I still have this truck from the mid-60's that was a present from my parents. It is in near-mint condition and you restored it so well like the original that I have. GREAT job and thanks for another wonderful restoration video.
I don't think I have ever seen a Tonka truck with a backhoe attached. I've had plenty of backhoes and bulldozers from Tonka in the past. Nicely done. Close to 100K subscribers. So close to owning your own silver plaque!
Whenever I see your two hands I know that a masterpiece is on its way. The original owner of this Tonka truck will be very happy to see how his once upon a time favourite toy got a fantastic makeover...
Another brilliant video. Like the previous viewer said; I too thought it was a gonner! I find the sandblasting footage therapeutic and incredible how it removes the rust. One of my favourite subscriptions. Thank you from the UK.
Very nice restoration, but what really impresses me is the fact that you resisted the temptation to fabricate outriggers and install a little engine that would actually do some excavating!
Nice sandblaster upgrade. The HF cabinet is an OK entry level SB but having a media gun you don't have to shake or use upside down must be great! Very nice resto!
Super Awesome Restoration! Instead of regular body filler try 3M Ever coat Glaze. It's much thinner than body filler and is way easier to sand plus on the toys you restore it would be perfect! And you can literally apply it with your fingers and do wear some laytex or vynal gloves for that, and for ease of sanding use water with a little liquid hand soap.
I have suggested he use lead filler too it’s easy to work with I just wonder if the powder coat requires a high enough temperature to soften the lead ? Same for using bondo .
Yeah lead filler is easy to work with but it’s not very safe especially if a child ends up getting a toy repaired in lead. Private collections is one thing. It would be safer in my opinion to use a filler called Feather Fill it’s basically sprayable bondo. Sands really easy too.
Well done, Tim! First time I’ve seen a first-rate restoration of the headlights to original color. Like the clever sound effects, too. Cheers from Ohio! ~ John. 👍
Using the socket to remove the headlights was brilliant. I can't think of how many times I've busted plastic parts with expanding backs trying to remove them.
Well Tim another wonderful restoration, you looked fairly worn out after sanding that pink filler, I use that filler for cars etc so know how tough it can be. Great job keep them coming.
Fantastic restoration. That metal had some serious pitting issues. I don't think filler primer would have done much so Bondo all the way. I remember yellow trucks like that cleaning ditches in the spring time.
In my excitement to see the preview I forgot to This mention how awesome this video was! Another great restoration from one of my favourite subscriptions :)
Really impressive and beautiful restoration! Frankly that is generally true of your work and I love watching these videos. I also really appreciate that you gave a nice example of when and where you might use bondo resin to fill those pits - that part looks really labor intensive to me (with all the sanding) but of course you don't show us all the tremendous amount of other work you need to do so I'm not sure! 😉 Anyway Kudos - such a nice truck you end up with there!
My kids are always asking about why I watch you. To learn I always say. I'm one of seven. My older brother never had kids, and his house looks like a museum, old toys tons of corgi stuff, lunchboxes you name it. I think you'd have fun refinishing so many things he has with missing parts and so on.
I take it you have to have a mechanical engineer degree to disassemble and restore these pieces of past history.great as always,keep content coming and keep doing what your doing.😎😎😎👍👍👍
Using a compressor into a long balloon for making balloon animals might help to get those hubcaps off with less damage, easy to weave around & through underneath..... some lube wouldn't hurt either..... Also have you thought of making a Tonka Retro RC? Some RC Scale videos would be super cool with a Tonka retro refit RC machine.. Actual hydraulic lines & cylinders and even a small gas RC Motor to run it? Working LED operating lights... Just a thought.... Great job! I love restoring and watching things be restored too...
@@TRGRESTORATIONS even just drilling out some holes to put small LED would be an awesome touch... with a rechargeable AAA, I did that 30 years ago just on a model.. Could even make the lights binary like a "Binary clock".. 👌
Anybody remember the commercials for tonka with the full parking lot, and the narrator saying "do you know who the largest truck manufacturer is? Is not Ford ,GM ,or Chrysler ,it's tonka ". It's was a little lot with tonka products all over it!
Sir what a beautiful restoration with a awesome result. It's relaxing to watch.
Bright and beautiful! No longer a sad story!
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Looks great 👍
Nice work as always. Love these old Tonka trucks and vehicles, better quality than the ones they have out today.
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
A remarkable job and the end product is amazing. Always satisfying to watch the sand blasting and powder coating too. Great video mate 👍🏼
another awesome job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! looks fantastic
Thanks again!
Just incredible difference the before and after!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Grest job! The hammer and dolly work was brilliant.
The pleasure of seeing it restored 😄😀😊magnificent magical, thanks for sharing 👍
Many thanks!
