Lucky bastage, I remember wanting one of those but not getting it.
My brothers and I also had Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars and some track. It was always fun to see if you could get your car to go around the loop. We even had demolition derbies with them - we'd push a couple of cars across the floor as hard as we could so that they would collide head on, and whoever's car didn't flip over won. That stopped after we found out that my Hot Wheels Rolls Royce Gray Ghost was undefeatable.
I did like putting together plastic scale models of cars and things. I probably still have the model of a NASCAR Thunderbird I put together, I think the actual car was driven by Cale Yarborough. The model most likely isn't in that good of shape any more, though.
Did you ever give your bike a nickname? I had a big heavy steel frame one speed bike with a coaster brake back in the day. I nicknamed it "Big Gray Ouch" in honor of the rash I got on my ankle thanks to it being in contact with the chain when I rode the bike down the big hill for the first time.
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