About Cocoro

Little trucks. Big stories.

Cocoro Motors · Handmade

Cocoro Motors is a small independent workshop that designs and builds collectible metal vehicles, inspired by the industrial toys of the mid-twentieth century. Little machines with personality, made by hand for people who love well-made things.

Our story ↓
STEEL BODYRIVETED114 mm67 mm
Side view Pickup Truck · drawn from the real CAD model · dimensions in mm

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What is a Cocoro?

A Cocoro is a collectible art toy: a small, numbered metal truck made by hand. You design it here, in the 3D workshop (colors, graphics and extras), and then it gets built for real, just as you saw it on screen.

They don’t come off a production line: each one is painted, printed and assembled by hand, in small batches.

  • Steel body
  • Hand-painted
  • Hand-assembled
64 mm
Front view

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Our story

It all started with a fairly simple idea: to make toys the way they used to be made.

The kind that had weight. That were made of metal. That got scratched and dented and, instead of getting old, seemed to collect stories.

I’ve always been fascinated by well-made things: tools, old cars, tin toys and those little vehicles from another time that could be passed from one generation to the next. At some point I started wondering what would happen if we took that way of making things and brought it back, but with the tools we have today.

That’s how Cocoro began.

In a small workshop we started cutting and bending sheet metal, 3D printing parts, testing rivets, designing wheels, mixing colors and building prototype after prototype.

A lot of things didn’t work the first time.

And that ended up being part of the idea.

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Original design

Small objects from a big world.

We’re inspired by work trucks, farms, roadside gas stations, workshops, delivery vans and the industrial toys of the mid-twentieth century. But we don’t just want to reproduce the past.

We want to imagine a small world that could have existed.

A world of farm pickups, plumbers’ vans, fire trucks, expedition vehicles and machines built for jobs that maybe never existed.

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Made by hand

Cut. Bend. Print. Sand. Paint. Rivet. Assemble.

That’s why, even if two share the same model and the same color, they will never be exactly identical.

And we like it that way.

  • Sheet steel

    Non-galvanized mild steel, 0.6–0.7 mm: cut, bent and joined with an oxy-acetylene torch and silver-alloy solder.

  • Visible rivets

    The parts are joined with metal rivets, left visible on purpose: they’re part of its character.

  • Resin 3D printing

    Grilles, headlights, interiors, steering wheels and other details that would be nearly impossible in sheet metal at this scale.

  • Automotive paint

    Primer, color and finish in the workshop, with automotive acrylic enamel (Sur Big 5) in RAL colors.

  • Screen-printed graphics

    Brands and signs are screen-printed, one ink at a time.

  • Windows and wheels

    Clear windows, and wheels with rims made for each model and rubber tires.

How is it made?

  1. 1

    Design

    Pick the model, each part’s color, the graphics and the extras in the 3D workshop.

    Design yours →
  2. 2

    Cutting, bending and soldering

    The mild steel sheet is cut and bent by hand, then joined with silver-alloy solder and an oxy-acetylene torch.

  3. 3

    Printing

    Grilles, headlights, interiors and steering wheels are printed in resin and sanded by hand.

  4. 4

    Painting

    Automotive primer, color and finish, coat by coat.

  5. 5

    Graphics

    The brands you chose are screen-printed over the paint.

  6. 6

    Assembly

    Body, details, windows and wheels are riveted together, part by part.

  7. 7

    Inspection

    Each one is checked by hand before it ships. That’s why no two are identical.

  8. 8

    Shipping

    Carefully packed and sent off to your garage.

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Specs

Size
114 × 64 × 67 mm (length × width × height)
Weight
About 200 g
Material
Non-galvanized mild steel, 0.6–0.7 mm, with visible rivets; resin 3D-printed details; clear windows; rubber tires; automotive primer and acrylic enamel; screen printing
Recommended age
Designed for collectors. Ages 5+, with adult supervision. Not suitable for children under 3.
Build time
About 12 hours of handwork (varies by model)

Reference figures for the Pickup model. Other models may vary in size, weight and build time.

Built to be kept.

We live surrounded by things made to be replaced. We prefer another idea: objects you look after, display and keep for many years.

Because we still believe some things should be made slowly.

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