I am impressed that you have kept and respected the old metal by gluing on and fortifying with new plating. Excellent solution and great work!

Absolutely LOVE the fact you have preserved the history of the kids that painted ‘Destroyer’ on the side ; and made it better , carried on their theme of an ‘end of days’ vehicle. My favourite resto ever - well done.

This type of very intricate work requires someone who is very detail oriented, careful, and patient. This vehicle would make a great display piece in an office or study. This is extremely high level restoration. Bravo!

Very impressive work. I remember these, Tonka's answer to "Mad Max/The Road Warrior" If I remember right a figure that looked like Lord Humgous came with some of the trucks. "To survive, you gotta drive....Steel Monsterrrs." That was their commercial slogan. Only saw it once or twice, but it was memorable. Thanks for posting.

Oh boy. This brings back memories of my childhood. I had a whole collection of Tonkas. They were well made and built. Fun time those days.

Your repair videos are so relaxing to watch, they might as well be ASMR webcasts!

I've seen 100 Tonka restorations if I've seen one and this is the hardest I've seen anyone work on one. Wow!

Oh my god!!!! I completely forgot about those!!! Tonka's Steel Monsters. I had the Blaster and the Bomber... Oh man!! I missed those!! My neighbor had other 3!!! I didn't realize I recognized this until you constructed the roof armor... Thank you for bringing back wonderful memories!!!!

I had this truck as a kid, it was awesome! It was a pleasure watching you bring this old thing back to life. Probably one of the best resto vids I've seen. Came out better than when it was new.

I knew there were supposed to be guns on the Destroyer!!! Mine never had them and I got it new as a kid.... Nice work! (Mine does not need restoration, but can use the guns... 😂)

Love the videos. This APC restoration really takes me back to my days as a 31C, Combat Medic, in the USA back in the 1970's. Keep up the good work.

Great resto! Looks better than new! Very nice indeed.

I didn't realise until the end that the lettering was on the original toy. I thought a child had painted it, as we often used to do in those days.

My first time watching your video. Awesome restoration. You put forth a lot of effort to make this come out perfect. I enjoyed what I saw.

That's a hell of a thing. I have some of the action figures Tonka made, but none of the vehicles. I have just ordered one from ebay. Great restoration! Thanks for sharing! 👍👍👍

who are you you brought back many great toys in my years

I'm watching some old videos of your restorations AR and the half track is looking great. I really liked your attention to detail by adding rivets to the driver's canopy, I wouldn't have thought of that. Another great video AR.

watching that rust just being blown away is so satisfying....

In a day of getting this or that, immediately, gets old. Now this is detailed patience and skill! Oddly satisfying!

Strange-looking half-track and don't mind remember them having lunch looking like that

Thought it was a normal truck for minings and carrying loads or some sort of a bulldozer,but damn! When you put it all together it was actually a killing machine! Awesome!

I have one of those still in my attic from the toys I use to play with as a kid

NICE job dude!! Oh yeah, don't forget.....action figure sold separately....

Awesome job on restoration. From trash to treasure for sure.

Using the right tubular rivets was the icing on the perfect cake! Nice work.

Fantastic! I have one of these in a box in the garage, that is only missing the guns and one of the treads. Amazing to see your resto on one that was that far gone. A tip for cutting the plastic, get a variable temperature hot knife. It's easier to make clean straight cuts without all the grinding. But wear a respirator some plastics such as ABS give off toxic fumes when melting.

When you started on the cockpit, I was wondering, "Is it a dump truck, or the goddamn Batmobile?" Turns out to be a little of both.... Very nice work.

Nice work, curiously relaxing.

This is truly a magnificent restoration. But not only that. Refurbishing/repairing the cargo box is marvelous. Manufacturing the armored cabin yourself is fine piece of work. Then reproducing the camouflage stripes and the name "destroyer" is top notch.

Awesome work cleaning it up and keeping its personality! Any kid would be stoked to play with it :)

Wow, such a gentle touch. 🙂

I wanted those as a kid but did not have them, forgot about these until I saw the video. Very cool, I guess I’ll be searching eBay now.

Excellent work! Looks like this project was quite a lot of work, but you pulled it off wonderfully!

Great video on the tear down, and rebuild.

I had one of these!!! So cool to see it restored.

Half Track the part tank part truck mash together. This vehicle I personally like.

That's so cool 😎,I love half-tracks,especially when they have a couple of. 50 caliber machine guns mounted in a back & a flame thrower mounted in the back of them & it would've looked badass if you would've painted it black for Zombie attacks

excellent work! the most impressive part has to be the writings, wow! building the plastic cabin shows great dedication. this piece must be quite rare, and I had totally forgotten about it. honestly, I miss Tonkas, they re a part of America s history. they should have included figures waaay before this era. I was surprised that you found the guns and figure. it s funny how many toys act as prototypes of concepts. a half track dump truck for instance, quite cool! if I get my money, I ll be on the look out for a 50s piece for sure. they still look awesome as classic deco. as other comments, I agree that looking at you work is relaxing and satisfying. if you get bored, maybe picking a common piece could be funny converted as a mad Max 100% your artistic flair creation. keeping the rust and holes, adding spikes and chains. you have my total confidence, lol. good work!

