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[Rob Hall]

I assume the race car hauler they are reissuing this year is something like this..

 

[1930fordpickup]

I thought that was the case. My late brother put that together years ago.

I wanted to build a different version of the hauler. 

[Casey]

Will the old car hauler body fit on this truck frame ?

 

Looks like this person did just that, and it looks pretty good:

 

http://www.randyayer...d48b019afd97a5b

 

[1930fordpickup]

Very cool,now I need to dry slobber of the keyboard. 

That top ( tire rack ) looks like the one on the Snake and Mongoose haulers. 

Edited by 1930fordpickup, 13 March 2013 - 05:14 PM.

[Casey]

Pics of AMT's Ford "big" truck kits: http://www.eddylenders.nl/ford.htm

[Steve Prideaux]

I built this one several years ago.  I did have to extend the frame to fit the hauler body.  Steve Prideaux[

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Edited by Steve Prideaux, 14 March 2013 - 09:01 AM.

[Johnny]

Nice looking racing rig Steve!

[Michigan Madman]

Back to an earlier question- yes, the trim piece and lenses from the new-tool AMT '58 Edsel will work for headlights if you want to build a '58-60 model (along with changes to the Ford C-XXX badges on the doors, which changed a little during those years) though you'd need to find the proper outer bezel for them. I can't verify this, but the '58-60 C-Series inner headlight trim looks very close to the '58 Edsel parts, and may well be the same part in 1:1. Again, can't verify that at this time, but in 1:25 the Edsel units would look just fine.

 

The three-bar custom grille from the AMT '53 F-100 can also cough up its lights for this conversion, though you'll need to thin them down quite a bit to look right. These are normally what I use when backdating the AMT kit to 'four eye' specs, because I always seem to have one of those grilles lying around unused. Plus, they have a thin outer bezel already in place- one last thing to hunt for or make for the conversion.

 

Basically, just do an online search for '58 to '60 C-Series trucks, study the headlights a little, get a feel for how they look, and then dig around in your spares box and see if you have something that'll work.

[mk11]

C-series '60 Mercury reference picture post: http://www.modelcars...ic=36901&page=3

 

Sorry for the double picture post, Casey. This is where this pic of the four-eyed Merc was intended to be posted to show the headlite trim detail but I got mixed up with the other thread and posted it there. 

 

 

mike

Edited by mk11, 31 March 2013 - 09:25 AM.