Sheriff Sam The Crazy Cowboy   

Sheriff Sam The Crazy Cowboy: Circa 1960’s 5-3/4” long X 6 ½ inches high 

The Sheriff Sam Crazy Cowboy eccentric car basically a reimagined version of the American Sheriff Sam Whoopee Car but the horns on the front are installed in reverse. Greenbergs Guide vol 2 describes the Whoopee care version as “In an amusing touch, the driver’s feet are sticking out of the front of the car. The toy comes in various colors the most common is the red plastic car. The car has cattle horns on the hood. The driver has a plastic body and various colors of hats, red being again the most common. The toys car color always matches the color of the hat. The cowboy hat is plastic and the head is tin. Like the old jalopy car, the toy has large tin back wheels. The white spokes with red discs in black and white stripes are the most common, the front wheels are red with yellow or white lithograph treads. The dark wheels like the one pictured are less common and probably were a late production addition. These wheels were also used on the all tin “Jumpin Jeep”.”

The most significant difference between the “Sheriff Sam The Crazy Cowboy” & the “Sheriff Sam and his Whoopee car” are the boxes. The name change is worth noting as well as the change in fonts used and the size differences in the two boxes. The American version is a ½’ larger in height, width and depth (the toy itself does not have a size difference.