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Very well done! Great thinking on the hood letters.

Be nice to see an exclusive Mercury truck photoetch fret, with representatives of each generation This '68' will be another great one in their bump series for the mass market facebook assembler crowd but the adult market... is still looking.

Does anyone make that color anymore ?

Sure, through places like Dearborn Steel Tubing, like they did with the F100XL drag truck 427. There were no correct engine mounts in the catalogs before the F-series FE came on-line in the summer of '64.

True, there must have been test mules for the FE in the earlier sixties trucks, but it didn't replace the Y block officially til '65. Alternators, twin I beams and the 240/300 six made their first appearance that year too.

You'll never guess what happened here.... Friend with an old farmhouse found this on the floor one day; knocked off the bookcase at the bottom of the stairs. Looked a little further and sure enough, evidence of something making laps around the kitchen. They're such calm, collected little critters. Imagine one on a toluene high... Investigating further, he found they'd chewed through the drywall in the attic into a closet and commenced touring the house. He picked up a rat zapper to place at the bottom of the stairs and six visitors later, peace was restored

Box might work on other years as well...

Danged if you do, danged if you don't

There's a few sites that show details/info on where it was filmed; a lot of it around Calgary. https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,65423

New unbuilt one currently on offer in the trade section

A couple of great reference books written by noted historian Perry Zavitz help fill in the gaps...

Ringside seat for some aerial combat... a golden hawk running off a couple of scruffy crows Too bad I didn't have a camera handy. A couple of years ago, a hawk nailed a magpie out of the sun and rode it screaming into the ground.

Best (and last) one he had was in a walkout lower floor.

A drive down the old highway, complete with cambered curves still intact ... and a couple of afternoons massaging an old long-shedded 44 finally resulted in a very smooth running tractor Had to resort to swapping carbs with a stuck parts tractor; a blessing that it was actually clean and had new floats. Worked on it with an 85 yr old guy, one of those veterans that's worth his weight in gold; has the energy of a forty yr old.

Layout of dad's would often grow to fill available space; often a large percentage of basement.

Until now, most of the aftermarket cabs were based on the moeb trucks. Some good engineering in those kits but they somehow seriously muffed the proportional translation from 1:1 to scale. These prints look beautifully done, capturing most of the subtleties moeb missed. Right down to the correct heater controls on the dash that were '67 only. Just need to convert the '68 inner door handles to the lever '67 type.

Thanks for bringing us along on this fascinating project, Ian. Just curious to know if you've ever come across the movie 'Fast Company'. It was an early cronenberger effort filmed in '78 at the Calgary and Edmonton dragstrips. It looks like it might be a great reference for some of the obscure details on these cars. Apparently Bonin had a brief cameo. Dad was a few years older than him but knew him through the red deer car clubs. The guys had a get-together a few years ago with Bonin present and I sure kick myself for missing the opportunity to go along.

He sure had a great run. His movie 'Short Time' had a great chase...

A wee stroll doon ta tha crik, trees coming alive with leaves unfurling and releasing that natural perfume, is worth every minute.

Guess they're just going to anonymize it. A nice scenic or western background would ground it nicely...

Part of it maybe. We kinda know why Mssrs Coulter, Budniewski and Winspear got their names on decals, but what's the connection here? I'm just waiting to hear how an old Detroit arena ties in with a vintage Canadian market truck

Care to enlighten us? We're all ears...

Very fitting... an art gallery logo on an artistic impression of a Ford truck