My 6 favorite toys of all times

BB Gun with removable sites
Although I can't swear to it, I believe I had the Daisy rifle model number 499. I received it for my 12th birthday and I remember it came with a shoulder strap and adjustable/removable front sites. There were a couple (maybe 3 or 4) sites that could be interchanged on the front of the gun. Even though I am sure that increased the accuracy of the rifle, I'm not sure it helped me a whole lot. I did spend a lot of days practicing, though.Definitely, one of those things I wished I would have kept.

Hot Wheels Mongoose track
I received this toy in the late 60s or early 70s. It was the perfect idea for an inside race track. The kit came with two sets of tracks -- and with a set of loops. Part of the reason it was such a great toy was it came with two plastic C-Clamps. These clamps could be attached to furniture or window seals and not damage the wood (although I'm sure there was some indentation). But this made the track very portable and you could set the starting point of the track as high as gravity would allow. Of course, when you're young it was a thrill to watch a car go through a loop and be upside down. The track was also very expandable. It had red connectors for the track so the more of them you had the longer your race track would be,

Battery operated 'electric saw'
I have Googled these trying to find an image, but have had no luck. I would love to know who made them and what they were called. There was actually several of these tools. I had a router and a handsaw. I'm sure the tools would be banned today. As I remember it they were marketed as tools to cut styrofoam-- at least that's what I used them for. The tools ran off of battery power. They came in a yellowish carrying case, one per tool. The case had a small jack -- kind of like an earbud jack -- that you inserted the tool's power cord into. I can't remember anymore, but they probably ran off of a 9 volt battery.

Farmall tractor with accessories
This was a red tractor made by Ertl. I had a hay baler (before bales were round), a plow, a disc, and a hopper wagon. The wagon had a small door on it that could be opened (by a rotating handle I think). This was a toy that force a child to be imaginative. I sat for hours on the living room floor plowing and discing field. I found the haybaler at a garage sale.

Topps baseball cards
Technically, I guess, these are not toys. But when I was a kid they were. We did not collect them in the sense they are collected today. I always tried to get a complete team of the Reds (this is when they were the Big Red Machine). My cards were held together with rubber bands and sorted by teams. I would trade cards with my cousins to complete my sets. The packs -- only Topps then -- had 10 in a pack and the piece of gum. I still remember all those cards like Pete Rose, Johnny Bench -- and even non-Reds like Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey and Rod Carew.

20-inch bike with banana seat
I never owned a new bike asa a kid, so I became very skilled at piecing together a bike from several bikes. My favorite was a 20-inch bike with a 'slick' tire on the back. I had a banana seat and Y handlebar tilted forward as far as possible. My two cousins and I would take our bikes and jump ramps. The ramps were homemade boards -- usually some pine barn siding. The boards were angled up by placing a heavy block (or blocks) of wood underneath them. We would spend hours trying to one-up each other. Surprisingly, none of us were ever seriously hurt trying to be Evel Knievel.