From the 40 Years book (I think that’s right), we already know that there was a (presumably short-lived) suggestion that commercials should not be converted to SF. (Isn’t there a late edition of the 1969 catalogue where only certain vehicles – all cars IIRC - are marked as being available in Superfast?)GHOSTHUNTER wrote:As Hugh mentions in His post earleir, Jack Odell did not like the 'Superfast' concept, they were ruining His beloved little models, he was a director of the company and actually resigned in 1973, so may have been over ruled in the development of the 'Superfast' range and the Regular Wheels had to give way, but we are now finding evidence through various models and prototypes the Two types of wheels very nearly co-existed together in the range, a view that does not seem to have been recognised before and certainly never hit on in the reference books, so we, the VBD forum members, are on the cusp of a new discovery...
Taken together, what these two prototypes indicate to me is that 1) Lesney’s initial response to the Hot Wheels threat was to consider futuristic designs, but with RW, and 2) Lesney subsequently upped their game by making the designs more outlandish (i.e. even less realistic) and with low-friction wheels.
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