Pitchman-A-Go-Go #4

Okay, you're a kid & ya love cars. I'm not sure if Hot Wheels were invented yet, but you're too little for slot cars. What is the answer? TRIK-TRAK!!

Yup, Trik-Trak, it's the cross country road rally that goes everywhere!! The idea is a battery operated car that has no steering. You turn the car on, set it down & aim it at pieces of track. The tracks are curved allowing to 'steer' the car. It even came with a nice cardboard tunnel and scenery for the curves.

You had better be good with your layout, cuz if that car ever got away from you it went careening off the leg of the couch, under the end table, off the edge of the kitchen wall, nicked the kicthen table, hit the fridge and then rocketed down the stairs into the darkness to be eaten by monsters.

It was almost impossible to catch once you got it going. Also, since you set it up on linoleum or hardwood floors, the pieces of track would slip slightly whenever the car it them and then it would miss the next piece of track and then it went careening off the leg of the couch, under the end table, off the edge of the kitchen wall, nicked the kicthen table, hit the fridge and then rocketed down the stairs into the darkness to be eaten by monsters.

This was probably the coolest toy in 1965 that got eaten by monsters. And the car was solid blue, not the cool two-tone job pictured above.