Re: [AMC-list] Toledo Torch

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Wow, that is a blast from the past! It's hard to imaging those stinky
flammable things tossed along the side of the road, and they don't make crap
for light either! We too used to kick 'em, but I also recall we got a
sneaker covered with smelly greasy soot.

Wish I had one. I think I'd leave it all nasty sticky smelly and dented!



On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 20:13, Jeff Reeves <amcnut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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)
>
>  Message: 1
>> 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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