{"id":3559,"date":"2022-08-21T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2022-08-21T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:14:20","slug":"mystery-solved-the-scale-craft-m-k-t-stock-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved: The Scale-Craft M-K-T Stock Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t want to say this is an uncatalogued lettering, probably I just don\u2019t have the decal list that must exist from 1946. If anyone has it, I\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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