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1 hour ago, vincen47 said:I’d love to see the engine, take more pics when you get it home.
I'll take more.
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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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On 7/12/2020 at 10:56 AM, JPR said:VERY Cool photos !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love the B 61, and that shovel, what a HUGE load for the day, with no Jakes, air brakes, or turbo's................. that is very cool !
And only 70 h.p.
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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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I was told by an other small magazine company that depending on what state the printing company is locate, that quite a few of the smaller printers/publishers were shut down for the virus quarantine.
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18 hours ago, Brian Dutz said:Thank you sir. It sucks that you lost the pictures.
Would you like to see the sole pic? Paul
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Sure looks the part!! I always liked all the Sterlings (even the newest ones) especially the heavier Sterlings with the Locust boards inserted in the frame rails
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Excellent build! Weathered just right. I did one years ago but only have a single pic left due to Photo Bucket
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Ancient AirFix 1/32 scale kit of the London Fire Brigades 1914 DENNIS. The real unit served from 1917 up to the late 1940's and served all through the London Blitz. The kit has minor detailing and Tamiya lacquer paint. This is one of the only ones I've seen built.
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This is a old build I took out to clean. Built about 2006 or 2007. Made it on the Scale Firehouse 2007 calendar for the month of December. The unit depicts an I.H. as it would have looked on December 7, 1941. Resin cab, Opel Blitz chassis and Americanized pumper body.
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Very impressive build. I didn't realize the size until I saw the clothes pin clamps. Wow!!
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Excellent!
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Very nice, I'm impressed with the cab guard design. Is the body patterned after any brand? Has a Garwood look to it. 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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Great scratch building of a unique rig.
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4 hours ago, JPR said:Obviously had light axles too...... oh I bet the driver was in the doo up to his ears......hope he had his seat belt on too.....
38,000 rears and 12.000 steer.
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The unit was originally a fleet tractor with single rails. It was stretched close to 3 feet, a dual wheel lift axle and contracted to haul cold planed asphalt. DOT cited it for a tad under 15,000 lbs. over weight, improper chassis modes and not CDL for driver. THe chassis broke where it was BUTT welded with only a 1/4" x8"x10" fish plate over splice.
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Thank you both. When I get back home from the Quarry this weekend and sit down I'll post up some goodies. 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.
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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1989 K.W. W900 James Bond 007 Edition
in 1:1 Truck General Discussion
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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.