Editing Muky (section)

== History ==
=== Beginning ===
"Muky" was a brand created by ESDECO, a company founded by Mr. Escobar and Libio DeConti and his brother<ref name=toym>[https://es.scribd.com/embeds/256311481/content Historia de los Muky], interview to Bruno dell Arciprette, published on Buenos Aires Toy Museum, 10 Oct 2015</ref> The company's name is an acronym from both families surnames.<ref name=automuky>[https://es.scribd.com/embeds/617904392/content Automóviles Muky]</ref> in the city of [[Gualeguay, Entre Ríos|Gualeguay]], in [[Entre Ríos Province]], 145 miles north-west of Buenos Aires.{{r|BeckWeb2018}}

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".{{r|WeberSahakangas2003}} Muky were not as popular, or as collectible today, as the country's [[Buby toys]], which made Argentine [[IKA-Renault Torino|Torinos]], [[Ford Falcon (Argentina)|Falcons]], and other vehicles that may have been more familiar to children there.{{r|Sinclair1976}}

=== Change of management ===
In the late 1970s, because of the worsening economic environment in Argentina, the DeConti brothers moved to Brazil{{r|BeckWeb2018}} 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.".<ref name=automuky/> Using most of the same dies, the company again began making toy cars.{{r|BeckWeb2018}} Arciprete's Muky line added a few new vehicles. The Archiprete family ran the factory and the fumigation business at the same time.<ref name=toym/>

The later Mukys were numbered from eight to forty, numbers one through six having been lost along the line somewhere.{{r|BeckWeb2018}} Also, these later models' chassis were cast in plastic,{{r|BeckWeb2018}} and Mukys were distributed also to Uruguay and Spain.{{r|BeckWeb2018}}