In The 80s - Toys of the Eighties Index

Commentor Name:	oldskool tville ky
Comments left:	I can remember these like it was yesterday, but truth is it's been better than 20 years when I was a teen in HS these was very popular for some of the kids such as myself and a few friend who took them seriously. We would modify these by removing the plastic cover that held the motor against the gears next we would remove the wheels tires and axles next we would cut openings in the plastic frame to allow us to add larger motor, aluminum spur gears, extended axles and different wheels and tires. For the life of me I don't remember how we come across the place that we got the stuff to do this but looking back it has to be through a mail order RC or radio control hobbies company because the internet didn't exist in the mid 80's for us and the only place I know today that sells anything similar is that. The only thing that I have not seen is what he called a "wolly tire" or "wally tire" he&& I dunno the spelling but they were over sized super stick foam type tires on highly polished aluminum wheels and each mounted to the axle with a Allen head set screw. These wolly tires gripped like glue to control the throttle and speed of these bad boys when we finished modifying them we would run a good length of wire through the top or side of the plastic body and connected to a external power source and a hand held speed control er that was usually borrowed from a electrical toy race car track. In the finished stated these would pull tremendous amounts of weight considering there size. For added traction we would take a piece of metal rod, bent in the shape of a U drill holes in the front bumper and insert it into the front bumper once finished it would usually extend 1-2 inches beyond the front bumper and was used to hold weights. Me and the friend I refereed to that did this would carry these to school with us each morning faithfully and have pull offs to see who was the best. Sometimes we would attach them bumper to bumper and pull against each other the person that lost would usually jump back changes his weights, tires and wait for another turn. If that got boring we would stack up school books and see how many we could push or pull across the lunch table. When all else failed we would fold up the lunch tables to its partially incline position and see which one could climb the steepest hill. Yeah this is the way I remember the stomper toy and our way of passing the 1-2 hours wait that we usually had before school because our parents had dropped us off at school early. For a HS kid living in a small town that had nothing to offer this was a adrenalin rush as it always gathering a crowd. Looking back I think it is what Fu&& up my life, Because it was during that time that I thought I could scale that fun up and take it out into the real world and work on cars for a living it hasn\\\'t been all that exciting but I\\\'m sure that has a lot to do with never getting out of the small one horse town. Last and overall I would have to say that stompers toys can be a lot of fun regardless of whether they had anything to do with the choices I made in life and I would change those days if I could.
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