Beginning "Muky" was a brand created by ESDECO, a company founded by Mr. Escobar and Libio DeConti and his brother The company's name is an acronym from both families surnames. in the city of
Gualeguay, in
Entre Ríos Province, 145 miles north-west of Buenos Aires. Virtually all of the models made by Muky were copies of early
Mattel's
Hot Wheels like the Custom Corvette, the Lola T70, the Custom Eldorado, or the Dodge Deora. Thus the company is often called the "Hot Wheels of Argentina". Muky were not as popular, or as collectible today, as the country's
Buby toys, which made Argentine
Torinos,
Falcons, and other vehicles that may have been more familiar to children there.
Change of management In the late 1970s, because of the worsening economic environment in Argentina, the DeConti brothers moved to Brazil and began manufacturing toys there called "Superveloz". In 1984 or 1985, a certain Dell Arciprete (whose family ran a fumigation business) bought the factory and rights to the Muky brand, changing its name to "Induguay S.A.". Using most of the same dies, the company again began making toy cars. Arciprete's Muky line added a few new vehicles. The Archiprete family ran the factory and the fumigation business at the same time. The later Mukys were numbered from eight to forty, numbers one through six having been lost along the line somewhere. Also, these later models' chassis were cast in plastic, and Mukys were distributed also to Uruguay and Spain. == Questions on tooling ==