Vintage 80's toy ?

[CntCtchMe]

ok. i know i havent posted for a very long time but i have a question for all you experts on 80's memorabilia. Maybe late 80's there was a yellow vehicle (i think it was yellow) it had a shifter on the back of it and maybe 4" wide and about 1"1/2 tall
tires until you pulled the shifter, then the wheels would shrink to about 2" wide and the tires would balloon up and fan out to about 3" tall for traction it was motorized and moved forward and reverse, I'm pretty sre the shifter was an H pattern but thats all i remember about it
i can't remember the name of it or who made it. My older brother had one back in the day and i remember breaking it by leaving it behind my moms 350 caprice wagon, needless to say it got smashed, so i was trying to find him one for his birthday because he liked it so much. thanks for reading and i hope somone knows what I'm talking about

 

[HeartBreak]

I think I know of exactly the toy you're looking for. I used to have one. The body was Die-Cast, and the shifter was on the roof. It was made by either Matchbox or Mattel.

Kinda like this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Matchbox-280-ZX...-PACE-CAR_W0QQitemZ160011441443QQcmdZViewItem

 

[CntCtchMe]

i think the body kinda looked like that but it was at least 1/14th scale, i know it wasn't as big at 1/10th but too big to be 1/18th, seems like somthing hasbro would have come out with. thanks for looking though

 

[HeartBreak]

No problem. About the only other thing with a shifter on the roof that I can think of might be a Tonka type thing.

 

[redneckracer1979]

I am not sure what they are called but they were 4wd also. I have exactly what it looks like in my head.

 

[CntCtchMe]

yeah i can picture it in my head as well but i can't find a picture of it anywhere I've tried typing in all sorts of things in yahoo and google but nothing comes up, the only names that come to my head are prowler or panther, the name revolved around somthing to do with the tires or having good traction i think

 

[beason]

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that one has shifters on the roof, that is what i was thinking about...

then you have "the animal" and one of those was yellow but i dont see a shifter..

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/1607/


EDIT!!! i found it!!! its called "flex"

here is the old commercial!!

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/204/

 

[CntCtchMe]

hot damn great find thanks alot, i forgot all about the animal, i had one of them, i think there still is a claw or 2 floating around the attic, i never did keep my toys in tact, thanks for finding the flex great website too ill be sitting here for hours now watchin vids, there gos my day off to clean the garage and play with my stampede.

 

[beason]

yea i watched about 20 of them... i was laughing so hard.

 

[Rolex]

I don't remember Flex, but I do remember Clawz. Never owned one, but I was fascinated by the ad.

 

[CntCtchMe]

i think i watched all the 80s toys, and about 25 comericials for movies, thats a great site, takes me back to when i was kid, i can't belive how outdated everything looks, 20 years sure does alot. all the transformer toys look so much better than the ones they make now, they acually were made pretty good, so were the G.I joe toys they took a beating back then, now it doesn't take much to break them. i only know this because i found a few out of pagage at my job and i just had to see how strong they are now, only took a couple shots from an airsoft gun and it was destroyed, i used to shoot mine with a bb gun and it could take a whole clip before it was useless