toy 65 ford truck and camper

[willy3486]

Is anyone familiar with this radio. From what I understand it was a promotional truck back in the 60s. I have a real truck like this and I bought this one at a radio show a few weeks ago. It has model number p-23 on it. I am looking for a schematic for it. I am guessing it was a philco model you could buy in a case and they just installed it in the toy trucks camper. You can hear static and thats it. I think it used the same radio as the mustang toys at that time.

[Jon A.]

Are there even any AM stations in your area? None here. I can just barely pull in far-away AM stations and only at night, on an old car stereo on my bench, with the antenna mast fully extended.

[willy3486]

Quite a few here. One am staition is about 6 miles from my house. then there are two or three 30 miles or less around. WSM is about 60 miles from me as well. I can pick them up but I may not be interested in them. I also have a small transmitter as well.

[egrand]

That is a Nylint toy truck made in Rockford, IL and the radio is indeed a Philco as it says right on one of the knobs. It was apparently a dealer promo model.

Here is a great website on Nylint and other metal toys and the page here is the one with your camper (second from the top): http://www.tnttoytrucks.com/NYF-SPU2.html

Nylint was famous in the 60's for their copies of Ford trucks and U-Haul equipment. They abruptly shifted to Chevy in the early 70's. I had a bunch of Nylint toys as a kid and loved them.

[boora2]

Plenty of AM stations in Australia,but days of the old 400kW City Monsters,whose signal was much appreciated by country folks after the 5kW sheepshaggers had gone off air,are gone,the audio bandwidth is rooted by all the digital bullshit processors.Had a promontial toy radio brought out for the Vampire Lovers,it had a coffin that opened and inside were two beaver pelt traders=lesbians.

[TVTim]

I had that very same toy as a kid. Mine was well"loved".

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by KV-1926R

Are there even any AM stations in your area? None here. I can just barely pull in far-away AM stations and only at night, on an old car stereo on my bench, with the antenna mast fully extended.

Boy, radio must be different in Canada! I don't think I've been anywhere in the USA where AM could not be received during the day.

[TV'S&MORE]

[QUOTE=willy3486;3082872]I have a real truck like this and I bought this one at a radio show a few weeks ago.

I have the real truck like this too. I never knew there was a radio to match. very cool. I like it.

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Boy, radio must be different in Canada! I don't think I've been anywhere in the USA where AM could not be received during the day.

I think CBC closed all the AM & switched to FM. Used to be a huge
network with tiny 40 watt one towners to 50K sledge hammers.
Used to get a Canadian on almost every freq except the US clears
at nite. Still AM in the big cities and who in the east didnt listen
to CKLW as a teen..........

73 Zeno