At the back of the Woods' Farming and Heritage Museum at Rupanyup in western Victoria is a narrow room that used to be a storage space.
But step inside now, and you're greeted by 850 miniature Tonka trucks.
The collection belonged to Noel Funcke, a farmer who, in retirement, took up repainting and refurbishing toys.
He sold the Tonka trucks at swap meets, but held onto enough over 25 years to fill his double garage.
He later housed them at the local agricultural museum.
Sadly, Noel passed away shortly afterwards, but was able to see his beloved trucks in their finished state of display.
His son Warren Funcke said people were often surprised by the sheer size of the collection.
"It's amazing when you'd walk in the garage and go, 'Where's the car?'
"The car's not there, it's just full of Tonka toys," he said.
"With his farm equipment … he'd always looked after it and done minor repairs to that, so I suppose this was just an extension of that to a degree."
Tonka is an American toy brand that manufactured model vehicles, such as dump trucks, excavators and tractors.
Woods' Farming and Heritage Museum curator Michael Woods thinks that some of the older tin models in Mr Funcke's collection date back to the 1950s and 60s.
"It's good to have the ones still in the boxes," he said.
Popular with little and big kids
Mr Woods said the exhibit had already been a source of nostalgia for some visitors.
"It's not only the little kids, it's the big kids too," he said.
"We had one woman come in with her son just to come and see these."
Warren Funcke says the exhibit is a place to come and remember his dad.
"He passed away not long ago, so it's always a little bit tricky that side of it," he says.
"But it's certainly good to be able to come and see this collection and remind myself of my father."