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Originally Posted by OVERULD

Anyone remember the old balsa wood gliders, with the wind-up rubber band motors and wire landing gear with plastic wheels? Rat Finks? How bout those pictures or cards - maybe they were stickers, but they had big blown engines in cars with oversized wheels with a monster looking cartoon character shifting gears with a giant shifter way above his head? What were those things called?

We must be about the same age..............

I bought one of those wind up gliders not long ago for my boys. The rubber band was cheaper then it was in the 60's.

Those stickers were called, "Odd Rods", "Odder Odd Rods", "Silly Cycles" and a few series came out later, but the Odd Rods were the first. I still have all of mine in plastic sheets that baseball cards normally go in. I had them in a box in the attic until one day I realized that I should get them out. They came in a pack with 3 in a pack I believe and a thin sleeve of gum I think. I never chewed the gum--just collected the cards. Here is their site: http://www.oddrods.com/