The yellow Tonka Truck. Instantly recognizable by any child of decades past, that big metal beast would always make you popular around the sandbox. There were no blinking lights to dazzle ...

Tonka Trucks were much bigger replicas of contemporary vehicles that put you in the driver's seat long before a license was in your future. Today, these mid-century modern vehicles are still ...

Tonka takes the trucks to tracks and builds a giant playpen for kids and their parents, and all three trucks will be at the last race of the season in Lake Elsinore, California, on October 24 and 25.

That's where Ford unveiled its new F-650 and F-750 medium duty trucks, including this life-size, childhood-dream Tonka dump truck. Who among us hasn't been tempted by the prospect of buying a big ...