Among the vintage models I have in my operating fleet is this MKT stock car. It is Scale-Craft and I took it to just be a nicely built model with probably HO decals. Kept it around because I like the MKT and it had a role on the layout.

Then there was the lot of decals that came up recently on eBay, and one of the sets that caught my eye was the MKT set for a stock car. Stock car? I thought that this was never offered, but clearly it was. There was no decal drawing with the set, but the decals in the envelope match my car perfectly.

The decal set had to have been produced in 1946 (for Scale-Craft by Walthers, as it says on the envelope), part of the thrust of manufacturing from their new factory in Libertyville. Looking at all the S-C paper I have, this set was not listed on anything from 1946. There is no decal list at all associated with the subsequent Hollywood catalog, at least that I have. The only MKT decal set for a stock car that comes up is on page 43 of the final Round Lake catalog, but even that is not the same as mine as it says it is for a yellow car with black lettering.

I don’t want to say this is an uncatalogued lettering, probably I just don’t have the decal list that must exist from 1946. If anyone has it, I’d be interested to see it. But it is nice to solve a little mystery, this model does in fact have the original Scale-Craft decals — just the postwar version of them.