My personal favored vehicle was a genuine Flexible Flyer that my father had personally reassembled after finding it smashed and abandoned in a pile of pieces, which probably should have been a warning. Part of it was held together with electrical tape, which made it even more flexible.

In any event, it was both much faster and vastly more controllable than the molded plastic toboggans and saucers that most kids had at the time. Though it was no good on soft new snow.