DRIPTROIT 71

Your work never ceases to amaze me!

Looks great! I like the chains!

Wow! That really looks good! The color is perfect! It just looks so vintage, it is perfect! Excellent work! I like it!!

Propane powered truck.

Thanks Carl. These trucks were used by CF to help push trucks over Donner pass in the snow. I’m not sure how well they worked, but Roadway and other companies had them as well.

Thanks Tommy, I didn’t catch that detail until I went to put the front numbers on. Also, the earlier cab, at least the one in reference, is a low mount cab and doesn’t have the right front vent, and less metal under the headlights l. Since this was a Johnny Cash type truck anyway, and I wanted to make sure that I had room for the 903, I left it a high cab. Hopefully it will make a decent representation when it is finished though.

It is not perfect by no means, but it is coming along. With very limited reference pictures, I can’t make an exact replica of the reference truck, so I am attempting to create a truck that CF could have had. This truck will have a different number. I tried to make the interior as base looking as possible, I removed most of the gauges. It took every stick of butter that we had, but I was able to squeeze in a VT 903 Cummins (which I understand that CF liked) backed by a 5 speed Spicer.

Looks awesome!

Beautiful tanker! Excellent work!

Better and better!!

Great improvement on the wipers!

Thanks Tom! Thanks! I was on the fence about the fifth wheel. Thanks!! Thanks Tommy! Thanks Don! Thanks Ken!

Thanks Ken!

Came out very nice! Looks great! It might have fought you, but you definitely won! Excellent work! I like it!

Nice looking dump truck! I like the colors! Nice work!

Looks great! Very nice work!

Very nice, very clean build, looks great! Nice work!

Those are definitely overload or helper springs. I have seen a ton of them over the years. Probably from somewhere like JC Whitney. I have seen these on plenty of big cars, four doors and wagons, but it is also possible that they were used for traction as well.

Made me laugh anyway.

Excellent work and scratch building for sure! The inside of your trailer looks much better than I usually get the outside!? I am really looking forward to seeing this one finished! I am glad that you are working on it again! Thank you for posting your progress! It is looking awesome!

Thanks Jeff, that is one of the reasons that I like lacquer. I thought that it may melt the clear decal material under the rivets though.

This looks better every time I see it! The weathering looks great!

Beautiful build! Hard to believe you pulled it off so fast. Very nice work!

That just looks awesome!

I like your weathering! Looks good!