DRIPTROIT 71

I haven’t checked in on this one in a little while! WOW!!!!! Francis, you never cease to amaze me! You don’t miss a detail!! This is beyond art or craftsmanship. I don’t think that there is a word to describe this level of excellence. Truly amazing work! I’m looking forward to seeing more of this one!!

This will be good!

I will be starting this one later this year. I still have to finish the Paystar and I have a 4070a project ahead of this one. I have been wanting to build this for a long time, so here goes. This kit is new, but I can’t get close enough to it yet to get it out until we finish getting all the Christmas stuff packed back up. These trucks were used to push trucks over the mountain in the snow.

I know that there are already a couple of Freightliners in the mix, but put me down for a CF Freightliner Pusher truck. I will go ahead and start a build thread, but it will be later in the year before I start it.

It was a actually a “buy it now” so I don’t think that it was more money. I did suggested that maybe the other buyer was a better customer than me though. I really don’t know how much I have spent with them over the years, but I’m sure it is well over $1,000. I don’t want to share their name on the off chance that they honestly made a mistake. After all, I had been reasonably satisfied for 25 years, for the most part anyway. My real gripe is how short and what I felt like was a rude response given to me when inquired further. I felt like I had been a good customer and even recommended several customers to them over the years. They could of said “we made a mistake and didn’t notice that your purchase was first” if that is what happened. With that being said, I am stubborn enough that I won’t spend another nickel with them. I have more projects than I will ever finish anyway. Again it is not because of a mistake, but I was how they responded to my inquiry.

I hope to build a round bezel 4300 some day. The cool thing about a square bezel 4200 is that I don’t think that I have seen anyone do a model of one. Either way it will be cool.

I have been dealing with a particular aftermarket company for 25 years. They have switched most of their business to Ebay in the past several years. Recently two very rare resin truck cabs were listed. They were a bit pricey, but I bit the bullet and bought one. The other remained posted another 21 hours. The next day I got a message saying that they were sorry, but they posted two by mistake and only had one and it had sold. They said that they would refund my money. I responded back, that I had purchased mine a whole day prior to the other with no response. After my refund cleared, I sent another message letting them know that the refund cleared and addressed once again that I had purchased the item the day before the other sold. The response that I received was; “I told you we were sorry.” Now I understand that mistakes happen, but after 25 years of business and a lot of money spent over the years, I would liked to have had a better explanation than; “I told you we were sorry” or at least a nicer one. Well it irked me anyway.

Thank you Jeff for hosting this year!!

That really looks great!! I like it!!!

Yes.

Here is a picture of an old Sundrop truck with the bed off.

Looks like this one is going to be a very cool project!

Cool project! Looking forward to seeing more!

I’m really looking forward to seeing this one come together!!

Looks like a great project!

This one will be good!! Are you doing the dropped frame on this one?

Looking forward to seeing more!

Great project!!

Are you going with square or round headlight bezels?

I’m concerned that you might be allergic to hay, so PM me your address. They are off a used truck, but they are yours if you want them.

That is one beautiful General!! Excellent work!

I really like this one! Nice work!!

Very interesting!! Looks great! Nice work!!

Sharp looking build! Very nice work!!

Looks great!! The outside shots really look good! Nice work!