Vintage set of the week: Wheels and Tyres
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 936 Wheels and Tyres, released during 1973. It's one of 12 Basic sets produced that year. It contains 20 pieces.
It's owned by 129 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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What a day on Brickset, eh?
Wheels, poop and tyres.
Good times.
So of the parts available in 1973, I wonder how accurately you could replicate that Tractor on the box...
Well, crap, I’m suddenly feeling wheelie tired.
@MCLegoboy:
I’m fairly decent with a pair of scissors, but I’d need to use a straightedge to draw the lines. Got some vintage boxes you’d be willing to donate to the cause?
I had 314-2 exactly 10 years previously, when wheels really were big news... a bit old hat by '73!
I don't see any ancient cities here.
@Zordboy said:
"What a day on Brickset, eh?
Wheels, poop and tyres.
Good times."
Agreed. We may look back on this day as the best random part/vintage set combination ever. Savour the moment.
@Zordboy said:
"What a day on Brickset, eh?
Wheels, poop and tyres.
Good times."
Agreed. We may look back on this day as the best random part/vintage set combination ever. Savour the moment.
Is that box really from 1973? It looks really modern. I guess style has wrapped around in 50 years
You see wheels without tyres all the time. Now a tyre without wheels? Unless you're hanging it from a tree that's madness!
@anthony_davies said:
" @Zordboy said:
"What a day on Brickset, eh?
Wheels, poop and tyres.
Good times."
Agreed. We may look back on this day as the best random part/vintage set combination ever. Savour the moment.
"
We may see that, but it'll never beat rsotd my dad.
@GSR_MataNui:
You’ve never seen a fire turned into a flower planter? When I was a kid, we had one that served as a sandbox. Bruce Wayne trained with one in Batman V Superman. There’s Bibendum (the Michelin Man). They’re a perennial favorite of obstacle courses. The go-kart track outside of my home town lined the edges of the raceway with them. Cartoon villains have regularly been left for cops to collect with a tire jammed down over their torso, pinning their arms to their sides. They don’t arrive pre-rimmed to the tire store. In my state, they cut out the sidewalls of spent truck tires to weight down the Michigan state shrub (it’s got orange and white reflective stripes these days, used to have blinking lights bolted to the handle, and is most commonly found growing on any paved surface during warm weather). Our national parks shred them to turn into cushy walkways, in a sometimes vain attempt to keep people from straying off said walkways. And of course you don’t leave the rims on when you throw them into the local tire fire.
That drawing is wonderfully simple and creative. Loved it...
I had these wheels and tyres back in the day but can’t remember if I had this set or if they came in another set. Seem to recall that the integral pins/axles were metal.
Ah...the 'good ol' days' of Lego using metal axels...kinda' miss 'em.:)
Ah was this the start of Lego’s tyre production empire?
Another VSOTW set I have (sealed) - batting 11 of 26 so far.
I have a heap of those large studded wheels, they seem to turn up in nearly every vintage Lego bulk lot I bought.
That tractor looks like quite a specialised part.
We're on a roll today! Not even poo can stop us!
@WizardOfOss:
You mean fertilizer?
@PurpleDave said:
"You mean fertilizer?"
Nah, the smelly kind that is considered foodstuff by Lego....
It's the roll-roll, now you must build the pött-pött.
@Be_hapi said:
" @anthony_davies said:
" @Zordboy said:
"What a day on Brickset, eh?
Wheels, poop and tyres.
Good times."
Agreed. We may look back on this day as the best random part/vintage set combination ever. Savour the moment.
"
We may see that, but it'll never beat rsotd my dad."
He's not your real father.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So of the parts available in 1973, I wonder how accurately you could replicate that Tractor on the box..."
Pretty well with 378: Tractor
@TeriXeri said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So of the parts available in 1973, I wonder how accurately you could replicate that Tractor on the box..."
Pretty well with 378: Tractor"
:O
@PDelahanty said: "He's not your real father."
I would hope not, given that he was a horrifying eldritch abomination.
@PDelahanty said:
" @Be_hapi said:
" @anthony_davies said:
" @Zordboy said:
"What a day on Brickset, eh?
Wheels, poop and tyres.
Good times."
Agreed. We may look back on this day as the best random part/vintage set combination ever. Savour the moment.
"
We may see that, but it'll never beat rsotd my dad."
He's not your real father."
No, that would be Darth Vader of course.
Great packaging (l'm a Graphic Designer).
It's from my era - I was 13 when released.