DRIPTROIT 71

You have really got that drop deck looking good!! Great work!

Very nice work Ken! Looks great!!

Looks good Pat!!

I seem to have that problem with most of the popular aftermarket vendors who are still in business, with a few exceptions.The last few orders from Paul have been pretty fast though. The only major problem that I had was on my second order from him that somehow got lost in the mail, but Paul made it good by sending out another order, even though it wasn’t his fault. The lost package eventually showed up too, so I just paid for the second one, as it wasn’t cost effective to pay shipping to Canada to send it back.

There was no change to the trailer, only decals and added accessories. My Mayflower trailer was a race trailer kit.

Thanks Kerry! JT helped pick the color.

Looks Awesome!!

Trailer looks great!

That’s him. I’ve made several purchases from him.

I didn’t know that this place existed until now, but I have actually purchased a set of their tires and one of the 6v-71 engines they list from a supplier on EBay named stsupply out of Canada. He has had some of the other products from their website along with a lot of other model truck related products including items from Illini replicas, Scenes Unlimited, Dan’s models, and others.

This arrived today. I found it on EBay. Original AMT T519 Kenworth W925 with torsion bar suspension; $27.75 + shipping.

Thanks!! They have a lot more f cool stuff!! I didn’t know that they existed.

Oooo! Cool!! Where from???

This one is a real eye catcher!

Working on the top. Got it probably about as close as I am going to get it. It is not perfect, but much closer than it was. Before: After: As you can see the curvature in the windshield on the casting isn’t 100% like the 1:1 which does affect the look of the top:

Thanks, my current project is getting a Detroit. I couldn’t go too long without building one.? Thanks Jim!!

Awesome looking Emeryville Jim! When I first saw it last night on Flickr, the paint job really caught my eye. You really captured the look of one of these trucks! Excellent work!

The push bumper on our old wrecker was 1/4 steel with around 1/4 thick rubber on the front. The top, bottom and sides were rolled 90 degrees with about a 2” lip on the sides and about a 3-4” lip top and bottom. It was not completely flat. It angled backwards on the outside. It also had plates on the inside for mounting, making the bumper about 3-4” thick. It was pretty heavy and one of the main reasons we installed it was for a counter balance when towing, as our wrecker had a short wheelbase. We were even going to mount weights in the hollow back side of the bumper, but I don’t think that we ever did. My point is that as said before, I don’t think that using thicker stock would be out of scale. Ours was factory made, but there were also many homemade versions as well. Use your reference pictures, but these varied quite a bit so don’t stress too much about unknown factors. There may have even been variations in the show. If I remember right, seemed like they had a different wrecker every week.?

Those sprockets look amazing!

I like it!!

I always enjoy looking in on your shop Pat. Glad to see it open again for business. So much to see!

That is one sharp looking rig!!

Looks amazing!

Looks great Charles.

Looking forward to seeing more! I’m an outside sprayer too. While I’m a little farther south, it has been tending to rain all the time here. It often causes me to get into a little too much of a hurry to paint when the weather is actually good. And then the humidity is terrible most of the summer. Somehow we manage to get a decent paint job in though.