by mrstumpyHO » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:25 pm
It looks like a Ideal-Majorette "Mk 3" slot car chassis and Firebird body. But I can't be certain.
Majorette is a French company that bought Ideal Toys here in America when it went under. They continued production of Ideal's slot car and TCR: Total Control Racing (slotless) systems until not many years ago under their own name, and they own the rights to the "TCR" name internationally. Long after slotless racing was killed off by radio control cars here, it continued to thrive in Europe.
Majorette continued to evolve both systems and their slotless and slot car chassis are similar in order to cut tooling costs. The Mk 3 version came out in the early 1980's from what I have learned. There was also a MK 4 version later that continued to the end of production.
Not much of the Majorette line was imported, and there has been so much slot car stuff available here that it was pretty much lost in the shuffle.
Stumpy in Ahia :character-oldtimer:
