The TycoPro "Prototype Museum"
---featuring the Pat Dennis "prototype" collection...what was
saved from back in the day and stories behind the items...
Here is the Comprehensive History of the TycoPro...(in
case you arrived here from an external link)
More about the Brass Wars HO Scale era
and...if you are now inspired to get your TycoPro back on the track, hereare
some articles to help get things back up to speed...
----HO Mini Mod--Long Pans from Car
Model Magazine August 1972
----Using the AJ's brass pan handling kit...page
1 page 2 page
3
----for the more adventuresome...3
TycoPro mods for "modern" racing
----for those that want a lil' magnet with their Tycopro HO.....go
here... the G-Pro
---What might have been.....the Tyco MK-II page 1 page 2 page 3
RiggenHO published a collector's newsletter from 2005 until 2010
see all the back issues of the Newsletter here....
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Click on the following links for more details and photos of
each item.....
Godzilla Car
Number One Magnet Car Jose
Rodriguez Project
Wide Funny Bugs...
Project Formula 1 Upside
Down T Jet Parts and
Projects Decals Race
Set Archive
TycoPro patent Salesman
Tie Clips Wiper Adjustment Tool...
Die Cast Drop Arm
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Here are "opening shots" for the items in the Collection.
Godzilla...The ORIGINAL TycoPro prototype, now in
dragster form...
Wiper Adjustment Tool.....how to get a really good guide flag shape! Check those tires....neat lettering!
Car Number ONE ...made up from a chassis from the very
1st shipment of chassis's, with the first mask painted sample body (hand decalled
by Pat Dennis) and, as this was the first car down the packing line, so this
is literally JOB ONE....
Magnet Car Prototype...it became obvious that magnets
were the future...this was the TycoPro team's first "look"
Funny Bugs......
Project Wide (this section includes all three
parts of the original Car Model Magazine articles)
An "upside down" T Jet concept
"Parts and Projects"...motor samples,
crown gear #1,
Salesman Tie Clip..... and also learn how the Toy
Fairs worked....
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Additional Items and Links for collector consideration....
(your photos and stories welcome, please contribute!!!!)
TycoPro
Rarity Guide -- subjective rankings, subject to change. Also has pictures
of many varitaions....
(variation Ferrari, distinct ORANGE and unusual rear window
detail) (rb)
Ford '40 Proto (rb) (more photos here...)
Possible Prototype
Dunebuggy (js)
Possible Prototype
Supermodified, and chassis
(js)
TycoPro Carrying Case (tough
item for collectors to find) (js)
TycoS to TycoPro transition
set (js)
Iso Grifo color variations????
(rb)
TycoPro EARLY display
and side view
(js)
TycoPro promotional display
(js)
