Old Antique Toys

This blog discusses old toys from the early 1920's to the end of the 1950's. All kinds of topics are discussed. The time span was the greatest period for "hands-on" toys, where a young child could actually go outside and play for hours at a time. You can see the elegance but simple design of these toys. It was a time when huge machines, and people made and finished toys by hand. The era has long passed, but many of the toys are still around, and that is what I would like to share.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

A Sandblasted Kingsbury Ford Coupe

Thursday, June 7, 2012

A Sandblasted Kingsbury

Ford Coupe

You've seen today's toy on the May 11, 2012 post. I just started to buy these fine toys. It's a Kingsbury 1937 Ford Coupe Wind-up Car. It's made of pressed steel. If you don't remember or don;lt want to go to the May 11, 2012 post, the photo below is how the car looked "before".

This toy measures 12" (305mm) in length.

I decided to repaint it because it's a beautiful toy to repaint.I also want to take the wind-up mechanism from this model and transfer for to another larger 14" Kingsbury with lights. That one I want to fully restore.

The sandblasting has removed the rusted from the front grill and lights.

However the shine has been lost. I'm simply going to spray paint the grill with a metallic paint.

I'll leave it up to the buyer to purchase a new grill if he/she wants.

I'll probably have to purchase 2 shiny headlight inserts for the front headlights.

The wind-up mechanism is missing a metal brake.

As the car wind-ups now, there is no break to hold the wound up energy on the spring. You need to use your finger to hold the tension.

I'm going to have a local professional antique restorer make the brake.

Here's a close-up photo of the wind-up mechanism

So that's it for today.

Thank's for dropping by, and have a nice day

wherever you may be.

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