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  1. Posted · Edited by 41CHEVY

    1 hour ago, JPR said:

    That's really cool, hauling beach sand, that sounds like an easy life...... and only 200xxx miles... it's still new !  Great buy !

    They told me that the average day is 35 to 45 loads in a 12 hour day. Drivers get paid by the load. I'll pass :)

    Now that the Tropical Storm has passed through finally, I'll be leaving on Thursday night Maine to Miami hopefully in 2 1/2 days.

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     Going to Miami on Wednesday to pick it up. One of 100 made to showcase their truck in at movie A License To Kill.  All the special interior goodies and the Numbered Built For plate is still there.  425h.p. V8 Cat, 18 speed, documented 249788 miles with all receipts since new. Covid bankrupted the company. They hauled beach sand

     

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    I was building this as filler for my Leach unit. Rear wrecker body and rear chassis is modified from the Encore Model Bedford break down truck. The front chassis and cab is a modified Monogram '50 Ford F1 cab and chassis. The Bedford front axle was modified to fit he Ford chassis. The cab fenders were re radiused and the fender bottoms lengthened to F4 design. wheels and tires are from the Bedford.  The kit boom is a licensed copy of a late 1940 Manley hand crank unit. The vintage Bang Bar is scratch build. Beacon light is aluminum tube and an Orange LED.  Up graded the engine to an early 1950's Desoto 354 Hemi.  Paint is Krylon and decals are parts box. Ford and F4 are Modelcar Garage Photo etch.  The headlights in the last photo are coated with thinned Tamiya Clear Smoke. I feel it makes the look more realistic with shadows and shiny areas.   Fun build.  Paul

     

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    On 7/9/2020 at 8:45 AM, Plybeep68 said:

    Going to be an awesome build !! Anyone remember back in the 70's when AMT was going to release a Garwood garbage truck? Was going to be on the Ford C600 chassis.  I think it was 1975 or 1976, I'll dig out my old AMT brochure and get a pic

    And how! I wanted that to appear so bad. I often wondered what it was dropped, licensing maybe?   Paul

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    If you would like I have many photos, promo items, spec sheets and goodies from 47 years driving, building and restoring real units that I could post up. My daily unit is a Marmon conventional and restoration projects are a number of AC MACKS.    Paul

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    On 5/25/2020 at 2:03 PM, Chariots of Fire said:

    That's nice work, Paul.  Scaling up is not easy to do, especially if what you are working from is in any way questionable.  I did this M-52 from photos and measurements taken from the actual piece and it was a fair amount of work.  The hardest part was to get the hood right.  Fortunately I did a mold and was able to cast it.  The rest is just sheet stock.  The builder of this real rig overdid the front bar work in my opinion.  But that is the way the truck was made so that is what I did to reproduce it in 1/25 scale.

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    I see a lot of Cape Cod style rigs with that set up but in their defense I've seen demos of the pushing trees over with them.

    My hood was made from some car body and 1/350 scale ship hull parts.

    What powers that unit? multi fuel engine or up grade to diesel?

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    2 hours ago, JPR said:

    It was , but it made a real truck driver out of a guy who was interested in learning it, nowadays, automatics, seem to be just 'steering' a truck, kind of seems, to me, the true skill is getting lost, but that is just me.... I used to love these two sticks... would like to try my hand at them again just for fun...

    You're right,  now days just seat warmers,  no pride, no real skills and no desire to learn any of it.

    I was just called back to do a quarry haul because the new automatics can't get out of the pits. Seems they done have a deep reduction like the sticks.  Lucky my Marmon wasn't tagged with antique plates yet.

    If you're close to southern Maine you can take a drive in my '58 B773 not  cramped because of the LJ series cab. Still quad box with a Brownie so it is 3 sticks, but up graded power to a tip turbine 315h.p. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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