Toy Tuesday: Fiat 500 Abarth
These pages have featured Fiat’s first offering in the United States since abandoning the market nearly 30 years ago – but not the anticipated Abarth version. Yet.
Fortunately, today the wait is over.
Toy Tuesday: 1992 Honda Civic
Used to be, the Fifth Generation Honda Civic was as common as Bott’s Dots on an LA freeway. A couple of decades of hard commuting miles, unsympathetic secondary market buyers and rust have reduced their numbers significantly. The ones that remain are likely to be fitted with fart-can exhausts and stick-on vents from Pep Boys – so unless you’re in to that sort of thing, potential Civic shoppers looking for a nice example have been mostly out of luck.
Until now.
Toy Tuesday: Paper Golf
Welcome to another Toy Tuesday at Hatchtopia. Today, we’ll be looking at something that will probably be a bit advanced for your typical hatchback-enthusiast child… who are we fooling – all of the previous toys have been strictly for grown-ups anyway.
Do you enjoy Exacto Knives? The attendant slices in your finger tips? The smell of aviation fuel glue? Have I got a little project for you – a paper Volkswagen Golf.
Toy Tuesday: Datsun 240Z
I’ve decided to make Toy Tuesday a semi-regular feature here at Hatchtopia. Why? Because it’s fun. This particular ride is a hyper-realistic version of the 1st Generation Datsun Z, rolling on a 390 millimeter wheelbase. I think you’ll agree that the detail on this car is very impressive at any size.
Toy Tuesday: Lego Hatchback
By now, everyone knows of my love for Hatchbacks. Some of you may know of my love of Legos. My collection started when I was about 4 and developed to the point that by age 12, I had enough Lego cars, buildings, minifigs (the people) and accessories to create a pretty sizable town that I had laid out on a 4×8 sheet of plywood supported by sawhorses in the basement. It was there that I became an Urban Planner – my current career. That emphasis on the layout of the town and the buildings within was probably why I never developed too many detailed car models. I did have a fleet of various cars that populated my table-town, but they were mostly mass-produced: either copies of retail models, or variations on a couple of my own standard designs. But one thing was common, the design had to fit on the roads in my town.
It was that road-width issue that kept me from branching out too far like the creator of today’s feature.
