1970s Remote-Control Flower-Power Wheelie Dune-Buggy
This Remco “Beachcomber” Dune Buggy Wheelies Pick-Up motorized with corded remote control was at my grandparents house for me to play with whenever I visited. A few years ago Grandma gave it to me. I’m glad she did because she has a bad habit of throwing stuff out. I never did like the “flower power” aspect to this toy, but I sure loved playing with it. It turns, goes forward and backward, sports a surf board, has authentic “mod” dune buggy styling, and best of all, it does wheelies. The box says 1971, but the car says 1970.
14 Responses “1970s Remote-Control Flower-Power Wheelie Dune-Buggy”
Wow! This buggy is totally cool!! My 2 year old son would love this!! I drive a Nissan Cube in a similar shade of blue and any toy that’s square and blue he goes crazy about!!
I love all of your retro stuff…I remember having these great toys, back when toys were still cool! Love this buggy, perfect for Barbie and Ken.
didnt they make a different one also, such as a dune buggy and not a truck type? i want to buy the dune buggy type, i remember(vagely) playing with one as a kid! lots of memories with it.
I don’t think Remco made any other one, but perhaps someone did.
Blast from the past and so on and so forth. You probably got bored of playing this after a short while right. I also had some kind of toy like this like the long wired but it was of a military airplay that could supposedly fly or at least I thought it could, I tried it by pressing the button it made a sound of lift-off and I was filled with excitement but then of course after waiting some time didn’t work, oh well
. Anyway interesting post, take care.
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Yes, they did make a classic dune buggy body version. My little brother had one. That’s the one I want too.
they made a white van with a red surfboard too…
Dave, really? I had no idea, I’ve never seen one that color.
I have my origional which has white body and surf board with green body and red bottom with a large controler with 3-D batteries. Wondering what the value is. Any idea?
Gary you have pictures of it, does it still work? If its the dunebuggy one, I’ll give you $$ for it. I don’t care if It’s worth 10dollars, I got a number in my head that it’s worth to me for sentimental reasons.
I had one of these back in 1970.
In case anyone is interested, the mechanism for performing the
wheelies was a large ball bearing inside the “surfboard” which
would roll backward when the car accelerated quickly forward,
causing the car to tip up onto its rear wheels.
I found this out empirically after I, uh, had grown tired of the toy.
Oh Mike, I knew that cause you can always hear it rolling around in there.
i came across one of these myself its green and still in the box.
Tanya, I’d love to see some pictures of it.