So it’s perhaps no surprise that there is a certain following for these classic ... and his Tonka truck was ready to face another 30+ years of service. If you’re looking to restore things ...

This old sanitary service truck has a working hydraulic scoop ... this might sound less appealing than a true, vintage Tonka, but the restoration was so well done that it's hard to see the difference.

The collection was amassed by one man, Noel Funcke, a retired farmer who decided to start restoring Tonka trucks ... so fixing old Tonka trucks “was just an extension of that to a degree.” ...