Seller's Description: Buddy L 1980 [Plastic Toy Car] HYPER RARE!  Condition: some of the stickers are peeled and cut but check the pictures in case i am wrong ...

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Buddy "L" toys were originally manufactured by the Moline Pressed Steel Company, which was started by Fred A. Lundahl in 1910.^[2] The company originally manufactured automobile fenders and other stamped auto body parts for the automobile industry, instead of toy products.^[2] The company primarily supplied parts for the McCormick-Deering line of farm implements and the International Harvester Company for its trucks.^[2] Moline Pressed Steel did not begin manufacturing toys until 1921.^[2] Mr. Lundhal wanted to make something new, different, and durable for his son Arthur.^[2] He designed and produced an all-steel miniature truck, reportedly a model of an International Harvester truck made from 18- and 20-gauge steel which had been discarded to the company's scrap pile.^[2]

Buddy L made such products as toy cars, dump trucks, delivery vans, fire engines, construction equipment,^[3] and trains.^[4] Fred Lundahl used to manufacture for International Harvester trucks.^[1] He started by making a toy dump truck out of steel scraps for his son Buddy. Soon after, he started selling Buddy L "toys for boys", made of pressed steel.^[1] Many were large enough for a child to straddle, propelling himself with his feet.^[1] Others were pull toys. A pioneer in the steel-toy field, Lundahl persuaded Marshall Field's and F. A. O. Schwarz to carry his line. He did very well until the Great Depression, then sold the company.^[1]

From 1976 to 1990, Buddy L was owned by Richard Keats, a well-known New York toy designer who went to work for Buddy L the day after he graduated from Brown University in 1948.^[1] By 1978, the company was located in Clifton, New Jersey.

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