 When Schuco went out of business in the late 1970s, Schabak acquired most of Schuco's tooling (cars and airplanes) and made agreements with many airlines to continue producing model aircraft (Bickford Diecast website).The company reissued many of Schuco's own diecast airplanes (Force 1990, 211).Schabak then carried on the Schuco tradition of producing toy and model cars (Johnson 1998, p. 209).