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I don’t remember ever seeing a truck like this one. I have four brothers who would have fought over this one. Well done. I think it’s beautiful.
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I still have this truck from the mid-60's that was a present from my parents. It is in near-mint condition and you restored it so well like the original that I have. GREAT job and thanks for another wonderful restoration video.
Very cool! Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Beautiful Tonka well done.
Thank you 😁
Nice job on the restoration of that rust bucket... really turned out nice 👍🏻
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Most satisfying sand blasting on RUclips!! Great job
Wow, thanks!
Nice Job - I thought the body was a lost cause. Love your no-nonsense, videos!
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
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Great Work!!! That’s Awesome!!
Thank you! Cheers!
A great restoration. Like the way you pay attention to detail.
Thank you very much!
Another amazing restoration. Looks awesome!👊👍👍
Thanks 👍
Well done looks amazing
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I lover your videos, man! Don't ever change!! 👍
Glad you like them!
I don't think I have ever seen a Tonka truck with a backhoe attached. I've had plenty of backhoes and bulldozers from Tonka in the past.
Nicely done. Close to 100K subscribers. So close to owning your own silver plaque!
Soooo close!
Cool project and Great job buddy👍
Thanks 👍
Fabulous! Whew! I thought you were in for a long haul with the sanding. Love it! Carol
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Turned out awesome. Great job. 😊❤ 🇺🇸
Most excellent! ✌🏻🎨☕️
Thank you! Cheers!
T R G GREAT WORK ....
I cant get enough with you and Chip Channel you both do kick ass work
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Another incredible restoration sir! 😎
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome restore!
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Great job. Is it just me? But anyone else find it satisfying to him sand blast the paint and rust off the pieces?
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Nice job!!!!!!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very pretty. You did a great job.
Simply amazing job !!👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you! Cheers!
A new restoration. Thank you, TRG. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Our pleasure!
@@TRGRESTORATIONS nice job freind
hi, i'm new to this business, can you see how i restore??..
Whenever I see your two hands I know that a masterpiece is on its way. The original owner of this Tonka truck will be very happy to see how his once upon a time favourite toy got a fantastic makeover...
Wow, thank you!
Sanding is soooooo satisfying 🤠
Could not agree more!
A awesome job u did sir it looks nice well done a beautiful restoration sir all original pretty nice 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Looks like a new Tonka Toy again and you did a great job restoring it
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you 🤗
Thanks for the close ups and the tappity tappity. Good job on the videos.
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Another brilliant video. Like the previous viewer said; I too thought it was a gonner! I find the sandblasting footage therapeutic and incredible how it removes the rust. One of my favourite subscriptions. Thank you from the UK.
Thanks 👍
Hey Tim
Man what a beautiful truck you now have!😃
New metal tools look good.
Take care
Thanks 👍
Absolutely fantastic
Great job, as usual, the backhoe mechanism is really well done 👍
Thank you very much!
That was a good one, for sure. It came out really nice!
Thanks a bunch!
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Super sweet restoration.
Thank you very much!
Very nice work mate fantastic
Thank you! Cheers!
Very well done 👍 great 👍 restoration.
Thank you very much!
Nice job on this one!! Love the classic look
Thank you! Cheers!
WOW ! Awesome ! Great Resto.
Many thanks!!
1963. I have a near mint one. Great job.
Awesome! Thank you!
excellent job
Thank you very much!
Love your stuff !
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Another great save sir.
Thanks again!
Another Great Restoration...
Thanks again!
beautiful, great job
Hi TRG! Well Done! Have a good one!
Amazing job
Very nice restoration, but what really impresses me is the fact that you resisted the temptation to fabricate outriggers and install a little engine that would actually do some excavating!
lol next time!
Nice sandblaster upgrade. The HF cabinet is an OK entry level SB but having a media gun you don't have to shake or use upside down must be great! Very nice resto!
Thanks! Redline Stands are awesome!
Am I the only who loves the sped-up sound of the body hammers?
Hello TRG beautiful restoration good job my friend well done
Thank you! Cheers!
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Que bonito. De vuelta a poder ser usado en obras públicas.
Nice job!
How awesome. Such a great work ☺☺
Super Awesome Restoration!
Instead of regular body filler try 3M Ever coat Glaze. It's much thinner than body filler and is way easier to sand plus on the toys you restore it would be perfect! And you can literally apply it with your fingers and do wear some laytex or vynal gloves for that, and for ease of sanding use water with a little liquid hand soap.
I have suggested he use lead filler too it’s easy to work with I just wonder if the powder coat requires a high enough temperature to soften the lead ? Same for using bondo .
Yeah lead filler is easy to work with but it’s not very safe especially if a child ends up getting a toy repaired in lead. Private collections is one thing. It would be safer in my opinion to use a filler called Feather Fill it’s basically sprayable bondo. Sands really easy too.
