1959scudetto Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I woul like to show you a truck model that I was first given by my father in 1966: The Matchbox Major Pack # M9 "Interstate Double Freighter" which is a Hendrickson Coe hooked to 2 double axle-trailers running for Cooper-Jarrett of Chicago. While I lost the original about 40 years ago, I happened to find one last year from an Austrian ebayer in good condition at a fair price (with box). So I bought it as a nostalgic flashback to my childhood. Interesting thing is that Matchbox choose this one, because only 2 were custom-built by Hendrickson in 1960 for Cooper-Jarrett, equipped with 12V-71 Detroit Diesel engines intended to pull double 40 foot trailers on the Ohio and Indiana turnpikes for only a few years, then they were sold by CJ (Info from the books of Ron Adams) Matchbox issued the model in 1962 and produced it until 1966 - Not a very popular choice of truck -anyway, I've been impressed by this one as a 7 year old boy, and still am. Someday I will build it in 1/25 (plans have been drawn 10 years ago): I've got 2 amt exterior post vans, a double-axle dolly from RoG's Australian Trailer kit, an old built up ERTL IH 4070-Coe which will spend frame, axles and interior parts and a resin cab of IH Emeryville Coe which will be modified into the "Route of Relay" 10-wheeler with some scratch-building. Model is in about 1/100 scale (in my rememberance it was bigger!): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Helmut...That is cool you got another one...nothing like getting to revisit ones childhood days. I am lucky to have a few of my childhood models and my dads oldies--my house got broken into a couple of days before Christmas...thankfully they did not find or damage them all....nothing like remembering the good old days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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