[henkster]

We got all our Matchbox and Hot Wheels at Ed Schock’s Toy & Hobby Shop. It was heaven for kids. Ed also had the Estes rockets with the solid propellant. And a great selection of Revell plastic model warships.

All of which met their explosive demise in the drainage ditch after being shot up by BB guns.

[Charles Martel]

Heh. I seem to recall an incident involving a Hot Wheels car, a length of that straight orange track - and one of the 1/2A Estes rocket motors taped to the car.

It went airborne well before it ran out of track. Never did find it. :-)

[OldMissileer]

We got all our Matchbox and Hot Wheels at Ed Schock’s Toy & Hobby Shop. It was heaven for kids. Ed also had the Estes rockets with the solid propellant. And a great selection of Revell plastic model warships.

All of which met their explosive demise in the drainage ditch after being shot up by BB guns.

I got most of my Matchbox cars at Meijer's Thrifty Acres (now just called Meijer's). They were four for $1 in the early to mid 60s and my parents would let me have $1 worth of cars if I had behaved.

I did the Estes rockets when I was a teen. When I got bored with a rocket model I would use one of the first stage engines that had the ability to ignite a second stage engine and pack black powder above the engine. When the first stage engine fired the top portion there would be a cool explosion.

We would take our plastic ship models out to a tiny pond on my Uncle's dairy farm and put glue all over them then light them on fire. As they floated on the pond we would blow the heck out of them with the BB guns just like you and yours did.

A lot of great fun as a kid!