Which Childhood Toy Would you Bring Back?

[Treetotal]

Think that in my childhood they were just called "go-carts".
TY

Go-Carts are different TY as they have pedals and a steering wheel I believe.
Carol

[mare]

Soap box cars were basically the same chassis    they tend to be enclosed from what I have seen at a soap box derby and perhaps modified slightly from the original version.

 

[ThrelfallYorky]

"Go carts" when I was a child - I was never allowed near one - had a sort of moveable pivot for the two front wheels, not really an axle, with rope on either side of the piece of wood they were attached beneath, to steer it with, but never had pedals
TY

[mare]

Same thing then, not the go kart type but a cart that goes  ... yes a single pivot bolt middle  of front board between wheels and guided by rope handle as you say.

[Treetotal]

I never used one as it was a boys thing. I preferred my scooter anyway,
Carol

[brigidmac]

Me and best buddy Mangu

Not the kind of rag doll that was banned !

Not sure where I got the name from .
I also had a black doll .my parents were trying to be progressive .

[Treetotal]

Aw that's lovely photo, thanks for sharing.
Carol

[mare]

I never used one as it was a boys thing. I preferred my scooter anyway,
Carol

  I was a bit of a tomboy at times, we lived rurally and my older brother only had sisters so we did a fair bit together as older sisters did their own thing. Not much paving around home for scooters, second hand bikes though, I was only one to get a brand new one for high school and ordered in as dad was unwell at the time. He helped us with recycling materials to make things like pole stilts and fix boards up in trees and a broomstick between rather high branches as a monkey bar and a rope swing over a gully, sleds for down the grassy hill etc. Happy catching tadpoles or trying to dam up the trickling bit of a creek ...
I had one of the dolls you mentioned CF, with the carved ponytail, small hole for ribbon and 2 for the shafts of the blue eyes to pop in, mum gave most of our few toys to older sister for her children born while I was still in teens. I still have another pedigree doll though with blonde hair, she came under the tree when I was 9 and younger sister got a slightly smaller one with black hair and an exciting and rather flash present for us at the time. By then we had 2 girls living a couple of paddocks away and the younger one of the two used to bring her pedigree dolls in a pram to our place and parents must have felt we were missing out. When I made my wedding dress 50 years ago, I used scraps to make her a dress as well and she was a bit for the bonnet of the car but sat in the back window ... don't see too much of that these days ! 
Our girls quite liked dolls but so many playthings didn't need mine, she is in the company of an older celluloid doll from husband's family 

Love the photo of you Bridget and your Mangu 

[Treetotal]

That's a really lovely story Mare, thanks for sharing.
Carol