PettyKW43

Without a doubt you are my favourite builder , not scared to build anything!

Spent over 20 years in the towing business and even running the winch everyday and hundreds of time a day you would see the rusty colors peaking through the shine of the bare metal cable..

This is a fabulous build in the works ! I have always wanted to do one of these , at some point I will after seeing this! Suggestion in regards to the cable, most steel cable ends up rusty . Even cable that’s used lots , you will see rust undertones with a semi polished steel look.

The TV series truck by studying footage and pictures of the restored truck , it appears that it was equipped with 24.5 wheels which makes all 1/25 kit wheels too small. I also have this build in the works . Initially I had planned to use the rear wheels from the AMT Freightliner Kit ( these are the best looking IMO kit wheels) which are 22.5 . And I was going to use the front wheels out of the ERTL/ AMT 4300 Transtar kit and use the ERTL tires ( old MPC tooled) . Tires are 11:00x20 but when put on the Freightliner rims do look right . I may go with aftermarket wheels and tires yet but I do like staying with kit stuff. Those are my thoughts.

I have never considered doing trucks like this but this is really interesting! I do like medium/ heavy trucks based on pickup cabs as well . Will be watching, great build so far!

Thank you very much! Will be purchasing this one for sure!

This is a lesson in scratch building ! I have learned a lot already, what does the tool you use for making rivits look like ?

I agree with you on these ! I am doing both a stretched Peterbilt and a dressed down Kenworth right now , great little kits !

Kerry ,Shoot me an email on Wilson suspension if you’re still looking, we can swap something I’m sure!

Pm me ! I have what you need.

Thanks for the info guys!

No they were only in the AMT Kenworth Kit . A worse case scenario is staying with how the original builder did it, stock spoke front rims with the 10:00 x 20 vinyl tires and narrow outer rings or fudging it and using the 22 inch spoke rims from the Diamond Reo and the tires and outer rings from the Autocar Dump front floats!

This is actually a really cool idea ! And there are many based on retired older highway tractors so the sky is the limit as to what one could do with this subject!

I’m restoring a builtup if this kit and want to put the original float tires up front , the vinyl tires from the Autocar are too big for the mixer rims( kit plastic tires are made to fit a 20 inch rim).

Does anyone out there have the front plastic tires from the AMT Kenworth/Challenge Mixer Kit that you would be interested in selling?