Enter toy fans and collectors like those in these videos, which show how to restore Tonka trucks. It's both fascinating and therapeutic to see the transformation. While there are countless examples of ...

Youngsters toddling around their back yards in the ’50s hadn’t a clue that the $5 toy trucks they played with would one day become collectibles, highly prized by grown men. But that is precisely the ...

Watch the meticulous restoration of a rare 1970s Tonka Formula One Racing Car, one of only two known to exist. Disassembled, ...

Sometimes bigger is better, and there's nothing that's better when it's bigger than automotive toys. Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars were definitely cool, but with a heavy hand, you'd shoot them under ...

Wayne Spence with the Tonka truck that inspired him to collect hundreds of the vintage toys and put them on display. Photo/Samuel White From the outside, it looks like a regular shipping container.

For years after the Tonka Toys plant shut down in Mound, Lloyd Laumann worked to keep the memory and history of the famous company alive. Laumann, 78, of Waconia, who died Nov. 22 after years of heart ...

The yellow Tonka Truck. Instantly recognizable by any child of decades past, that big metal beast would always make you popular around the sandbox. There were no blinking lights to dazzle, no noises ...

Make cash now by selling your old dust-covered toys and dolls at the Tallahassee Antique Toy & Doll Buying Show, which will be held Dec. 3-5 at the Courtyard Tallahassee, 1972 Raymond Diehl Road. “Our ...