Enter toy fans and collectors like those in these videos, which show how to restore Tonka trucks. It's both fascinating and therapeutic to see the transformation. While there are countless examples of ...

Youngsters toddling around their back yards in the ’50s hadn’t a clue that the $5 toy trucks they played with would one day become collectibles, highly prized by grown men. But that is precisely the ...

Sometimes bigger is better, and there's nothing that's better when it's bigger than automotive toys. Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars were definitely cool, but with a heavy hand, you'd shoot them under ...

At the back of the Woods' Farming and Heritage Museum at Rupanyup in western Victoria is a narrow room that used to be a storage space. But step inside now, and you're greeted by 850 miniature Tonka ...

Wayne Spence with the Tonka truck that inspired him to collect hundreds of the vintage toys and put them on display. Photo/Samuel White From the outside, it looks like a regular shipping container.

Kids who were into cars, trucks, and motorcycles had plenty of cool toys to choose from in the 1970s and 1980s. These toys were well built and many moved under their own power. And since so many of ...

The yellow Tonka Truck. Instantly recognizable by any child of decades past, that big metal beast would always make you popular around the sandbox. There were no blinking lights to dazzle, no noises ...