PlastiMarx “COMICOCHE de cuerda” ( Comical car, Windup)circa late 1960’s.
PlastiMarx was a subsidiary of Marx that began to produce toys in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Marx would ship older dies that had been used and exhausted their usefulness up to PlastiMarx so they could revive the toy for the Spanish market in Mexico.
PlastMarx made a lot of different toy and trains, in some cases they bought dies from Wyandotte and Unique Arts toy companies.
This particular toy was made from the dies of the "Mickey Mouse The Driver Car" made in the 1950s the car is 6 ½ inches long and 4 ½ inches high. The Mickey figure is plastic and art and is identical to the Mickey Mouse eccentric car I have photographed. The heads of the figures are mounted on springs and shake as the car moves. The Mickey figure is mostly unpainted except on the face.
The toy is almost identical to the American version although the car has slightly different lithography and the base of the car isn’t lithographed at all.