Pete68

Steve it wasn’t new but it was pretty. It was a 1979 and this was in 1995. My first big truck I owned besides my antique show trucks. I was 26 years old and sitting in that seat after I bought it in the driveway I felt like I had the world by the tail. I’ll dig up some pics of it and post them and may tell a few stories about the old girl for you as I go along.

I bought this built Ertl International Transtar II model last winter on eBay for a very reasonable price and got an extra cab out of the deal too. The paint and decals on the cab to me look fine so I’m going to leave them alone. I’ll be painting the frame a tan color and reworking the front axle. Probably going to keep the rear wheels don’t know yet but if I do they will be painted white. Hope I can get this Eagle to fly again. It was 30 years ago this week that I bought my Real 1.1 1979 International Transtar Eagle so I thought it would be fit to start this project. Hope you ride along.

Scott’s Model repair shop is the best one in our area and has been for years even before I started building model trucks 😂

Jerry great choice. This is just my opinion Frame Semi gloss Black wheels with gray rings go with the original interior colors semi gloss black/ soft gold Dullcoat the chrome to calm it down Paint the sides of the insert gill semi black

Double checked looks good

The White panels you are talking about are called Shutters they control the airflow to the Radiator. On some trucks I’ve drove when these Shutters would close it sounded like a Jet engine sucking in air because it made the fan work harder you definitely knew when those shutters closed. When they opened again it was like the truck was breathing a sign of relief. This mostly happened on old Mack’s that I drove and a 1969 Brockway 360. What was cool is back in the day drivers would paint something on the shutters like a letter or something. A friend of my dads had “Hobo” painted on his with a Hobo character painted on them it was pretty neat when they were open you couldn’t see it when closed you could.

If you know how to drive a DD right they don’t leak much oil either.

Nice updates and the plumbing looks great.

Thanks for the compliment I appreciate it and stopping by. Glad you like the avatar it’s been my favorite so for.

Actually I shortened the frame. Thanks for the compliment.

That’s good to hear Scott I always enjoyed your restorations for many years.

Nice combo Dan looking forward to the build.

Nice restoration Scott tanks looks really good. Are you going to restore another one of your gems?

Beautiful finish Ken. All that hard work paid off

Thanks I appreciate it glad you dropped it.

They sold them in their separate boxes wrapped together with the exclusive Sears stickers on the box.

Yes it was you could only get it through the catalog Wish Book.

That will look good Scott. Years ago on the plastic cowboy site someone built a red triaxle one think it was a brick truck.

Looking very sweet Ken.

Looking good Scott nice updates.

Could this be a Mixer?? I built one several years ago shorten the Rex drum.

Thanks I appreciate it here’s some pics of it on my O Scale layout.

Thanks for the complement I appreciate it and stopping by.

Thanks I appreciate your compliment and stopping by.

Nice looking trailer Brian goes well with the Pete. Thanks for sharing.