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GMCDAC
November 10th, 2016, 03:09 AM
A person I know on my garden tractor site has this very nice toy from the 60's. Ideal did a pretty darn nice job on it and the V-6 emblem is even faintly visible on the sides of the hood.

Just thought some of you may get a kick out of it like I did.

DAC
bigblockv6
November 10th, 2016, 04:38 AM
As a kid I had this particular truck along with a GMC tow truck and it also came with a set of road tracks you could run it on.:upyes:
BobBray
November 10th, 2016, 08:12 AM
It was called Motorific, made by Ideal in the mid-60's to late 70's. Basically they were battery powered slot cars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorific

Had some interesting and well detailed bodies. I had a big old International cement mixer.
6066gmcguy
November 10th, 2016, 10:58 AM
Those are cool toys, I have the Dump & Tow truck, plus I have a track set too.
bobdylan
November 10th, 2016, 01:50 PM
Boys are never to old for toys.
TJ's GMC
November 10th, 2016, 03:10 PM
Always loved those!
GMCDAC
November 11th, 2016, 01:58 AM
Thanks for the comments! I also had a Motorific track in the mid sixties. I lost it in a flood in 1972. The only car I remember with it was a dark blue 1963 Chevy Impala. Mom drove a white one between the 1960 and 1970 GMC's she had.

DAC
bigblockv6
November 11th, 2016, 02:15 AM
Funny how you lost yours in the mid 60's, a similar thing happened to my motorific tracks back in 1969. I decided to bring them back home from our summer house that would get flooded sometimes in the winter back to San Francisco. I set the tracks in the bed of my fathers 68 GMC, once he hit the freeway around 3 of the tracks blew right out so from that point on I only had a partial track setup
GMCDAC
November 12th, 2016, 12:18 AM
Funny how you lost yours in the mid 60's, a similar thing happened to my motorific tracks back in 1969. I decided to bring them back home from our summer house that would get flooded sometimes in the winter back to San Francisco. I set the tracks in the bed of my fathers 68 GMC, once he hit the freeway around 3 of the tracks blew right out so from that point on I only had a partial track setup

Lost it in '72, along with everything else we owned except Mom's '70 GMC. We got out in that. I also had lots of HO and 1/24th slot car stuff too.

That's ironic, Pete, you try to save your tracks from water damage and end up having them blown away instead!

DAC
bigblockv6
November 12th, 2016, 03:14 AM
Well I just bought the GMC wrecker on ebay and probably get the dump truck too:teehee: