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Green Machine
by Marx
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This memory was added on: December 30,2005
By far the baddest machine in the neighborhood! Kids would tremble at the sight of my Green Machine as we slowly cruised the neighborhood, sniffing the air like a predator stalking the herd, hoping to run-down and feast on an unsuspecting Big Wheel.
My Green beast was never bested.
And it never went hungry.
Chase
1966
This memory was added on: December 25,2005
Hahaha! I congratulate you and thank you very much for this flashback!!!!!!!! just yesterday (Dec 24th) I was remembering my best Xmas gift I've ever got from Santa: the máquina verde. I was urging to see it again, as it is sticked strongly in my memory!!! It was the best of the best: we were five kids with máquina verde at the same time in my neighborhood, feeling like a "grown-ups flying squadron". Some of us even used to wear black sunglasses... Kids with bikes were not as cool as us!!! we used to drive in our neighborhood, all together, listening to the roar of the plastic wheels against the asfalt carpet, skiding widely to park the maquinas verdes in front of the house of someone's house to stop by and drink lemonade (as we were for sure in a hard mission to accomplish). I can't remember what happened to mine... I saw recently a new and trendy version of "super látigo"... and remebered máquina verde as well... if someone does something similar with maquina verde, I'll buy it for sure!! Best regards and thank you for the memory, Carlos
Carlos Gutiérrez
1968
jcarlos@apporta.com.mx
This memory was added on: December 25,2005
Wow! I've just saw the newest Máquina Verde in the web page!!! well, my wish come true. I'm buying it!
Carlos Gutiérrez
1968
jcarlos@apporta.com.mx
This memory was added on: December 21,2005
I remember seeing the commercial thousands of times, begging my parents for it, and then finally getting it...either for my birthday or Christmas (I don't remember which). (I can still remember parts of the song on the commercial, too.) As a group of friends on the block, we all had Big Wheels and used to drive around on the sidewalks and in driveways and play "smash up derby". Harmless stuff, and I was the only kid on the block to have a Green Machine, which gave me an distinct advantage. The ability to pull alongside someone on a Big Wheel and slide my wheel out to hopefully knock the opponent off the sidewalk and into the bushes....those were the days!
Mike, now in San Diego
1969
This memory was added on: December 15,2005
I didn't have one of these, but I remember that there was a little boy on my block that did..he even let me ride once or twice. This really brings back the ole' memories!
Michelle
1973
butterfly73v@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: November 25,2005
I got a green machine in 1970. I was spoiled rotten an still am. Rode the heck out of the Green Machine. Use to terroize everbody with it. I should be Dale Earnhardt. I love my Dad, Homer Moffet.
Gene Moffat
1969
This memory was added on: November 2,2005
The green machine... this was actually my brother's toy but I think me and my friends had so much more fun on it than he ever did... spinning out up and down the street... We made so many left turn spins it started leaning to one side... I seen that Toy's R Us still sells these or at least did last year (not the original of course but what fun for the current generation)
Tracy
1971
scizrhappy@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: October 23,2005
when my favorite toy in the whole wide world got the handles chewed off by my st bernards i realized where not to park my toys.
mark maxson
1969
markmaxson@sbcglobal.net
This memory was added on: September 30,2005
an update - I saw one of these u-locked to a street sign in Chicago last year. oh, the humanity, to submit this magnificent vehicle to such a fate!
Carter
1971
carter@keepgoing.org
This memory was added on: September 10,2005
My absolute favorite toy...I got my Green Machine for my 6th birthday (June 1976), Mom took me to Litchfields Toy Store, Glendale (back when they had stores other than TrU). I remember, it was so expensive, $60.00 in 1976 was like a hundred something now..well I drove that thing into the ground, first the seat could not be mounted again, so orange shag carpet was installed to cushion my tush..well it lasted me until I was 11, and after many repairs, the wheels wore completely through..at 35 I have another original Green Machine, for which I am trying to restore for my son, who is 4 today 09/10/05. By far the best toy investment my mom ever made for me. As for the new ones, well I guess they are not too bad.
Patti Koyshman
1970
koyshman@charter.net
This memory was added on: August 13,2005
I have an original green machine made by Marx toys from around 1972 . It is still in the box and has never been assembled. I found it at a family run hardware store that had it in a loft, it was actual unsold inventory. Even the box is in pretty good condition. If anybody is interested I may be willing to sell to best offer email jimlovesana@msn.com
jim mcgraw
1962
jimlovesana@msn.com
This memory was added on: August 13,2005
Dang I cant believe it its the Green Machine I never had one but my friends in Long Beach did, in 1980. The Green Machine was the next best thing to the Big Wheel. Talk about memories I wish I could go back in time and buy one and just ride it all day with a Bomb Pop.
Michael E. Bangham
09/02/1972
E mperorGala@msn.com
This memory was added on: July 26,2005
I was King of the Block!!!! I was King of the neiborhood!!!! Nobody beat me in a race!!!! Spin outs were awesome!!!! I remember crying to my mother that I wanted a big wheel. Then one day when I was around 7 years old my father bought me the best gift ever. He told me the store did not have any big wheels left and that the green machine was supposed to be the next best toy. Nobody new then that it was going to kick the big wheels but. I destroyed it after about 1 year. Best year of my life.
Michael
1971
This memory was added on: July 13,2005
My best friend got a Big Wheel when we were 4 yr old. When we were 5, he got a Green Machine, and I was stuck with the Big Wheel with holes in the tires. But the BW still cornered better than the GM!
Tony
1967
This memory was added on: July 8,2005
My mom bought me the Green Machine for Xmas 1978 as well. I was the baddest kid on the planet, let alone the block! Unfortunately I broke the seat on it and my mom told me she ordered a new one. So everyday I sat and waited for the mail man to bring my seat, but he never brought one. I believe that's what they call a little white lie. Thanks mom.
Jump ahead 26 years to the Christmas of 2004. My mom had the idea of doing a "retro Christmas", where she would get us kids some gifts from our past. I never imagined that they would re-invent the Green Machine and my mom would buy one for me! If this isn't the coolest present in the world, I don't know what is! Much to my (very) slight envy, she bought one for my nephew as well. Surely you can understand the situation - I now have to share the coolest kid on the planet title with someone - unprecedented! Well, it wasn't long before my best friend's mom bought one of his son (her grandson, who is my nephews age) and now the 3 of us go riding together! My mom even went as far to get us shirts stating the Green Machine Club, and on the back of it my title says "Prez" and my newphew's is "VP". We're just having so much fun with this whole thing!
Also, I am expecting the arrival of a baby boy in a few weeks and I plan on getting one for him on his birth day. I'm guessing not many families can say they have a 2nd generation Green Machiner! So he might have to wait 5 years to use it, but there is always the risk of them dicontinuing it. Better safe than sorry.
PS - I plan on purchasing a replacement seat BEFORE it breaks! And wheels too.
Matt Klausner
1973
mklawz@Hotmail.com
This memory was added on: June 11,2005
BACK IN 1980 I INHERITED MY OLDER BROTHER'S GREEN MACHINE. A SUMMER DAY IN MEADOW WOOD SUB DIVISION CONSISTED OF: 8AM EAT BREAKFAST, 830AM WATCH CARTOONS, 10AM GO JUMP ON THE GREEN MACHINE, 12PM EAT LUNCH, 1PM WATCH GOLDAR KICK BUTT ON THE SPACE GIANTS, AROUND 2PM GET EVERYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOGETHER FOR THE CORN STALK AND DIRT CLOD WAR IN A FIELD NEARBY, SOMETIMES EVEN GUMBALL (FROM A GUM TREE) OR ROCK FIGHTS. WE EVEN WENT AS FAR AS BB GUN WARS. THAT'S THE THING, IF KIDS TODAY WOULD GET OUT AND HURT OR MAME EACH OTHER AT A EARLY AGE AND REALIZE HOW MUCH IT HURTS, THERE WOULD'T BE AS MUCH VIOLENCE OR KILLING TODAY. JUST 33 YEAR OLD MEN WITH SCARS OR BB'S LODGED UNDER THEIR SKIN.
KEITH
1972
bozjake@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: May 27,2005
OK...I didn't have the Green Machine or even the Big Wheel. By the time those came out I was already on my Stingray (the Stingray is a whole other story!) What I did have however, was a machine that the Green Machine was patterned (or stolen) from. I'm not so sure of the actual name of it but it had a Va-rooom engine in it. I called the machine itself Va-rooom (might possibly have been it's name regardless). It was around 1966 or '67...I was about 4 years old. The thing was huge, loud, heavy, with rear wheel steering, and a single joystick for steering control. It was ALL metal with solid steel wheels with solid rubber tires on them. I remember it was painted kind of a metallic silver-blue. I lived in southern California at the time at the bottom of a HUUUGE hill.....the memories have shaped my life. Not only are my leg muscles like body builder huge, but I have been riding motorcycles since my first dirt bike at around age 7. Once the thrill of riding something like that gets in your blood you can't do anything but graduate to a loud, heavy steel machine that is made for adults (love my Harley! have had 7 so far!)In fact I don't even own a car, it just won't do....I became totally addicted at age 4! My Mom tells me that the neighbors cheered the day the Va-rooom engine in that thing stopped working! It didn't stop me from riding it, though! Does anyone else have a memory of the pre-Big Wheel Va-rooom??
Mojo
1963
Mojothing_2000@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: May 24,2005
It ruled our small corner of the universe. Nothing was better than spinning out at top speed into the legs of my best pal and then watching fall to the pavement and cry.
Me
1968
me@me.net
This memory was added on: May 23,2005
The Green machine was the envy of the neighborhood. My brother and I actually had the Bat-Mobile. We alway were at the house that had the hilliest driveway with the smoothest concrete.
tami
1971
tamisweetie@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: May 17,2005
I would trade in my Wife for a Green Machine made for Adults. When I had the original...I rode it more then I walked. The front tire eventually looked like a stop sign. I eventually retired my Green Machine. I dismantled it and used the back tires on my Little Rascal wanna be go cart. I like the old style also...regardless my children will have one.
Greg
1971
fop141@comcast.net
This memory was added on: May 3,2005
I had the original Marx version. I like the design much better than the Huffy. Of course, as a kid, I would not have known the difference. I think I could still fit on one and would love to take one for a SPIN...
They don't make toys like they used to... Glad to know that others love the toy and probably miss it as much as I do. Long live the Green Machine !
Vicki
1974
texmgb77@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: April 20,2005
I was the guy who couldn't get around Frank on the sidewalk. Mom thought the Big Wheel was "just as good" as a Green Machine and refused to buy me one. Fast forward to 1998 and I found one at a garage sale for $3.00. I immediately went to the nearest school, pulled it out of the trunk and rode around the parking lot. My knees were aching and I looked like a complete fool but the satisfaction of finally having my Green Machine outweighed any embarassment. Now my kids ride it and I will be saving it for their kids.
James
1970
This memory was added on: April 19,2005
I remember when I had one. It was great. Could do spin outs better then any other Big Sheel. Racing it was also great, rear wheels took up the whole sidewalk. No one could get past me. The new one with th metal frame looks like, but still doesn't match the original.
Frank
1968
This memory was added on: April 12,2005
Me and my green machine were the envy of all the other kids with their red, yellow, and blue big wheels in my nieghborhood.
Audwynn
1971
bass5319@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: March 26,2005
I remember my Green Machine... that thing was the king of the neighborhood... plastic wheels and all... it's too bad Big Wheels and Green Machines had those cheap wheels back then.. they would have lasted much longer.. but I guess that's the idea... at least a rubber front wheel for better traction... keep the plastic rears for sliding... they shold have made replacement wheels too... but I'm dreaming
Does anyone remember that other wheeld toy that looked like a wheelchair... it was circular... low to the ground...and had two large wheels on either side that you sat between and cranked with handles and you could spin in circles or jet down the street?
Jimmy
1967
Jlouis@design-theory.com
This memory was added on: March 22,2005
My Green Machine corwned me absolute king of the crescent. There was no way my best buddy's Big Wheel could compete with GM's adjustable seat, radical steering and oversized wheel base (ginving it the much-needed stability when you reefed on the steering handles at 50 miles per hour). Our crescent was on a hill, so I sould make that baby scream before hitting my neighbour's immaculately black-coated driveway for a 180 that could almost induce a black-out from the G forces. The best skids occured right after a good rain, so the neighbour's driveway was super-slippery! I always prefered to spin-out to the left, so the Machine started to tilt to the left over time, even when driving straight. Eventually the left side of the front tire wore out, leaving holes that all Dad's electrical tape couldn't cover. Sigh...
kenny
1970
This memory was added on: March 18,2005
i am a mexican but here he call "maquina verde plastimarx" ist a great toy thousans hours playing with is
jerry
garyfolk@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: March 15,2005
I broke the dang thing after the first week! It was the best christmass gift ever!
Scott
1971
This memory was added on: March 7,2005
I must have been about 4 or 5. Lived in the country. lots of twisting, turning STEEP hills in our neighbourhood. My older cousin would come to visit and have that green machine rolling at what seemed like 500 mph. He would be having the greatest time with the machine, I on the other hand was always sort of intimidated by the size of it. Anywyas one day I figured if he could do it, it couldn't be that hard!. I hoped on that green machine, started peddeling away I went, total control, yeah!. Then disaster struck. Biggest steepest hill, green machine starts to speed up, I loose control,. I think I rolled it if Im not mistaken. Got complete road rash, was picking gravel outta my ears. I brought that green machine home and never looked at it again. Way too scary. LOL
Danielle
1972
danielleshortreed@msn.com
This memory was added on: March 4,2005
Does anyone remember the Hotseat??? I had one when I was 5 it was the coolest!!!
SDB
1971
beckdogg222000@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: March 3,2005
The neighbor kid had a green machine and was the envy of the entire 'hood. My big wheel paled in comparison. Im about to have my first boy this summer and I plan to buy him one for sure!
Aaron "atrane"
1972
nappy_soul@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: February 23,2005
it's back, and better than ever. and now i'm too big to ride the damn thing!!!
http://www.huffybikes.com/products/greenmachine.html
brock
67
info@brocksmetalworks.com
This memory was added on: February 16,2005
I remember always fighting to ride my neighbor's Big Wheel. And then one day... I had a Green Machine!! I thought I was the BOMB! I remember taking it to birthday parties and stuff.
Am I wrong... or was it somewhat wider than a Big Wheel... making it slightly harder to cruise the sidewalk???
After 3 years of hard abuse... the plastic lever finally broke and retiring the Green Machine forever.
Mike
1971
mdicicco@juno.com
This memory was added on: February 5,2005
my friend had on of these and i was riding it and it was very icy out.he said to me,SLIDE ON THE ICE.HERE LET ME SHOW YOU,so i let him back on it and he got on it and when do this hill where we lived.he got going so fast that the wheel came off when he slid.he all of a sudden went around in circles and there was a big drop of and down at the bottom of the drop off was a coalvert.the only thing i seen was a green streek disaper do the drop off.he landed on a big then of leave that someone dump down in there.if that had not have been there,he would have got hurt bad or even killed.he never did show me anything else on the green machine.
carl
may 14,1971
musicman45616@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: December 30,2004
The Greenmachine was definitely the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. I remember my friends and I used to ride around in packs along the residential streets of Hong Kong - terrorising everyone our path. Popping 360's at the bottom of underground parking lot ramps and along the street. Geeze, it was the BOMB. Now that I live back in the United Kingdom - and pushing 34yrs, with 3 kids, i really want to let them experience the thrill and exhilaration that I experienced as a kid on that crazy machine. But you cannot get your hands on one in this country - they're just not sold. (Nor can you get it from amazon and ship it). CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW UTTERLY FRUSTRATING THAT IS FOR A GREENMACHINE FAN????? However, if some kind person out there in the US would be a champ as to respond to this email - I would be forever in your debt. I propose that someone might be able to buy me one in the US and send it to me in the UK (Scotland to be precise). Naturally, I would pay for all the costs - and would forever be in their debt.
