Patriotic Smash Up Derby

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Oh 1976, you covered everything in flags!

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[HardyGirl]

Wow! I've never seen those before! That's pretty cool! Spirit of '76

[ScottA]

I absolutely love Smash Up Derby. I so had one as a kid. One of my favorite toys back then.

[neogelion]

I remember this set fondly. It took forever for me to understand how the rip cord was supposed to work. Pull it, set the car on the floor and nothing. Oh, you have to give the car a push. Very complicated when i was 6.

[Sowth]

Big SUD fan here too!

I'm 80% sure we had the Stars And Stripes version in Australia (Aren't we the 51st state?!), although not in wide release I'd guess. Haven't been able to prove that with a catalogue yet, but I've heard a couple of people say they had the set as kids.

I have the 72 "pastel' version in a Toltoys box, as well as a Toltoys Ultra Chrome set MIB, complete with the cars still sealed in their original shrinkwrap :-)

Along with Evel Knievel this was the best action toy of the 70's IMO.

Cheers!
Will

PS - B how come you achieve more on your 'breaks' than I do when I'm working hard???

[pooper_prez]

SSP cars were one of the coolest toys ever

I had several and made a lot of dents in my mom's baseboards with them. I had a spash-up derby set, which was an absolute blast, but I've never seen the patriotic version.

[Mikey]

Why would they paint the cars so nice just to wreck them minutes later ?

[toys2cool]

Those look like fun

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Wow! I wish I had seen that version of SUD when I was a kid. I was really into all Bi-Centennial stuff. I had a Tyco slot race set that had 1976 patriotic-style cars.

[Meule]

The cars actually fell apart and you had to reassemble then?

[fallensaviour]

Oh man SUD was my favorite toy as a kid I used to play with it for hours...
Wish I had one now...

[EmergencyIan]

A friend of mine had smash-up derby, when we were kids. It was always a lot of fun.


- Ian

[huedell]

Why would they paint the cars so nice just to wreck them minutes later ?

It actually makes MORE sense to paint 'em up nice.

For a simillar reason to that it's funnier to see a guy in a tuxedo
get hit by a pie as opposed to a guy in jeans and a T-shirt

[vulcan2074]

That would be a Blast to have. Looks like it would be alot of fun to play with
Sammy

[The Toyroom]

My cousin had those....he always had the cool stuff....