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Technical History - Bodies

Model Die Casting Bodies

This may or may not be a complete list; it contains the information I have been able to find.

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Model Die Casting, Inc. produced hardware bits for slot cars; cast hypoid gears and wheels and some nice "hypoid" (offset) motor brackets for their hypoid gears.  They also produced some pre-fab chassis and marketed their own version of Mabuchi motor (The Panther).

In mid 1965 they had some bodies made and put all the pieces together to produce two R-T-R cars; a Lotus 30 and a Ford GT.  By mid 1966 they got on the "Thingie" bandwagon with a new R-T-R car and body they called "The Bat":