Chuck Most

It's amazing how rugged a simple box can look. 😁 Looks like a particularly rough ride but at least it's got a roomy sleeper.

Really love the clean and purposeful, but still classy look you got from this one.

Straps and steps taken care of, and the cab is as aligned as it's going to get.

Old Canadian workhorse that evidently ended up in Michigan at some point. Then, after being retired from road use, became a floral display. Even though the rest of the Canadian market Mercury trucks went away in 1968, for whatever reason the C Series soldiered on alone until 1972. This is the AMT kit with an MPC Wheel Horse tractor with a scratch built wagon, and a bunch of shrubbery from JTT. Originally the plan was for a stack of old truck parts but I went with flowers instead. Markings were done with Gundam markers.

Getting somewhere...

Spare parts tossed into a blender to make a fleet mate for another A64B I built a few years ago. Basic AMT kit with a twin turbo Detroit V12 and Allison automatic from a Bandag Bandit, Revell Bill Signs front floats, old resin front wheels with rusted thumb tacks for hubcaps, and a set of 1928 Lincoln headlights. The headache rack is from a KW Alaskan Hauler and the chassis is capped off with Don Mills treadplate.

Chassis has a few touches of yellow, and is now up on wheels.

Hopefully she'll (finally) be finished sometime today. We'll see.

I've been trying to get a few stalled projects either finished or progressing again lately. Since it's been slow at my workplace I've been taking advantage of the couple extra hours I now have at least a couple days a week for that.

Mirrors, door handles, and other such getting taken care of.

Blast from the past! For many years, I've wanted to do a Minneapolis Moline dealer rig. Since White Motor Company owned both Minneapolis Moline and Reo, I thought why not make THIS that project? By the early 1960s, Minneapolis Moline tractors were painted in a combination of "Energy Yellow" and a rather unflattering (to me) bronze kinda color. I didn't want to find a color I wasn't fond of, so I opted for something similar but with a little more pop... Enter Tamiya Copper. The hood and cab are now slathered in Tamiya White Primer, in preparation of what will likely be Tamiya Camel Yellow. I bought these adhesive decals from Bossen Implement years ago. These will not only carry the theme, but enable me to work around the Reo letters and emblem problem... The larger MM letters will go on the hood sides. The White logo may end up on the radiator access panel.

Rear lamps ✔️ License plate ✔️ Mud flaps ✔️ Well, one end of the truck is in the bag.

Cut down the pass through and repositioned the exhaust for a closer fit between cab and sleeper. Yeah... That's better. 😁 Cab clearance lamps are also in place.

It's had the door logos for a while now... Pump & Dump 🤣 Here you can see the completed battery box. Here we have the fuel tank, but I might replace it with a smaller round tank below the door.