[TEPUI]

If you were born in the 70s, you probably remember playing with a Stomper Toy Truck. They were these little AA powered toy 4x4 trucks with interchangeable tires. This was one of my favorite toys. Came to mind because i saw a Jeep Honcho today and it reminded me I used to have a toy that looked just like it. I have just realized that this is how I really started loving 4x4s.

[cbmontgo]

Holy crap...I forgot about those! I used to LOVE Stompers.

[WristPin]

i had one that looked like a bronco with the top off. to revved it up, and all 4 tires spun, it had low gears and wouls crwal over every thing.
not quite a Stomper, but cool.

[TEPUI]

i was also amazed when I realized i had TOTALLY forgotten about it. makes me wonder how much stuff one forgets

Found my first J**p on Google:

[brian]

yeap. they had plactic "hills" and stuff you could setup.
they ran on one AA, had high and low range as well as "neutral" as well as working head lights.
the roll/lightbar/tonnue cover on this one snapped out and could be replaced with one of those in bed camper(not a cap) things that were all the rage.



anybody recall the mini stompers that mc-D's put in their happymeals?
about half the size of the ''real'' ones, and only had "neutral"?



and yes it's an SR5....

[HawkDriver]

Vaguely, but yes. I'd like another one.

[VETTE60]

Ahhh... my firs memories of 4x4. stompers ruled!

[brett76]

MAN iused to play with those all day in the creek behind my house. i even had the BIG swamper stomper amphibious one. i would even take it in the bathtub and watch it cruise around in there

[TEPUI]

Brian, nice truck dude!

Are you the original owner?

[TLCA_Paul]

And then there were Mods! I used to put a 9V batery in mine, Yea it could be done with only 1 piece of wire and then it realy flew. The other thing I used to do was drop it into the fishtank running. but only on a AA. It was like running in slow motion, or on the moon. We also glued bigger wheels and tires on them. A little fender trimmin or they just stuck out past the body.

I had a bunch, my fav was the Van.

[TLCA_Paul]

Oh Yea, just like this



http://www.stomper4x4.com/

[cary]

Don't remember the brand, but I definetely had one.

[Cruisin'Carolina]

I think I had one or two, I know my little brother did.... We glued two tires together to make them wider....

[offroadkid]

Here's a link to a Stomper thread I started once. It's got a pic of a green Toyota SR5!

[stevezero]

I had stompers, the pulling sled, the obstacle course, and made several more courses. My favorite was the 4wd blue chevy stepside that looked like John's truck from Chips. Had another that had a camper top on it. We built trailers for them, a clay pulling track, changed some to 2wd for pulling, weight bars on the front, etc. They had sponge tires, hard rubber tires, double wide tires.

The coolest was drivin em at night, watchin the lights light up.

And of course the obligitory running over of strings of matchbox cars (not hotwheels, cause they were cool).

I had about a mile of the orange hotwheels track, the figure 8 course, and all kinda other stuff. You couldnt walk in the back half of our house without negotiating orange track.

I also had three TCR sets that I'd make into a monster track, with 8 cars on it (remember the jam cars....)

My mom picked up all of that stuff at garage sales.

A friend of mine had a sizzler set. Big highbanked track with cars that youd charge up a battery inside em and let em fly. You'd lose an eye if one of them things jumped the track, or get a big welt on your forehead......

Ahh the good ole days..

[wsdavies]

Stompers were def. cool back in the early 80's. My buddies always had a bunch...I always liked the smell of the foam tires..

[TLCA_Paul]

Yep I had that sisslers track too. Never had TCR, but did have alot of Tyco and AFX slot track. Then got into WOmp WOmp, and flex chassis for a while before going to RC10's

[TRT2]

still have two of mine, the honcho and a CJ... bummed I missed the Toyota truck.

[HawkDriver]

Similarly cool,

My kids have these hotwheels (yeah they were always cooler in my book too) rev up climber things. They're magnetic on the bottom and 4 wheel drive with articulating front axles, they defy gravity and drive up metal objects... it's amazing.

The coolest one he has actually has a high and low range by just clicking down on the body, it hauls ass and crawls. Coooool

[stevezero]

I worked at a hobby shop growin up, and assembled an 8 lane slot car track. German guy named Hassie built it, and we assembled it in the store. Was a cool track. 350 ft i think. I remember the womps, flexifliers. The coolest fun was running the 1/24 scale tamtech cars on it (small RC on the highbanks was a challenge).

Did more than my share of RC stuff. Even had an original Tamiya bruiser with the toyota body. Have a ton of RC aircraft stuff in my garage. I just got my daughter an rc10t that we play around with in the front yard.

[C6H12O6]

I smoked the amphibious one in my parent's hot tub. We used to play with those things for hours. My favorite Stomper 4x4 memory is sneaking up on my sister and putting a running Stomper in her hair. It tangled up so bad, my mom had to cut her hair. Awesome.

[shelfboy1]

my 2 older boys are in their 30s and had many of those .about a week ago or so my 17 year old found them and set up a course i had forgot how much fun they were.dang things go almost any where .we have a set of 12 mcdonalds stompers but before mcds they actually had motors.good luck

[My wife said no FJ!]

Good times...wish I still had one

[TEPUI]

Originally Posted by C6H12O6

My favorite Stomper 4x4 memory is sneaking up on my sister and putting a running Stomper in her hair. It tangled up so bad, my mom had to cut her hair. Awesome.

Oh man! another flashback!

[Vitesse_6]

I just got one back from my parents house over the weekend, It was a big blue one that floated with a little water jet on the bottom, It still works in forward!
I bought my son a few off ebay a few years ago, He loved them, But none of them are fast enough for him.

[wesintl]

I loved mine back in the day. I think I had a white blazer or bronco. The outdoor tires were awesome.

[tblume]

Originally Posted by C6H12O6

I smoked the amphibious one in my parent's hot tub. We used to play with those things for hours. My favorite Stomper 4x4 memory is sneaking up on my sister and putting a running Stomper in her hair. It tangled up so bad, my mom had to cut her hair. Awesome.

buwhaahaaahaaaaaa

you and I must be long lost brothers, I see you are in my old stomping grounds too, ..get it...?

[dieseldan]

holy fricken flashback.. name sounded familiar and as soon as I saw the pic I was back in time - as said above, good times.

[INFERNAL]

Originally Posted by shelfboy1

my 2 older boys are in their 30s and had many of those .about a week ago or so my 17 year old found them and set up a course i had forgot how much fun they were.dang things go almost any where .we have a set of 12 mcdonalds stompers but before mcds they actually had motors.good luck

Wow that's awesome . I'm in my 30s and I used to have a few Stompers , I think those were my favorite toys ever , I remember my Dad kinda took them from me when I was getting into other toys and he put them away in a box somewhere . He still has them stored away somewhere . I still have a few of the McDonalds Stompers , funny thing is they are still around . They now belong to my kids but I still see them playing with them from time to time .

[ms018kmf]

Awesome, I had totally forgotten. Never had a collection but those were tough toys. Besides corrosion I don't think we ever broke any. TCR was fun too, damn that jam car.