Regular identification guide

This is several information to help you to know then your Tonka trucks were built.

DATE LOGO CABS WHEELS HEADLIGHTS
1947 No trucks, only a shovel..  
1948
1949 GMC type. No windscreen. Full metalic rim with rubber tire. No appended headlights.
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954 New cab without windscreen. Hubcaps with 5 round holes and new tire. metal
1955
1956 New grille and bumper. Clear smooth plastic headlight.
1957 The same cab but a scoop is added on hood.
1958 New cab with a windscreen. Clear smooth plastic headlight but smaller than 56-57 models.
1959 Solid hubcaps except "hard worker" models who receive hubcaps with 5 triangular holes. Some models receive whitewall tires.
1960 New design of ribs on the hood.
1961 Similar to 1960 model except the embossed "T" who is now on the center of the bumper.
1962 New cab. And the Jeep is available.
1963 Clear textured plastic headlights.
1964
1965 New conventional cab and new cabover "Turbine". In the middle of 1965, blackwall tyres are stopped.
1966
1967 Solid hubcaps are stopped.
1968 New Dodge-style cab. "Turbine" cab still avaible.
1969
1970 On whitewalls, huge letters.
1971
1972 New blackwall tyre with white letters.
1973 White textured plastic headlights.
1974 White plastic rim with 8 round holes and black tyre with "XR-101" letters.
1975
1976 Dodge-style cab is stopped.

New plastic front panel.

White or yellow plastic rim with 8 round holes and black tyre with "XR-101" letters. chrome-printed headlights.
1977
1978
1979 ... Single piece plastic wheels with printed rims.

 

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