Tarak - Tarak

These little goodies that I call Tarak - Tarak are toys that I love to play with when I was still young.  Here in the Philippines, children of all ages love this toys, which is also known and called by little boys with many names such as, tarak-tarak, broom-broom, kotse - kotse or during our time we call it matchbox, one of the manufacturers of this toys, which in turn became a generic term for toys of this kind, regardless of who the actual manufacturer was.

These mainly are called DIE-CAST TOYS.

The term die-cast toy here refers to any toy or collectible model produced by using the die casting method. The toys are made of metal, with plastic, rubber or glass details. Wholly plastic toys are made by a similar process of injection moulding, but the two are rarely confused. The metal used is either a lead alloy (in the first toys), or more commonly Zamak (or Mazak in the UK), an alloy of zinc with small quantities of aluminium and copper. Lead, as previously so widely used for cast metal toys, or iron are impurities that must be carefully avoided in this alloy, as they give rise to zinc pest. These alloys are also referred to casually as white metal or pot metal, although these terms are also confused with the lead toy alloys. The most common die-cast toys are scale models of automobiles, aircraft, construction equipment and trains, although almost anything can be produced by this method. (wiki)

Die-cast toys comes in different scale, but my favorite is these 1:64 scale models cause its nice, it does not consume much space, and very affordable.  Nowadays I don't play with this toys anymore, I just collect and display them, just plainly having a piece of history.....

here are my tarak -tarak, enjoy!.....