DRIPTROIT 71

Thanks for all the comments guys! I’m finally starting this one. The AMT day cab set up is a 63” cab, the AMT sleeper cab is an 86” cab. My reference truck appears to be a 72” cab. I figured that these cabs fit together poorly, so why not go for it and make it right. 63”cab: 86” cab: 72” cab

Looks good, but you may want to fix some of the oil leaks before you put it on display. It might make a mess.?

That is really looking good!!

Very nice Jeep! Excellent work on this one for sure!

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Thanks Carl!!

Wow! That looks awesome!!

That really looks good!!

This one is going to be good!!

Looks great! I like the steel hood! I still have one of those to get to one day.

Thanks!! Thanks Jim!! Thanks Larry!! Thanks Warren! The tandems were a rough ride bobtail, I can’t imagine a single axle. Thanks Dave! Thanks Dan! I’m glad that you brought up the wipers. The trucks that I had experience with had separate wiper motors. These did not. The wiper has been fixed now and they match. Thanks Alex! The grille comes up on Ebay every so often.

This one is “Under Glass” thanks to everyone who commented along the way.

Thanks Tom! I hope to get another grille sometime. No trailer for now, room doesn’t allow many trailers. The headlights stick out a little too far and are slightly too big in diameter too. I didn’t address the diameter issue, but I do believe the recessing them also helped to hide the diameter issue a little. I’m glad that you made these grilles! They look great! Thanks again! Thanks Mario!!

This was built from the new issue of this kit. I back dated the cab a little. Cummins NH 230 from parts bin. Rear suspension from Louisville kit. The grille is from Tom “Repstock”. The Glosson decals are from Charles Rowley “Chariots of Fire.” I have been wanting this build for a long time, but was held up by decals. A big thanks to Charles for the help with that. I remember seeing these a lot. I even knew at least one of their drivers. In the very early 70s Glosson purchased 162 C-O 4070a and C-O F4070a model trucks. I found a reference picture from later of a truck that looks just like this. With the grille whited out and the bumper cut off, I assume that it has been wrecked and repaired. This build is to depict it fresh out of the paint shop after repair.

Thanks! This one came from a small window California Hauler kit. The one that I couldn’t get rid of the red bleeding through came out of one of the DM Mack kits.

This one is pretty much done.

I don’t happen to have any water based paint at the moment. I did add a couple of coats of Krylon Rust Tough gloss white enamel and then a couple of coats of Krylon Cover Max flat white enamel and it is still just as pink. I found the sure fire fix; I found an a/c molded in white.?

Well, I figured out the sure solution to my pink a/c unit, start over with one molded in white.? The molded in red unit had 2 coats of black primer, then 3 coats of gloss white lacquer, then 2 coats of metallic silver lacquer, then 2 coats of gloss black lacquer, then 2 coats of silver lacquer, then 3 coats of gloss white lacquer, then 3 coats of Krylon Rust Tough gloss white enamel, and finally 3 coats of Krylon flat white Cover Max enamel, and it was still just as pink. I’m making a little progress though. I recessed the headlights a little because I ever thought that they looked exactly right on this kit and then I noticed that they were out too far. I think that it helped the look some.

That sure is a monster!! And it doesn’t even have the crane yet.?Excellent fabrication!

This is really the first time that I have ran into this, but it is definitely not a color transparency problem. I usually like to use hot lacquer paint. I was painting a roof mount A/C for my 4070A. The A/C was molded in red. I primed it black and painted it white. It turned out with a pink tint. I then painted it silver, then gloss black, then silver again, and then white. It was now a slightly lighter shade of pink. No red was really visible with the black primer, the silver paint or the black paint. All of those colors should have been enough to cover up the red. Amazingly the red dye seems to bleed through all those coats of paint.

Getting closer to the finish line. The roof a/c is being a little aggravating. It was molded in red. I primed it black and painted it white and it had a pink tint to it. I then painted it silver, then gloss back, then silver, then white and now it has a slightly less pink tint. It may just have to live like it is.

Looks good! Whichever way you go on the fenders will look great I’m sure. I personally would leave the round fenders and just add the step, but I like to be different.?

Looking good!

From what I understand this cab was designed by Alexis De Sachknoffsky. It dates back to 1936. It was used into the early 60s when the “Driver Comfort Cab” became available as a deluxe option and later completely replaced the older small cab. The newer cab is basically the same cab found in the AMT Western Star, Autocar and Road Boss kits. This cab went on into the 80s with minor changes along the way. Again, this is my understanding and if anyone has better info feel free to share.