Besides the huge trucks shown on the previous pages, Ideal also made a more reason ably scaled Cities Service tow truck. Its year of manufacture is unknown. Best guess – early to mid-sixties.
Branding their name on the hood was in keeping with Ideal’s low-key approach to name recognition.
Things were beginning to slip on the Ideal toy assembly lines. Nice bed design though.
The tow boom looked good, but its elevation was controlled by crude toothed supports that simply ratcheted through the bed floor. It could have been better.