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Most Scalextric models are 1:32 scale, though between 1968 and 1970 Super 124 cars and track were manufactured at 1:24 scale. In 1994 Micro Scalextric at 1:64 scale was introduced. Cars and track are not compatible between scales. [citation needed] In addition to various types of cars, Scalextric vehicles have included motorbikes, sidecars, go ...
Additionally, Airfix' line of aircraft kits in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/24 scale were imported from the U.K. and sold under the MPC logo. Some of the initial 1/72 reissues from about 1970–71 featured an array of extra "customizing features" with a few chrome-plated parts, and strange "psychedelic" decals, similar to the wild custom car kits of the ...
This was a huge 1/8 scale 1924 Ford Model T bucket, complete with hot-rodded Chevy engine. The 24-page 8 1/2 x 11 inch instruction booklet showed that the model came with an optional electric motor to power the wheels, and featured customizing tips by Darryl Starbird, the famous Kansas customizer. [ 3 ]
In 2003, Big Time Toys of Nashville, Tennessee resurrected the Motorifc name for a series of cars and tracks. The scale of the cars was slightly bigger than the original Ideal Motorifc 1:43 scale. The design of the interchangeable bodies was retained. The new cars came with a set of two motors, one for regular speed and one for faster speeds.
In 1992, Tyco purchased the Illco Toy Company, bringing Illco's extensive line of toys based on the children's show Sesame Street to Tyco. [4] In the mid-1990s, as a bigger toy company, company headquarters was moved to Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. It purchased the Matchbox brand of scale model cars, in 1992. [5] [6]
Formula 1 Car: G-Plus: Gold chromed body; #1; red, yellow, and orange stripes. 1716 1731 1976 LOLA T-330 Formula 1 Car G-Plus Silver chromed body; #7; orange and blue details. White body; #7; blue details; either grey or chromed mirrors. 1717: 1957: 1980: BMW M1 [11] Sports Car: G-Plus: White body; red and blue stripes; #3. 1718: 1783: 1981 ...
Many 'in house' models of real car companies are made by professional modelers in full size, or at very large scales like 1:4, 1:5, 3:8, or 1:10 to portray adequate features and proportions. For toys, many European pre-war cars and trucks were made to display with railroad layouts, making 1:87 (1 to 2 inches, or HO scale) or 1:43 (about 4 ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, car and trucks were well proportioned and had interesting features, but models were a bit too heavy on details that could have been rendered more delicately or accurately. Chrome spears along the sides of 1950s cars, for example, were sometimes too thick and unrealistically embedded in grooves in the die-cast body.