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 Posted - December 09 2007 : 12:30:16 PM
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Here are 4 of my Life-Like billboard cars. Doritos-Tootsie Roll( commercial=Everything i see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me----)--Champion Spark Plug and The Black & Decker from the late 70's. All are mint
Original Tootsie roll car 40 ft (added 2-10-08)
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Posted - December 09 2007 : 6:12:36 PM
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Really strong graphics, nice stuff.
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Posted - August 09 2008 : 6:14:45 PM
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I know this is an older post but I have a question for other Life Like fans.
I just received a Life Like Fruit Loops 40' boxcar yesterday.
It has the original box with a pasted on LL label.
This car is mounted on a Varney chassis with sprung trucks,and body mounted couplers.
Is this the way it came from the factory?
I know LL took over Varney in the late 60's,could this be a transition car?
Also do any of you know when this car was made?
Thanks so much,
Carl T.
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Posted - August 09 2008 : 11:10:11 PM
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Carl--here is a photo of my FrootLoops car. It is standard Life-Like issue--snap in trucks and plastic underframe. Made in Hong Kong
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Posted - August 10 2008 : 12:32:01 AM
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Hey Brian,
The one I have has no black roof,and black snap in door guides.
Could this be an earlier release?
Carl T.
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Posted - August 10 2008 : 03:05:13 AM
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Hi Choochin3,
I have one with the red roof, black snap in trucks and the black door guides. It says Life Like made in Hong Kong on the bottom. seems like alot of variations on this one.
Mike
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Posted - August 10 2008 : 11:46:07 AM
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I'm willing to bet that whoever painted the grab irons on that one, also painted the roof.
I used to have one of these; it had the separate door tracks and standard Life-Like chassis and trucks. And a pink roof.
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Posted - August 11 2008 : 10:33:48 PM
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G-I-C I paid no attention to the painted ladder until reading your reply. It is done in Sharpie marker as the other side is color of car. Roof is not painted by individual. It appears factory as the ends of car are same color. I have noticed on some other 2 tone life like cars that the colors are not to even along lines--Cheap chinese labor of the day?
Carl--I would say there are many variations of this. I am not too familiar with life-like as when i was younger--The Tyco packaging always drew me away from them and Bachmanns packaging of the late seveties and early eighties--that horrible Yellow packaging. Life-like was definitly much better
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Posted - February 28 2009 : 10:12:04 AM
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 would LOVE these in my collection except the long Tootsie Roll car as I already got one 
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 Posted - September 29 2024 : 12:09:54 PM
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Doritos car is nice. As well as its chips.
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Posted - September 29 2024 : 1:29:32 PM
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quote:
cancel that request
I got all now
heck I did use that Doritos & a Pepsi boxcar by Tyco to win a $100 LL Bean gift card from that Pepsi Summer Sweepstakes 
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Posted - October 02 2024 : 8:20:26 PM
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My Doritos car. I bought it last year but I forgot to post it until now.
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