dptydawg

_{Very nice work. Your shop looks very good}

_Carl

sharp looking truck, Dan. Those big Horns were a tough truck in their day. For some reason though they were not very popular with fleet owners. I like the display base that you have.

carl

Hi Bob

I'm sure that you have checked out this site as part of your references but others might be interested in just what the Smith brothers turned out.

http://www.coachbuil...smith/smith.htm

I was talking with an old time Labatt's driver on the weekend and he said that at one tiime they had a Smith brothers custom wrecker that had the streamliner cab, but it was sold reather than restored.

You are making great progress on your tractor. Good work on the engine.

Carl

Bob, quite a few years back Old autos  magaxine did an extensive article on the restoration of the LaBatt's truck. I don't know if they have an archive section and I don't know when it was published, but it might be worthwhile checking with them for reference material. You can fine them at http://www.oldautos.ca/

You are progressing quite nicely with this project.

Carl

There is a diecast 1/25th scale Cat 3516B Genset made by Northcot. It can be detailed up quite nicely

Revel Germany also made a V10 genset as a load for their 6 axle flatdeck

It is very basic and need a lot of work to detail it out. I think that this may have been patterned off a Sultzer V12 motor but it was condensed to fit the box.

Carl