Stuart Ralph
1971
stuart.ralph@tiscali.co.uk
This memory was added on: November 26,2004
LOL, I wrote a little piece about this awesome vehicle here:
http://www.keepgoing.org/issue2/green_machine.asp
Carter
1971
carter@keepgoing.org
This memory was added on: November 17,2004
Oh the spin outs that ruled!
alex
1969
This memory was added on: November 10,2004
I wanted one of these in the worst way... I had a Big Wheel, but I never got a Green Machine. I was sooo jealous of the kids who had them. Great web site you have here, much cheaper than therapy. :)
Meaux Betta
1969
This memory was added on: October 25,2004
"THE GREEN MACHINE" was a monster ,i had loved my one. Every saturday i would race my mates on mine. It was a plesure to have one and a big wheel.
Omar
1969-1976
This memory was added on: October 22,2004
We are doing a match game at work and on the survey it asked what our favorite toy was as a child and I put down the greenmachine, when the game went around to guess who liked what I saw that someone else put down the greenmachine. I thought no one who remember that, but I was wrong. My memories of the greenmachine brings me back to when life was fun and exciting. I will be buying one this Christmas for my kids. SO MUCH FUN :-)
Alisa
1970
alisa.robbins@lrmc.com
This memory was added on: October 19,2004
I can't believe I finally found a place to honor my absolute favorite toy as a child, and it wasn't even mine. I am the only daughter among three brothers, and let me tell you I sure had to fight to get riding time on the Green Machine, including trying to keep it from Dad. I saw the commercial for the updated version and I wanted to buy it for my girls. (I have two) But I never even saw them at the stores. Well I am here searching for another generations fun!!!
Ceiya
1972
ceiya@msn.com
This memory was added on: October 6,2004
MAN !! this was one excellent ride. My brother had the Red Baron. A red colored one. Some fat kids from my dads church sat on mine and broke the joint that kept the body together, talk about misery.
s. barajas
9/25/1968
salbarajas@rgv.rr.com
This memory was added on: October 1,2004
This was the ultimate scoot! I remember the front wheel being so worn out that it cracked down the middle and my friend Jimmy and I would put rocks in it so it would sound like a chopper. I broke the seat off of it and still rode without. THE BEST!!!
Rick
1971
ajohnson1860@sbcglobal.net
This memory was added on: September 30,2004
Awesome ride! I'd tear around the drive way and take it into a power slide!
Brian Soares
1974
This memory was added on: September 6,2004
I remember the Green Machine. It was the joy of my life. My mother bought it for my 3 brothers and me being the eldest would take it away from my them, go to the top of the hill on my block, and race down that hill against all the boys. I was the only girl of course, and we would see who could go the fastest and skid the best. Those were the good old days. Maryland heights Mo. Fee Fee Rd. Nice hill. Yeah! I wish that I could get one for my children. I can see me trying to get my big self on that too.
Willeatta Croft-Gillespie
1966
Vwgillespie@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: August 15,2004
I have permanent scars from The Green Machine. I thought I was wayyy cooler than any kid on Warwick Ave in Brooklyn, NY because while they were stuck riding their Wonder Woman or Incredible Hulk big wheels I had the true deal! The Green Machine! They could not spin out like me! They could not go as fast as me! They did not have the cool levers like I had! Yes! I was the automatic bomb! Even the boys hated how great I was on my Green Machine! Take that Hector Perez! Take that Ruthie! LMAO. I wish I had one today to accomadate a more adult size!
