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[TSR]

The OK-Kader company of Hong Kong produced in the mid-1960s, a large quantity of models that were copies of American slot cars, but using their own chassis and motor designs. They produced models in all three sizes, HO, 1/32, and 1/24 scale. Here are a few:

First, the 1/24 scale 1964 BRM F1:







The 1/24 scale 1958 Scarab-Chevrolet sports racer:







And the 1/24 scale 1963 Watson-Offy "Willard Battery Spl":







And while we are at it, some more, now in the 1/32 scale (despite that some of the boxes are marked "1/24 scale"...). These models were original Kader issues and were not copied on the American slot cars but on the Hong Kong-produced Ideal "Motorific" battery-powered models:

















A bit crude and quite typical of most Hong Kong production of the time, but they do have their charm...

[68Caddy]

Philippe, you sure got all the cool stuff.

Love the Impala.

Nesta

[TSR]

I don't, Scott does. I am only the slave who has to post it.

[Larry Mattingly]

And yet ANOTHER Indy roadster that I don't have...

LM

[TSR]

Larry,

This is the only one I have ever seen, and it looked copied from the AMT static kit of the same car. But I have not been looking that hard, and Kader cars are not that rare so I am sure that you will find one some day.

[Horsepower]

That's a very interesting looking motor. Is that a Hong Kong made motor? Looks different (from what is visible) from the other Mabuchi can type motors.

[Mopar Rob]

The Country Squire wagon is cool, but I don't get the racing stripe and numbers?

[MG Brown]

Easy - station wagons are popular in demolition derbies.

[skeeterbuck]

Wow! A ragtop with a racing stripe. That's a first for me.

Also, the Mercury looks like it has a siren mounted on the left fender. I wonder if that was originally a police car. Pretty cool in their own right.

Thanks, Dokk and Scott.

Chuck

[Lone Wolf]

Dokk, really neat, thanks for posting.

Do these say "slot car" anywhere on the box? I wonder how many of these I passed on at toys shows thinking they were crude Hong Kong junk from the '60s. You know, the little friction cars with gobs of yellowed glue bursting from the seams with a drivers head that came off a cheap 1960s birthday cake decoration from the bakery .

Couldn't find the driver but THIS is the kind of junk I mean. Notice the scary clown heads with the "dead" eyes .

[TSR]

Actually, they do:

[Mopar Rob]

Easy - station wagons are popular in demolition derbies.

Good body, means your going fast enough to fall off. Better than some people that need to find a nice Landaulet body because they're on the track always going slow like they,re driving Mrs. Daisy

[Alchemist]

I am only the slave who has to post it.

Well I sure appreciate your efforts in posting all that you do Dokk! Thank you!!

Ernie

[stevefzr]

I can only imagine they copied words like "1/24" without any idea what it meant. The BRM is 1/24 alright, but that Country Squire is 1/32, despite the 1/24 written on the box.

Steve C

[TSR]

Yeah well, they all look the same to me!

[Ron Hershman]

That's a very interesting looking motor. Is that a Hong Kong made motor? Looks different (from what is visible) from the other Mabuchi can type motors.

Yes Kader made their own motors...well they had a little factory on their massive complex grounds in Hong Kong making the motors mainly for Bachman Trains.

Parma had their 16-D motors made there from 1982 or so till the early/mid 90's when Bachman went to another company to get their motors and gears made. When this happened, the motor factorycompany at Kader shut down.

The evidence is the "round" brush holders and hardware. The very early Parma 16-D motors used that exact and identical system on their motors until tooling was made and paid for to use a 36-D sized brush on the Parma motors starting in 84 or so.

One of Kader's most famous products..... The first and early Cabbage Patch dolls/kids.