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DRIPTROIT 71

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  1. That is a real beauty!! I like everything about it!! I like the green clearance lights! Where did you get the bed?
  2. This is an old Illini Replicas cab on the Amt Peterbilt frame. It has the Ertl IH air ride with one drive axle and a tag axle. The 318 Detroit is from the Peterbilt kit. The trailer is from Keystone with Lindberg flatbed suspension and landing gear. I added a wood deck.
  3. Thanks Carl! Thanks Chris! Thanks! Thanks!
  4. Awesome Dump Truck! Excellent work!
  5. Looks great! Nice work!
  6. First of all, excellent work on this. It looks great! Excellent background choice! The pictures look like the real thing! Beautiful!
  7. Beautiful cabover Ken! Nice work!
  8. Thanks Dan!! Thanks Gilles! There was a 352 on the internet for sale with one rear window like this one, that is where the idea came from.
  9. Thanks Landon!! Thanks Victor!! The wood was .030" thick, so I framed out the top with .030" styrene to make it flush when finished. I do like the way it turned out.
  10. Very nice build Pat!! I like it!!
  11. Top notch work!! A real beauty!!
  12. Very nice job! You don't see these old Marmons in scale very often.
  13. Just to add a little to what has already been said. Wheel diameter is measured where the bead of the tire sits on the rim. Split rims have a taller lip around the edge than tubeless rims which sometimes makes them appear larger than they are sometimes. As already said, tubeless rims are generally 22.5” or 24.5” and sometimes 19.5” on lighter duty and some lift axles. Split rims, which ran tubes were usually 20”, 22” or 24”. 20” split rims and 22.5 tubeless rims fit the same spokes on spoke type wheels. As already stated both were available and even popular from the 70s - the 90s, at least around here. Most AMT kits are modeled after split rims including the Freightliner.
  14. Glad to this one coming together! Can you take two AMT Mercury sleeper and make the one that you want?
  15. It was 3d printed from a former vendor here on the forum. Unfortunately he is no longer in business. Texas 3d Custom offers a few of the v6 engines, but I’m not sure if they offer a stock version or not.
  16. Nice looking rig!! I like your Farmall avatar as well!
  17. Thanks Dave!! Thanks Tommy!! Thanks Brian!!
  18. Thanks Matt!! Thanks Ronald!! This one dodges the scales.😁 Thanks Brian!!
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