The (Matchbox) Auto Design & Production Process, Circa 1965

This is both fascinating and fun to watch. Here we get a look inside an automotive design and production facility in 1960s Britain–though the cars they’re producing are Matchbox cars. It’s cool to see how they prototype them at 5x scale in wood, then use the prototypes to cut a scaled-down mold using a pantograph. The spraypainting step is also pretty neat:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DRbgYLhc4Y&w=1280&h=720]


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