Alecia
1976
aleciaj27@aol.com
This memory was added on: August 10,2004
I am here @ work speaking 2 some 1 who believes her Dukes of Hazzard big was better than the legendary GREEN MACHINE......i am still laughing @ her. Some peoples children... the nerve of some people. don't get me wrong i like the General Lee 4 jumping over small ponds & whatnot but NOTHING could spin around a corner like the GREEN MACHINE!!!! yee haw!
my_adidas
1973
thzntz@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 26,2004
I had a green machine and a headstrom bigwheel, like the kid in "The Shining". My big wheel-less neighbor and I used to cruise up and down the block on these things. Also got alot of scrapped elbows and knees. I cant believe that I didnt get killed riding these things :)
Chris
1976
spsolutions@comcast.net
This memory was added on: July 2,2004
i don't remember how old i was when i got my green machine. all i remember was how happy i was to get it, and my next memory was the pedal breaking off when i was gonna race my buddy on his bigwheel... i lost.
dave
1972
This memory was added on: May 30,2004
My brother had a Big Wheel but me...I had the Green Machine. We lived in the last house on a dead-end street that was also the bottom of quite a steep hill. The Green Machine was incredibly hard to keep stable but if you could...MAN! What a payoff! Skid City!!! That, some hot dogs for dinner, and a episode of C.H.I.P.S. What a life. Aaaahhh...to have been a kid in the 70s!
J Edgar Groover
1971
jedgargroover@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: May 28,2004
I remember I was in grade one (about 6 years old) and I had asked for one for Christmas. My Mom thought that it was strange for a "girl" to be wanting one of these...believe me I had started asking back in the summer...I even memorized the commercial.."8,9 10 years old..old enough for Green Machine. A racer for guys who like a ride that's really fast! Swivel action rear wheels..twist! turn! and spin like wild!"..so Christmas morning came and it wasn't there. I was crushed. Once I had opened all of my presents, she said "there is one more thing for you..it's in the other room. It was too big to put under the tree". I walked in and my Step Dad was in there with the camera and there was my Green Machine!! assembled and ready to ride! I still have the picture he took of my face..I rode that thing until the back wheels wore out (they had to be replaced along with the gear shifts). I even carted it to my Dad's house on weekends to race with the other kids on the street!! Ahh nostalgic memories....
Christina
1971
medgirl27@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: April 21,2004
I can remember being I guess 7or 8 and even though it was marketed for boys, I wanted The Green Machine more that anything. I didn't get it under my tree christmas morning and decicded that Santa wasn't real, because I ahdn't gotton it. When my sister and her husband arrived at our house later that morning, I wa asked to get one last thing out of their trunk.. It was the green machine. I rode it until I was elevin, than It sat in the garage for years until I would give it away. I can still feel the wind on my face as I crused down the hill to my block.
marla
1969
joemacfan2000@yahoo
This memory was added on: April 5,2004
The green machine provided my very first knee scar. I can remember riding one owned by a neighbor kid of my grandma. They lived on a pretty steep hill. We used to ride down the hill. We'd get going so fast that I swore those spinning pedals in the front were a vortex just waiting to suck in pant legs, shoe laces, younger siblings. One time, it sucked in the shoe lace of my brand new Nikes (white canvas with red stripe) and torqued so hard to the side that it tipped over and I slid along the driveway on my knee, pinned underneath the beast. Tears of joy, really.
James Gill
1974
jhgill@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: March 25,2004
Buffalo NY, circa 1975.
When it wasn't snowing (which seemed like an every day occurrence), I was always eyeing my friend's Green Machine. They didn't make these ausome toys for 'girls'. Last time I checked they never made a pink version so I stole every chance I could get borrowing my friend's GM and racing it up and down the street like a nascar expert, burning rubber or rather plastic as I did a 360 at the corner.
And then the ice cream man would come and the green machine was just a hunk of abandoned plastic next to the ringing ding-a-ling song of the creamy dreamy ice cream man.
Ah, memories.
sparkalina
1970
whatsemail
This memory was added on: March 21,2004
We used to cut holes in the plastic tires and put extremely fine white dirt in the holes. It appeared we were burning rubber as the dirt would look like smoke.
Darrell 1968
DARRELL
This memory was added on: January 18,2004
Not really about Green Machine, but what was, I think, an earlier toy...
Does anyone remember the X-15? I had one aroound '72-73 I think. It was heavy, silver steel bodied and steered using a single stick "joystick". It also had a GREAT noisemaker that really ticked-off Mom AND all the neighbors.
