hey guys can some one tell me what AMT stands for.....and a great mag for reference!!!!!!!

[Art Anderson]

Aluminum Model Toy was the name AMT came from. They produced metal car banks like the Banthrico stuff. Dennis Doty could fill in the details better than I.

Jim Keeler

Aluminum Model Toys produced just one cast aluminum car, the '48 Ford Tudor sedan (I had one as a 4yr old!). It wasn't a bank though, just a promotional model. They were meant to be displayed in Ford dealerships with a placard reading "Watch The Fords Go By!". It was the only cast aluminum toy car made by AMT though (even though aluminum was mere pennies a pound back then, due to the wholesale scrapping of some 400,000 surplus aircraft from the Army and Navy following WW-II). It was a full diecasting, unlike the Master-Caster version of the Fordor, which was slush cast, as were Banthrico's of the same era all the way out to the late 1950's.

AMT started producing plastic promotionals for 1949, in acetate plastic, with pressed steel chassis and plated steel stampings for bumpers and grilles, as well as plated steel stamped window "glass".

Art