversized heads in toy commercials?

[kirkmach32]

Umm, it's biology, genius. All kids have heads that are a little bigger relative to their bodies, than when they are older. Check out your own kid pictures.  I bet you have a planet-sized head in them.

[suprjeff]

so you are saying thats normal, you must have rode the short bus,so when you were born you had an adult sized head.

[store275]

@kirkmach32

lol !!!

[gopconservative94]

if there was a black kid he would car jack it

[mynameisyamada]

Hahahahaha!!!

[KatellaGate]

Batteries not included: I'd hate to think how many "D" cells this toy took, and how long they'd last.

[GatewayGhettoProd]

Hmmm, kinda has a Pontiac front end...maybe GTO inspired?

[BaphometKnows]

Not in 1960

[GatewayGhettoProd]

Hmmm, but I wonder...is it REALLY from 1960? Two things:

1. Color TV commercials were relatively rare before 1966.

2. The styling of this thing is years ahead of Detroit if this is indeed from 1960. I think it's unlikely...I'd say this is from around '68...

[327caprice]

GatewayGhettoProd, Wonder no more! you're correct it is indeed from 1968 and the car is an adaptation of a Pontiac Firebird.

[lklklklklklk44444]

We've waited 40 years for Detroit to put out a decent ADULT electric car. I'm not surprised that the toy makers were aqhead of American car makers.

[GatewayGhettoProd]

Ha! See 327caprice's answer below! Told ya so!