Oh! I love your body hammering technique! I wish I could hammer as quickly and accurately as you! LOL!!!
takes years of practice lol
Well done, Tim! First time I’ve seen a first-rate restoration of the headlights to original color. Like the clever sound effects, too. Cheers from Ohio! ~ John. 👍
Backhoe bucket is placed backwards, otherwise it is a superlative restoration.
Thanks!
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@@HugoHugunin
It is back on the truck just as it was before he started...
Using the socket to remove the headlights was brilliant.
I can't think of how many times I've busted plastic parts with expanding backs trying to remove them.
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
hi, i'm new to this business, can you see how i restore??..
Well Tim another wonderful restoration, you looked fairly worn out after sanding that pink filler, I use that filler for cars etc so know how tough it can be. Great job keep them coming.
Thanks 👍
Nice color 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic restoration. That metal had some serious pitting issues. I don't think filler primer would have done much so Bondo all the way. I remember yellow trucks like that cleaning ditches in the spring time.
Thanks 👍
Amazing video brother 👍👍🙏
Thank you 👍
Beautiful 😉👍
Nice job my friend
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow as new excellent job sir!
Thank you very much!
Nice resto looks like a shinny penny.
Thank you! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Awesome 🤘 I do love the sand blasting
Me too!
@@TRGRESTORATIONS cool 🤘
In my excitement to see the preview I forgot to This mention how awesome this video was! Another great restoration from one of my favourite subscriptions :)
Thanks again!
That is one more for museum!!! Really great job. I'd like to see what you could do with your own theme on painting one of these bad boys!!!
Cool idea!
I like that sticker on the back, JUST for those people who follow "too close".. LOL... Get Back Yoe..
lol exactly!
I thought it was an instruction to working girls🤣
Really impressive and beautiful restoration! Frankly that is generally true of your work and I love watching these videos. I also really appreciate that you gave a nice example of when and where you might use bondo resin to fill those pits - that part looks really labor intensive to me (with all the sanding) but of course you don't show us all the tremendous amount of other work you need to do so I'm not sure! 😉 Anyway Kudos - such a nice truck you end up with there!
Thank you very much!
hi, i'm new to this business, can you see how i restore??..
Fantastic job, and almost 100k subs, good job amigo, cheers!
Getting close!!!
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
My kids are always asking about why I watch you. To learn I always say. I'm one of seven. My older brother never had kids, and his house looks like a museum, old toys tons of corgi stuff, lunchboxes you name it. I think you'd have fun refinishing so many things he has with missing parts and so on.
Nice truck
SWEET!
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
10:17 Bob Ross! The Joy of Painting!😂👍🏻
Better than new!
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I take it you have to have a mechanical engineer degree to disassemble and restore these pieces of past history.great as always,keep content coming and keep doing what your doing.😎😎😎👍👍👍
lol, nah just a regular ole DIY weekend mechanic
Perfect!!
it's scary to think I remember some of these toys as a child...I can't be that old!
our family still has some too!
lol same here!
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@@restorationh.i.a7139 I liked it a lot except for the music
Fiel segudor...gran trabajo, muy atento tus videos....saludos
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
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Sounded like a woodpecker when fixing the dent! Awesome restoration as always some major work gone into this one! 😁👍
Thanks 👍
P}8 in see
I do some of my deepest thinking during the sandblasting!!
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
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És caminhão vai ficar muito bonito parabéns 👏 para você mesmo
Using a compressor into a long balloon for making balloon animals might help to get those hubcaps off with less damage, easy to weave around & through underneath..... some lube wouldn't hurt either.....
Also have you thought of making a Tonka Retro RC? Some RC Scale videos would be super cool with a Tonka retro refit RC machine.. Actual hydraulic lines & cylinders and even a small gas RC Motor to run it? Working LED operating lights...
Just a thought.... Great job! I love restoring and watching things be restored too...
I've done one RC conversion before, going to be doing another one in the very near future
@@TRGRESTORATIONS even just drilling out some holes to put small LED would be an awesome touch... with a rechargeable AAA, I did that 30 years ago just on a model.. Could even make the lights binary like a "Binary clock".. 👌
Anybody remember the commercials for tonka with the full parking lot, and the narrator saying "do you know who the largest truck manufacturer is? Is not Ford ,GM ,or Chrysler ,it's tonka ". It's was a little lot with tonka products all over it!
Cool!!
I do shows my age sad they are no longer made in the USA
I near died when I saw you hit the dolly with the panel hammer, as well as use it back to front. Other than that, great restoration.
Good job yeaaaaa!!!!!
Thanks for watching! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
You Fixed it Car toys 🚛
Oh yeah!
Ficou incrível. Brasil 🇧🇷
That's not a restoration, that's a resurrection....