Heller Reissues Some AMT 1/43 Scale Big Rigs

[Junkman]

The tooling somehow ended up in France in the 80s, and they were issued under the Heller and Airfix banners.
Now these are coming back.

 

[niteowl7710]

Those were tooled up when Lesney owned AMT, so that tooling was probably done in the UK - or wherever Matchbox kits were tooled - and never left. Clearly all of that Lesney/Matchbox kit tooling still exists as the odd-scale airplanes have been reissued numerous times over the years.

[NitroMarty]

On 10/18/2025 at 7:59 PM, niteowl7710 said:

Those were tooled up when Lesney owned AMT, so that tooling was probably done in the UK 

I'm not so sure about that. AMT not sold to Lensey until 1978. I have a 1975 AMT catalog that has the 1/43 truck kits and pictured. Pretty sure those were tooled up in the Troy Michigan facility.

[Can-Con]

1 hour ago, NitroMarty said:

I'm not so sure about that. AMT not sold to Lensey until 1978. I have a 1975 AMT catalog that has the 1/43 truck kits and pictured. Pretty sure those were tooled up in the Troy Michigan facility.

There was a thread about these kits last year. I remember having that wrecker kit back in about '75 when we lived in B.C. More then a 10 year old me could deal with at the time.

Some of the kits may have been tooled up after the sale to Lesney but I really couldn't say.

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Can-Con

[Junkman]

Heller states the tooling is from 1973.