kitkatman
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Does anyone remember?My Brother came to visit today and we got talking about toys we used to have as kids, we were trying to remember the name of a toy, it was a sort of wind up racing car from the early 70's I think, it had a big "flywheel" in the middle of the car, and you pushed a plastic strap that had teeth on it into the car, that engaged with the teeth on the flywheel, you then pulled the strap out as fast as you could to spin the wheel, which sent the car careering along the floor. I've been searching on eBay to see if I could find one, but so far I've been unsucsessful.
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pops
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Pink Panthers car is the one that I immediately thought of 
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Old Tom
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I don't remember a car but I do remember there was an Evil Knievel stunt bike that used the same principle to power the rear wheel.
Not much help really, sorry kkm! 
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Mark G
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Was it the set of two cars that were meant to crash into each other, which had a huge flywheel in the plastic bodyshell, one was a pale blue VW Beetle and the other a red U.S (possibly) Ford F150 pick up? I remember kids at my primary school had those and played "car tag" in the playground with them approx late 70's.
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kitkatman
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Yes thats the one Mark!  but what were they called?
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Mark G
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Not Demolition Derby was it or "Slam Bam Sam"????
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Andrew
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My lad Alex had a toy motorbike that worked like that - would have been about 1992 or 3. Me and one of my buddies took it over as it worked brilliantly - we got it doing bigger and bigger stunts until we broke the front wheel. he was distraught and it took a while for his mother to forgive us.
Really good though, the heavy flywheel really made it move.
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Nile
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In the U.S. the smaller and cheaper ones were cereal premiums.
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Corgi kid
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| Mark G wrote: | | Not Demolition Derby was it or "Slam Bam Sam"???? |
I had the set, It was called Stock Car smash up. Both cars would be launched at each other and were ment to smash to pieces when they collided. Doors, bonnets ans bumpers came off. Also I remember the Pink Panther version. My friend had that and It was really fast.
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kitkatman
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That's it Corgi Kid  you got it!
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Mr Taxi
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I had a set of those cars too. It was called 'Classy Crashers'. There was an orange Rolls Royce-ish type car and a red Lincoln two door coupe thing. Pull the ripcords and watch them smash! The parts would all fly off, even the dummy plastic wheels. I had hours of fun with mine! They got properly wrecked eventually, sadly. Would love to find another set though. Were they made by Kenner? I can't remember...
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