Hot Wheels Road Trip

So good.
Spotted on Church of Choppers.

Amaro and Walden's Joyride

Amaro and Walden's Joyride from The Line on Vimeo.
This is so clever. I originally saw a very short gif on the Death Spray Blog, but didn't see a link to where it came from, then found it via Le Container.

Joyride was made by a London-based collective of artist, designers and animators called The Line.
It has a mature rating, so if you're mature, then watch it before you share it with anyone.

Read how this great video was made at The Line Animation.  G

Enzo Sidecars: Back in stock

These are officially child's toy, but they make a great ornament too (in my opinion). Super tactile, EU approved, designed in the UK for a UK company (but made abroad).
We had British Racing Green and copper-coloured ones that sold out. Now we have red and chrome and silver and black.

Dimensions: Length 250mm x Width 195mm x Height 130mm
Materials: ABS Plastic with high gloss UV coating. Hand-polished with care.

£42 plus post for sideburn.bigcartel.com
We deliver worldwide. G

Meccano treasure trove

Meccano Magazine was started in 1916 by Frank Hornby, inventor of the Meccano hobby engineering sets (and later Hornby model railways and Dinky toys, some hat-trick) that did a brilliant job of keeping the minds of millions of teenage boys off their own nuts, for a while at least.

A bunch of insanely dedicate people have scanned and made available pretty much every copy of the magazine, which ran until 1981. There's even a searchable index. If you go in there, don't expect to emerge in less than an hour. The bikes, by the way, are from August and October 1929. Many thanks to Brownhills Bob for the tip-off. MP

Plastic biker

The Inman household has been after this fella for a while. My lad doesn't play with his Playmobil as much as he used to, but when this chopper rider was re-released and spotted by Mrs I we had to have him to join all the other riders in the toybox. The rider wears Fiddy-esque cowboy boots, trousers with metal discs up the seam (conches?), a black waistcoat (no back patch), skull shirt (perhaps from Iron & Resin) and a Centurion full-face. He's also sporting a fantastic Chesterfield Kings-style, page boy mop (below).

His bike is an innovative V3 (maybe Honda NS400) with girder front end, apes and twin lights.

There are five other bikes in the re-released Playmobil riders series. G

UPDATE: Check out more Sideburn Playmobil fun and here too.

Rollerball Action Figure

Great handmade one-off found by Dave Skooter Farm at Man is at the window blog.

On a kind of related subject, to quash any confusion, Rollerburn tickets are in the form of wristbands, not normal tickets. If you've ordered and haven't received yours yet, email us. Thanks. G

Boris

The knitwear obsession grows.
This is Boris the Sock Monkey by Fi who was making it for a friend till she realised he's an exact match of Project FT's Death Spray Custom Colour Blinder paint, right down to one orange eye. Thanks Fi. G

PS Yes, I've carpeted the garage. Van next, Stevie!

Spotted on top of a freezer...

In a petrol station somewhere in France. 78 euros. Tastier than the sandwiches on offer. G

Top Trumps

Must have bought these in about 1976/77. Ah, the fights they caused on the school bus on the way home. "160bhp? Bollocks!" "The Trumps don't lie!" But of course, they did. MP

We might be small, but we don't ***k about

Sideburn versus Goliath By Captain Simon Mills