GI Joe - A Real American Hero: RAM - Rapid Fire Motorcycle (Hasbro, 1982)
Two of my childhood toys: My old Rock & Roll action figure riding the RAM! In 1982, I loved GI Joe toys! Getting my first two GI Joe figures (Short Fuse and Grunt) was a major event in my childhood. At the time, I couldn't imagine cooler figures that the first wave of GI Joe: A Real American Hero. I also loved the file cards and the comic books. For the most part, I was much more interested in the action figures than the vehicles, but several exceptions to that rule were vehicles found in the first wave of GI Joe. The box for my 2nd childhood RAM My first GI Joe vehicle was the Rapid Fire Motorcycle (or "RAM" for short). It was (and still is) easily one of my favorite toy vehicles ever. Some elements of the design and the removable 20mm Gatling Cannon on the side may have been a little bit silly for an otherwise fairly realistic military toy line, but by wave 2, reality had been thrown out the window. In comparison to the later w...