I would like to express heartfelt gratitude for all the interest, participation and subscribers generated by the first video of this series. Your support serves as encouragement which will lead to more and higher quality videos of this nature. In case anyone noticed, the old army shirt I am wearing belonged to my grandfather, who is one of the main reasons I became interested in military history and collecting. It was one of the many items he kept from World War II. A series on those items will be produced.
THE COWBOY ANS INDIANS YOU HAD LAYING FLAT ARE CAKE TOPPERS.SOME OF THE ARE COPIES OF CEREALS BOX TOP BUYS.SEND IN TWO OR MORE BOX TOPS AND OND DOLLAR WOULD GET YOU SOME GOOD TOYS.MY BROTHERS AND I DID THIS A LOT OF TIME,NO INTERNET IN THE 50S AND 60S.GOOD VIDEO,MADE ME THINK OF SOME GOOD TIMES.GOD BLESS
The jeep at 11:54 is an Andy Gard Rat Patrol Jeep missing some accessories. Andy Gard is an obscure company that made toys. In the 1960s, Andy Gard began producing army vehicles and toy soldiers that where mostly knockoffs of MPCs army vehicles but the Andy Gard ones had metal axels, more detail on the treads, and where about 95% smaller. There were 6 main vehicles, 3 had wheels and 3 had treads. The Andy Gard Wheeled Vehicles Are: The Andy Gard Rat Patrol Jeep (An Original Design), the Army Truck (Clone Of The MPC Design), and the Army Ambulance, which was an original Andy Gard design but was reused from a old Andy Gard Police Playset, just the army ambulance was green and had a Red Cross. The Treaded Vehicles Are: The Weasel (Clone Of MPC Design), the Swivel-Turret Tank (Clone Of MPC Design), and the Armored Personnel Carrier which has an interesting story. The Andy Gard Armored Personnel Carrier was clearly copied off the MPC Armored Personnel Carrier but had some differences, it didn’t have a machine gun, had no opening door behind it, and had studs on the inside where included Andy Gard drivers would be able to sit on. There where 2 types of Andy Gard Drivers, one with no studs, and one with the studs. Andy Gard also produced an original cannon to go with the vehicles too. There where 3 giant special army vehicles produced by Andy Gard too. They where the Andy Gard Army Field Retriever, the Andy Gard Rescue Helicopter, and the Missile Launcher Truck. All of which I own as well as some old catalogs. Andy Gard also produced a special variant of the Rat Patrol Jeep that had a missile launcher on the back instead of the Heavy Tripod Machine Gun. On my 20 years as an eBay member, I have never seen one come up. I see you have it and I would love to give you an offer for it. And if your interested in seeing the catalogs and some pictures of the Andy Gard vehicles, I’d love to show you.
have you ever come accross a cheap plastic made in hong kong ford gpa amphibean ww2 jeep? i have one from my childhood from the eighties, but never saw another one of those
Good video of MPC toy products I have this box set but in better shape then the one shown here. MPC copied Peco figures in the 50's made them smaller and cheaper then what Peco was priced at that time which was 29 cents a piece. The accessories idea was new then but children had a penchant for losing them so they ended up with just the ring hand soldiers.
@@CollectorChronicles that'd be nice, whenever you feel like it...different model and size comparison would be informative...yes, auburn is nice...thanks!
I think you’re wrong on that tank you called a motorized gun. Turrets that went 360’ were tanks. Gun carriers turrets didn’t. Most didn’t have machine guns. Check me on that.
It’s likely a fictitious vehicle but you’re right there is a distinction. There are modern self propelled howitzers with revolving turrets however. Admittedly I think in terms of World War 2 German terminology, for example an assault gun versus a self propelled gun. Assault gun crews wore field grey panzer uniforms and were panzer soldiers but armor with revolving turrets strictly had crews that (officially) wore black panzer uniforms. Self propelled gun crews wore standard military uniforms as though they were manning a field piece. Obviously no one cares about any of this but me and this is often an evolving subject.
Basically I didn’t view that vehicle as a “tank” because the turret is set so far back and the artillery piece has a barrel oriented similar to long range artillery like a self propelled gun.
I would like to express heartfelt gratitude for all the interest, participation and subscribers generated by the first video of this series. Your support serves as encouragement which will lead to more and higher quality videos of this nature. In case anyone noticed, the old army shirt I am wearing belonged to my grandfather, who is one of the main reasons I became interested in military history and collecting. It was one of the many items he kept from World War II. A series on those items will be produced.
