Evel Knievel

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So California Creations is releasing another improved stunt cycle. I had to preorder because they had me with the nostalgia thing. I got my first one in 1976 and have bought the reproduction they offered in the past which was close enough to the original to have fun jumping GI Joe vehicles.
 

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So my cousins had even Knieval with bike. I never thought to much about it then I am at my uncle’s house & my cousin & I find an entire box of EK toys. The long lost doll etc.

Turns out my uncle worked for the toy company at some point & he famously rebuilt a lot of the returns & donated them to orphans & such. After the 3rd trip on Christmas Eve even the nuns said enough go somewhere else. :)

Needless to say my cousin & I were very happy that day. Probably no idea what those things were worth today, but my uncle didn’t live long enough for internets & Ebay.
 
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Sgt301

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So my cousins had even Knieval with bike. I never thought to much about it then I am at my uncle’s house & my cousin & I find an entire box of EK toys. The long lost doll etc.

Turns out my uncle worked for the toy company at some point & he famously rebuilt a lot of the returns & donated them to orphans & such. After the 3rd trip on Christmas Eve even the nuns said enough go somewhere else. :)

Needless to say my cousin & I were very happy that day. Probably no idea what those things were worth today, but my uncle didn’t live long enough for internets & Ebay.
That’s cool, I got quite a bit of fun outta that toy. I had the dragster with chute, and the big travel RV that year, the big PX in Stuttgart must’ve had a sale going on. Then there was the Big Toe field goal kicker from about 1977 that you could launch the small plastic ball a good 20 feet through the small uprights. The plastics they used were almost indestructible 🙂
 
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