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Original model kits quickly followed, including the 1932–33 Chevy Roadster and Panel Truck, the first 'non-classic' subjects other than a Ford to be offered in 1/25-scale kit form. Later, for 19 the newly designed second-iteration Barracuda reverted to an MPC box, with no apparent AMT connection. For example, the 1967 MPC Plymouth Barracuda, originally made as a dealer promotional for Chrysler, was also marketed as a kit in an AMT box. Toteff remained on good terms with his former colleagues at AMT, and many of the first MPC products were distributed in AMT packaging. Another of the company's first 'promos' was a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 in both convertible and two-door hardtop versions.Īs with other companies before it, most notably AMT and Jo-Han, MPC developed many of its kits from pre-existing promo toolings. MPC produced its first promotional models in 1965 the first product to appear under its own logo was a highly detailed 1/25-scale 1964 Corvette Sting Ray coupe featuring working front suspension, and including extra speed and customizing parts. There, in 1958, he had developed the first “3-in-1” model car kits based on his innovative “side-slide” injection-molding technique, which allowed the tooling of one-piece model car bodies. Toteff had been one of the original employees at AMT, eventually rising to vice president in the company. (1925–2011) and Dick Branstner with facilities in Mount Clemens, Michigan.

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