Re: [AMC-list] Toledo Torch

["Jeff Reeves" <amcnut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've got a Toledo Torch that's practically NOS. I bought it at a swap meet 
years ago as I had a kick of nostalgia for the things (yes, I am old enough 
to remember them in use). The guy I got it from was in his late 40s/early 
50s and he said he'd had it since he was a teenager. Had a brand new wick in 
it, had never been lit. Not dented/scratched/scuffed but it did have a light 
covering of surface rust.
I bead blasted it and painted it with some black grill paint. Still sits on 
a shelf in my living room! I still think they're cool.

Jeff Reeves
Auburn, GA
94 Cherokee Sport
72 Javelin SST
68 AMX (x2)

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> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:46:39 -0500
> From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AMC-list] Toledo Torch
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> I happened on this on ebay this evening, and boy, did that bring back some 
> memories. Our
> front yard down in Corpus Christi, TX was interstate 37. From our front 
> porch, the feeder
> road (2009 Antelope St at corner of Doss, go google earth it) was about 10 
> feet away.
> Across the street is a hill up to the big interchange of Crosstown 
> Expressway and I-37,
> which heads to downtown less than mile away. On Water Street where I-37 
> ends (because it
> deadends at Shoreline and Corpus Christi Bay) was All American Motors one 
> of the
> dealerships my dad worlked at.
>
> I never knew the names of these things we played with as a kid. The work 
> crews would drop
> them off and they were filled with kerosine(?) but would burn all night. 
> It was fun to
> ride our bikes and kick them and watch them roll around as a fireball. All 
> the kids in the
> neighborhood, about 20 of us, seemed to have a collection of them. Don't 
> know why, but the
> work crews would turn them off during the day and simply toss them in pile 
> in our, or
> other yards for later use, so we kept a few.
>
> Now these have been replaced with those flashing round lights. My kids 
> have whole
> collection of those from wrecks we have seen on I-10 about a mile away, so 
> we pick them
> up. They have big battery in them and will flash for about a week. What is 
> neat about
> those is somewhere in the darned thing is a eye, that is, when you shine 
> light on it, or
> sun comes up...it turns off automatically. So the kids use flashlights on 
> them in back
> yard.
>
> Back to these Toledo Torches.....
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Toledo-Torch-Rail-Road-Flare-Smudge-Pot_W0QQitemZ260480814582QQcategoryZ95147QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D10%26ps%3D63
>
> I am not sure this big link will stick, but if not, simply go search 
> www.ebay.com for
> 'toledo torch' and you will see these little bombs. Sure brought back some 
> memories from
> 40 years ago seeing one and sometimes I am Rambler slow, but took 40 years 
> to learn the
> actual name of one.
> Eddie Stakes
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.planethoustonamx.com

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