How does anyone narrow it down to one favorite toy. I was lucky enough to have a few growing up. I felt good when I whittled it down to 3.
In my option toys do not get much better than old school metal dinky, they just do not make toys like that anymore. I did not really get right into the television shows but the robust metal functional toys that actually fired missiles where great.
Dinky 104 is the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (SPV) was produced from 1968 to 1976. I have no idea when I got mine but it would have been in the 70s.
The vehicle is from Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons T.V shows,
Pressing down on the vehicle triggers the missile to launch via a mechanism on the center wheels. The top button opens the side door.
Number 2 is from a different Gerry Anderson show Called UFO, where this toy used to be based on our moon and fly around defending the earth against the UFOs.
The Dinky #351 UFO Interceptor, lock and load the missile mechanism underneath and the firing button is the red plate at the front.
Dinky #353 Shado 2 is my number one and favorite, from the same show UFO with the flip top lid.
I think this was the first one I had. These are not the originals I had from back in the day. I had to rebuy them about 10 years ago and get some spare parts to fix them. I often wonder what happened to the ones I had, I suppose there is some sort of chance I ended up buying the same ones back off ebay.