Dipsy Dan Car

Dan Dipsy Car: 1950’s 5-3/4” long x 6” high.

The Dan Dipsy car is the masculine version of the door Dipsy car both of Dan and Dorothy years have springs in their necks which make their heads not in shake the springs is partially hidden by a piece of plastic that covers the neck but can be seen under the headpiece.

The dominant colors of the tin cars are red and yellow

Both cars have lithography similar to that on one of the versions of the old jalopy. The only difference between these cars is the space on the top of the trunk, on the Old Jalopy the space is occupied by two other figures. On the Dan and Dora cars the space is covered with the words “Hot Dawg” and “Cap. 25 gals”. Hood lettering on both of the Dipsy door cars read “Queen of the Campus” and Engine Room”. The initials “J.C.” which probably stands for Jay Campbell the head artist at the Erie place appear on the radiator.

Both the Dan and the Dora figures also come in small yellow and red convertibles with lithography different from that on the eccentric cars. The undercarriage details of the cars are lithographed on the bottom of the convertibles, the figures head and upper bodies are made of plastic and are the same as the eccentric car bodies.

The eccentric cars have large tin back wheels. They have lithography spoked edges with red discs, and black and white stripes. The front wheels are red and white with white lithographed tire treads.

I believe these are the only to eccentric car toys that used the bobble head spring loaded mechanism, with the only exceptions bieng the Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse Eccentric Cars.. 

Note this box was used for both the Dipsy Dan & the Dipsy Dora box. This was one of the many strategies that Marx used to keep their cost down.