Jimbo8v92

Looks great man..would be neat if you made a chevy trucks dealer diorama for them

Got the engine trans and good from gary today. So will be assembling the motor and trans soon. Also got a dm600 cab and a extra r model cab from brian. So will be uding the roof and rear of the cab to make the corect short cab with the steel dash as 41chevy mentioned.

20 hours ago, 41CHEVY said:

Very nice work on a cool truck. The Blue one in your thread is owned Mark Hothmer from the KIngston, NY it's   a 1974 , just so you know it has the Plus-3 cab so it would not have the steel dash.  1972 was the last year of the short R cab and the steel dash. You can do the early cab by using the rear panel and the roof from the DM600 or the DM800.  I have a video of that truck coming into  the Macungie Mach show last year. I'll post it if you would like. Here is a few pic from the show of the drivers side I posted on the BMT site a few years ago. I have some of the lengthened cowl area, I'll find them also if you like.   Paul

 

 

 

Sounds great! Yeah i seen it a whiel ago at macungie and never bothered looked inside or took pictures of the truck. I dont remember seeing it last year there are you ralking about the show at the park or the show at the mack plant? I will be sure to keep an eye out this year though, but if you happen to have pictures of the cowl ide really appreciate it as thats the only truck ive found pictures of on the internet lol.

Assembled the chassis today alot of sanding to get parts to fit right. Might add a inch or two to the frame later on after i get the engine and hood fitted.

Some of the parts i have and progress on fitting a steel dash dm600 interior in the r cab. Not 100% on using the floater wheels and tires. Might get a set of the aluminum wheels from keystone.

Going to build a very rare r model that was a real factory option from mack. The RS-771L and RL-771L came with a 12v71 detroit and were only built for a few years. To fit the v-12 they used the standard long r700 hood and extended the cowl panel to clear the motor.I have some parts from moluminum, double take, gary wallace and a few guys on ebay. 

Hello everyone i just found this forum and thought since ive only ever been into big trucks this is where i should be lol.. i used to build models when i was younger back in the late 90s and just started to get back into building models. Its impressive all of the parts you can buy now to build a very detailed rig.