Re: [AMC-list] Toledo Torch

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

They were originally red around here, but turned black from soot and fuel spillage.

Ken


Quoting 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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