THE COWBOY ANS INDIANS YOU HAD LAYING FLAT ARE CAKE TOPPERS.SOME OF THE ARE COPIES OF CEREALS BOX TOP BUYS.SEND IN TWO OR MORE BOX TOPS AND OND DOLLAR WOULD GET YOU SOME GOOD TOYS.MY BROTHERS AND I DID THIS A LOT OF TIME,NO INTERNET IN THE 50S AND 60S.GOOD VIDEO,MADE ME THINK OF SOME GOOD TIMES.GOD BLESS
Very interesting, thanks for the identification! I thought they looked a bit unusual. Cereal premiums are a whole field unto themselves.
Very cool 😎
Thanks buddy! ☺️
How awesome, I collect toy armies too! I thought I was unusual for being an adult into collecting soldiers, until I had a YT channel!!!!
The skinny army men were from a mail order in the back of 60 and early 70 comic books
The jeep at 11:54 is an Andy Gard Rat Patrol Jeep missing some accessories. Andy Gard is an obscure company that made toys. In the 1960s, Andy Gard began producing army vehicles and toy soldiers that where mostly knockoffs of MPCs army vehicles but the Andy Gard ones had metal axels, more detail on the treads, and where about 95% smaller. There were 6 main vehicles, 3 had wheels and 3 had treads. The Andy Gard Wheeled Vehicles Are: The Andy Gard Rat Patrol Jeep (An Original Design), the Army Truck (Clone Of The MPC Design), and the Army Ambulance, which was an original Andy Gard design but was reused from a old Andy Gard Police Playset, just the army ambulance was green and had a Red Cross. The Treaded Vehicles Are: The Weasel (Clone Of MPC Design), the Swivel-Turret Tank (Clone Of MPC Design), and the Armored Personnel Carrier which has an interesting story. The Andy Gard Armored Personnel Carrier was clearly copied off the MPC Armored Personnel Carrier but had some differences, it didn’t have a machine gun, had no opening door behind it, and had studs on the inside where included Andy Gard drivers would be able to sit on. There where 2 types of Andy Gard Drivers, one with no studs, and one with the studs. Andy Gard also produced an original cannon to go with the vehicles too. There where 3 giant special army vehicles produced by Andy Gard too. They where the Andy Gard Army Field Retriever, the Andy Gard Rescue Helicopter, and the Missile Launcher Truck. All of which I own as well as some old catalogs. Andy Gard also produced a special variant of the Rat Patrol Jeep that had a missile launcher on the back instead of the Heavy Tripod Machine Gun. On my 20 years as an eBay member, I have never seen one come up. I see you have it and I would love to give you an offer for it. And if your interested in seeing the catalogs and some pictures of the Andy Gard vehicles, I’d love to show you.
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Thanks for stopping by!
have you ever come accross a cheap plastic made in hong kong ford gpa amphibean ww2 jeep? i have one from my childhood from the eighties, but never saw another one of those
Good video of MPC toy products I have this box set but in better shape then the one shown here. MPC copied Peco figures in the 50's made them smaller and cheaper then what Peco was priced at that time which was 29 cents a piece. The accessories idea was new then but children had a penchant for losing them so they ended up with just the ring hand soldiers.
do you take requests for videos? i would like to see a comparson of all the different models of military jeep toys
I could probably do that. My uncle has the jeeps I don’t. One of my favorite ones is the model with the driver molded in. I think it’s Auburn.
@@CollectorChronicles that'd be nice, whenever you feel like it...different model and size comparison would be informative...yes, auburn is nice...thanks!
I think you’re wrong on that tank you called a motorized gun. Turrets that went 360’ were tanks. Gun carriers turrets didn’t. Most didn’t have machine guns. Check me on that.
It’s likely a fictitious vehicle but you’re right there is a distinction. There are modern self propelled howitzers with revolving turrets however. Admittedly I think in terms of World War 2 German terminology, for example an assault gun versus a self propelled gun. Assault gun crews wore field grey panzer uniforms and were panzer soldiers but armor with revolving turrets strictly had crews that (officially) wore black panzer uniforms. Self propelled gun crews wore standard military uniforms as though they were manning a field piece. Obviously no one cares about any of this but me and this is often an evolving subject.
Basically I didn’t view that vehicle as a “tank” because the turret is set so far back and the artillery piece has a barrel oriented similar to long range artillery like a self propelled gun.
@@CollectorChronicles Thanks for the information.
@@tomheringer No problem, thanks for stopping by! 🫡
I have the army car but metal
Please can you send this to me
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