Rear
Load Beach Bombs
z
Conversion z
The Rear
Load Beach Bomb (RLBB) Tooling was created at Neward DIe & Manufacturing
in San Bernardino County, California. This company was hired by Mattel
with the responsiblty for creating most of the tooling for the first several years of
Redlines. Plastic production facilities also existed at this location and
where used to run various Hot Wheel plastic parts. The bodies and chassis
of the cars were actually made of Zamac (Zinc Aluminum Metal Alloy Casting), a
metallic alloy.
| RLBB Creation Time Line | |||
| 11-Feb-1969 | Body | Mattel | Date the Body drawings to be completed. |
| 14-Feb-1969 | Chassis | Mattel | Date the Chassis drawings to be completed |
| 23-Feb-1969 | Interior | Mattel | Date the Interior drawings to be completed |
| 25-Feb-1969 | Window | Mattel | Date the Window drawings to be completed |
| May-1969 | All parts | Newards | Required at least 12 weeks to return a completed car. |
| Oct-Nov-1969 | Car | Mattel | Type 2 RLBB car with prototype SLBB base shows up (Pink #1) |
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