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Yes Steve may be that Gillete want to avoid lawful troubles with Matchbox. Nevertheless not all the manufacturers used to think in the same way. I spoke about "Aguti". The Aguti models were a so clear copy of Matchbox that it is dificcult to explain how they could sale these without proble...

Excuse me Steve, but when I said that the model was not launched I mean the awesome twosome. The ambulance that seem to be an Opel Admiral fortunately reached the toy shops. And here in Argentine is relatively easy to find although it was manufactured 45 years ago. The ambulance that I showed belong...

Apparently this model was not launched to de sale. It was a prototype. I said "apparently" because It is not very strange to find it and then I Think that may be that was launched a very small Edition. Steve. Concerning other copies I show this, that may be based in the Opel Admiral Matchb...

In Argentina there is a well-known brand of shaving blades called "Gillette". One day at the last of ´70s Gillette decided to make Die Cast cars. Here is a proof that they did it quite good. The model belongs to Mariano García ´s collection.

I had Buby in my childhood. They were well known for be the models of car that an argentine child saw in the street in those years. But they were not very strong and now I have not any one. The Matchbox have the axes and the wheel more resistent and I have two survivors. NOw here in Argentina a Buby...

I find these in a facebook group dedicated to argentine old toys. Of this brand, Gorgo, there is also a copy of corgi. The "Explorador Lunar" (moon explorer) of Gorgo is a big scale copy of the Spectrum Patrol of Corgi.

I saw in the Steve´s post the model "Planet Scout" and I remember a argentine copy of the brand "Gorgo" but in a bigger scale.

Yes, AJR. basically all the cars of the brand "Muky" were copy of hot wheels. For example those that you can see in the pics.

Nevertheless look at the box with the word "Superveloz", That in Spanish means "Superfast".

Very interesting post Steve and Matchboxkiwi.

There is a "partial copy" of the argentine brand "Muky".The truck was not copied from Matchbox. May be hotwheels. But the house on the truck is a copie from Matchbox.

May be a copy or may be another case of two manufacturers making models of the same car. But this "Ford Le Mans" is very similar to the wellknown Ford GT40 Lesney.