I literally wore the tires off the thing. Great ride!
Jeff
1964
This memory was added on: December 17,2003
Great tune by the band "Apples in Stereo" called Green Machine:
What happened to me Wake me up from this dream I want my Green Machine Don't wanna keep myself clean ... Saturdays and SuperFriends These are things that I can still remember
1966
This memory was added on: December 4,2003
This was the coolest toy on the street in the CHristmas's of the early 1980's!
I rode mine until I had skidded all the way through the plastic on both back wheels! Only wish I could still fit in one today!
Artie
1972
cuppas@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: November 26,2003
I loved this thing!!!! I remember the first time I had my big crash on it. I got more cuts and scrapes from riding my Green Machine...but it was the best. My brother had something called the Super Cycle and my best friend had a big wheel. We would all race every Saturday morning. I can't believe how much the Green Machine cost nowadays, but I will get my child one anyway.
Angie
1967
kimmbah@ivillage.com
This memory was added on: November 13,2003
The ultimate in riding machines--mine was broken and repaired so often that it looked like some sort of mobile junkyard by the time I abandoned it.
Arnie
11/24/67
This memory was added on: October 17,2003
Great Christmas story. God Bless. Yes if you look around you can still buy Big Wheels and Green Machines.
Baron/MI
This memory was added on: September 27,2003
It was my rite of passage into manhood!
Josh
1972
This memory was added on: September 24,2003
i knuck all my teeth with this toy ... i loved it
joe
1969
puercolot@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: August 28,2003
Spent HOURS on the Green Machine too! This was the coolest machine for ripping around the neighborhood on!
Coralie
This memory was added on: August 26,2003
I did so much skidding on mine that the hard, plastic back wheels wore through and cracked. Then it was just thunk-thunk-thunk up and down the street like a getaway car in the movies with the tires shot out. Glad to see the Green Machine is back.
Alex M.
1969
***@**.***
This memory was added on: August 15,2003
Cool story on the 1978 Christmas, and yes they still have the Green Machine, saw one at Walmart the other day.
tim
1969
plumber1tim@aol
This memory was added on: August 2,2003
I had a blue one called a Midnight Rider. What a blast! Neighborhood kids kept stealing it at night and my mom had to keep rounding it up and bringing it back home.
Max
1972
This memory was added on: July 11,2003
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This memory was added on: July 10,2003
It was Christmas 1978...My husband and I were so young,,,and raising 4 kids...on not much of a salary, we were so broke that Christmas, We headed to the store on Christmas Eve, with 20$s to buy something from "Santa" My son wanted a big wheel so bad, but they were 20$s each..we stopped at Montgomery Wards at 10 PM and were delighted to see they had marked down all Big Wheels to 5$s!! and to top it off...the Green Machine was only 5$s too! My oldest daughter got that, from "Santa" the rest got Big Wheels..I have never forgotten how blessed and thrilled I felt on the way home...Baby Jesus was truly watching over our brood! It took Nena years to grow into the Green Machine, but they rode it and the Big wheels until there was nothing left of them, down the slopes of Clay st.!! It's hard to write this without getting tears in my eyes! Anyone know where you can get a Big Wheel or GreenMachine?? My daughter was just telling this story to her 3 kids, trying to explain what a Green Machine was!
Kathy Recicar
1954
precicar@gogbn.com
This memory was added on: June 20,2003
I loved this! My brother had one and it was then given to me as a hand me down I guess. It was so such fun. We lived in a culdesac and would spin around in it.
Tomya
1975
tonayspeck25@adelphia.net
This memory was added on: June 20,2003
I just bought my son a new Green Machine for his birthday. They are now made by Huffy. The frame is metal and the front tire is actually rubber! The back tires are still made of the hard plastic for skid-ability!! VERY COOL!!
Kurt
1962
doublek@maplenet.net
This memory was added on: June 20,2003
Lost my first teeth on a Green Machine, still one of my fondest memories. Would skid out all day. Now I want to get one for my son but hes still too young, someday though.
Erick D.
1969
erick@heinzen.com
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