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I see. Thanks for the reply - now I know. Very interesting. Obviously some designer thought, 'Hey, this might be cool!' What model years were like that - the mobile surgery suite lighting?

Hey, Dan, Question for you, since you're an F fan and you're in the business. Recent years' F-trucks have these double stacked headlamps. My question is: Do they (the trucks) come with "off" or "dim" switches, or are they only sold with unextinguishable all-lights-on-all-the-time super high beams suitable for docking space stations in deep black hole space? It seems like 90% or more around here are always on 'stadium-lighting' mode everywhere they go -- day or night. Can they be operated with only two lamps on so the rest of us can see? Or are they only sold to blind people who need all the light they can get? [BTW- I may have expressed it humorously, but I'm serious. It's damn hard for anyone else to see when one of these is around . . . especially if they jack it up or put more than four bricks and a cinder block in the bed.] And, more than half of them run around with the extra in-the-bumper driving lights on, too!

Oops. Oops. Pretend I didn't say that twice twice.

More flexible to handle all those crashes and tumbles on the slot track without scattering tiny paint flakes everywhere. Oops. Sorry. Didn't notice that you didn't want to know. So, just pretend you didn't read the above. 😎

Interesting, Timothy, that it has a 'halo' vinyl top. I had a '74 - no vinyl top - and loved it! But, I don't recall seeing either the Aztec Package or a 'halo' top on any of the 71-74 Chargers. Thanks for sharing.

Too cool!

Exquisite models, as always, Charlie! My Eisbrenner is identical to the one you show here, but it has a gray primer colored exterior surface. I don't know if it is gray gelcoat or if the previous owner primered it. I've held it in a sort of reverence since acquiring it, decades ago.

That is one great looking wreckerized truck!! Even if Ford assemblers lost track and couldn't count how many low-bridge lamps they put on the roof!

Hey, Charlie! I also have one of the original Eisbrenner fiberglass "bucks" - as I recall the story, he fabbed up 8 or 10 of the windowless, featureless fiberglass bodies then built one -- the one that was featured in Scale Auto Enthusiast (Issue 21, Sept/Oct 1982). I also scored two of the Uptown Auto resin castings - one is a work in progress. I love the Seagrave Anniversary Series trucks - especially the Sedan Pumpers - which the Eisbrenner fiberglass units and the subsequent Uptown resin castings represent. If you have pics of the two you've built, I for one would love to see them!

Absolutely STUNNING!!

Excellent show! Great swap meet! ALL the model car magazines were on hand, including the brand, new soon-to-be-published Auto Modeler Magazine!! Art and his crew did a great job of producing a super fun event! Glad I made the trip and it was good to see many builders from the Phoenix area as well as all the Cali modelers. Congrats to Chris Sobak for his Best of Show win!

Many thanks to Cactus Car Modelers member Raoul Coulombe.

Broderick Crawford went drag racing after he retired from Highway Patrol.

Change changes everything.