Que buenos talentos de restauracion tonka de la persona dios lo bendiga cost.rica

*_I have watched many of this kind videos but honestly this one was more perfect and in detail_*

MAGNIFIQUE TRAVAIL DE RESTORATION ET DE CREATION

I am officially blown away by this true restoration! I would not have known what bumper pieces were missing. And the big load of body restoration made my head hurt!

Que buen trabajo de restauración de un gran camión de guerra 👏 👌 se queda excelente de 10 muy bueno 👏 me ha gustado 👍 m gusta mucho tus restauraciones. Saludos 🤗

Yes!!! Been waiting for Someone with your talent to tackle a vehicle from this series!! Hope you consider doing another one

mom got that for me from sears, when I was a kid. it was my favorite toy. great job.

Beautiful restoration

La marca Tonka es excelente, en mi infancia por los años '70 tuve un camión grúa que era casi indestructibe que hasta ahora no recuerdo cual fué su destino pero ojalá que la tuviese en la actualidad para restaurarla, colocarla de adorno y conservarla hasta quien sabe si a eternidad. Saludos y gracias por traerme tan gratos recuerdos.

Ton of work and looks brand new!

The teardown was intense.. another masterpiece my friend

Awesome job! One of my favorite toys as a kid! I still have it and the black Chevy pickup I think it was called Blaster!

I had one of those when they they were new... damn but they were fun.

Wow, this bought back memories, I had this and the black pickup truck one too, love to use these with my GI Joes back in the 80s, fantastic job.

I love the v bug but this may top that one. Love the big truck!❤

that's the kind of toy I dreamed of having when I was growing up in the 40's

Too Cool! ❤

I had a dump truck a grader and a loader that survived, never had parts I could take apart lol! Ended up selling them to some collector

Amazing job!!! I wonder if CLR might have helped get the rust stains off the plastic parts… 🤔

That turned out bad ass. Great job

Had one of these was perfect for GI Joe

A restauração ficou show. cagou no final com estes letreiro e pintura branca

This artist job! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Awesome job! Looks fantastic!

Wow never seen anything like that. Great job

Excellent restoration and you did a masterful job doing it!! Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Excellent job 👍👍

Truly outstanding my friend!! 😎✌️

I like it,something different would seem to be not a common tonka toy.your killing it as always.just keep doing what your thinking 🤔 and what you gonna be doing.impressive restoration 👍👍👍😎😎😎

Reeaally glad I watched this one back. Excellent result dude. Great work on the cab 👏👏👏. New sub right here brother 👉👉👉. 😎

Now that's a frame off restoration! Wow. 💯 👌 😍

Fantastic restoration job! I would have gone with dark grey and matt black and no graffiti, but that's not my call.

Well done. Thank you

Most toy restoration videos are of much older items, so it was great to see something that I remembered (even though I did not have this particular toy). I also love the fabrication of replacement parts such as the cab and some of the front grill. Excellent work!

If you want to restore, AND make tracks like that flexible again, get some 303 Aerospace Protectant and soak them in it. The longer the better.

Excelent job!!! Congrats!! I own that Destroyer, and it is an excelent toy

Yet another model that Tonka made that I didn't know existed.

Awesome restoration

Very cool restoration. I love it. ~Kevin

That high-pitched, shrill screeching from the drills isn’t quite the ASMR experience I’m craving, as a rule… But your work is nice and I respect your methods. 🙂 Jus' sayin'…

That's a lot of work but! I would love to have that toy.

It's not bad at all, I liked how it was restored, but I would have painted it military green🤔😅🤩😍👍.

Excellent job. Congratulation. Luiz Paulo - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

Well Done ? NO! Very Well Done!!

Mad Max- Beyond Tonkadome!

Great job on that love your work

Really nice 🙂,

Another ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐restoration! This one was quite different from the others I have seen so far. There were a lot of parts, with a mix of metal and plastic. I'm sure this one took a lot longer than most, especially when you had to fill in the pitted metal, or fabricate replacement parts that had unintentional holes through the metal. You did a fantastic job!

Nice one ☝️

Never seen this model Tonka truck. Also the chassis doesn't look like any other Tonka chassis I've seen in other videos.

Vraiment un jeu de gars!

Is this an Tonka wow! I didn't knew Tonka made this model. But awesome job on it as New! Zombie proof🤣

Super, skvělá práce

Part of the Steel Monsters ( mad max inspired ) series. Amazing how rusty it is considering it is from the late 80's.

Great platform to restore.

Right up until the end I was expecting Tonka yellow, instead, it looks right at home in Mad Max (which may not have been a coincidence). Had to Google it to see what was going on.

Just a bit of advice from a very old metal fabricator, when drilling into steel (of any kind) slow is better than fast, when you hear that squealing sound the drill bit is not cutting it’s literally bouncing up & down off the material, the opposite is true of aluminum, faster is better! Just sayin🤷

I like it really nice job except for the blasted adds

Looks very close to the vehicle from rescuers down under

Beautiful work! I loved Steel Monsters when I was a kid. So glad to see one restored! Where did you get the replacement guns???

That was fun!

Классно 😎👍👍👍