Tonka Restoration - 1976 Mighty Tonka Dual Boom Wrecker Restored

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The perfect Tonka Restoration! This is a 1976 Mighty Tonka Dual Boom Wrecker. This Tonka was pretty trashed when I got it, but for just $45 on Ebay, I had to have it!

The restoration started with a basic tear down. Luckily I didn't run in to any issues. Unless you count the petrified spider I found hiding behind the front grill!

Tonka Trucks were all lead free so there was no need to test for lead paint, so off to the sandblast cabinet we went! The mighty Tonka trucks were pretty big and this thing had a ton of surface area to clean, that in addition to some substantial surface rust, this project had about 8 hours worth of sand blasting! Well, technically 80-grit glass bead media.

I little cleaning and polishing the plastic and metal parts and it was on to the fun stuff!

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Now that every part has been restored, there were a few missing and broken parts that had to be dealt with. Luckily you can find anything on Ebay! $25 later I had a new windshiled, tow hooks, and decals, and this thing was ready to be re-assembled!

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