redneckrigger

Very nicely done!

Has anyone heard from 426-Hemi? I am also looking to get in touch with him. Thanks

Reference pictures are always welcome!

WOW! THAT is a tremendous batch of reference photos. Thank you for sharing them. LOVE Cabovers!

I am interested, but I sure would rather see eight lug rims! Very nice work!

Your attention to detail is tremendous, and the quality of work is wild! I am also building one of these and hit a roadblock..................more of a brain block actually a while ago. This thread and your work is what I needed to get me going again. NICE!!!

Extremely nice work!!!!!

A company I used to work for had a clone of that truck, in red, out in the back just sitting there for years. I asked, one day, if it was for sale. Had a gold colored V-8 engine, if I remember correctly. NO was the resounding answer. Live and learn, I guess. That company NEVER sold anything. And they kept to their routine with the Reo. Within a week, the owner had a guy out in the back cutting it up into little bitty pieces. Gone. After paying a union welder to cut it up, and adding in scrap price, it probably cost him 500 bucks to get rid of it. I would have GLADLY paid that or more, as it still ran. Some people just are stupid. That guy did the same thing with MANY old pieces of iron. The list would make you cry.

I used to go to Toledo and the Maumee center for every show way back in the day. And I saw the Eisbrenner bodies and always wanted to buy one, but never dropped the coin. Truly cutting edge stuff in the day. There was also a rather poorly done knockoff by Rick Manz out of Arizona, I think, that was of a VERY brittle low quality resin available for a while. I built the White 3000 in my Avatar from a Manz resin, and it was a huge challenge, as it was thick THICK, and hard to work, but, as it was the only 3000 I could find, it worked, and it still survives over 30 years later. The builds all you fellows have done from those Seagrave casts are unbelievable!

Bill, ALL of Joseph's parts are exactly that, the best in the business!

Those are absolutely awesome reference photos! Thanks for making them available to us!!!!

Check out Model Car Worlds automotive finishes on this link: http://mcwfinishes.com/paint/catalog/air-brush/misc/. Look for American LaFrance Lime Yellow for fire trucks, MCW #1018. I used to run a body shop and did a few trucks in this exact color, both using PPG and Dupont systems. If memory serves me right, it was PPG #82027. Back when I was Chief of the Savoy Fire Department, we even built a tanker in my shop from a military 5 ton M52 Mack powered tractor, and did it in that color. We had recently purchased a Seagrave FWD Detroit 8V-71 powered engine in the same color. We bought the Seagrave from a department in lower New York state. They missed her so much, they tracked her down when Savoy sold her and got her back in her original home as a parade truck. The M52 is also still doing her duty as a tanker for the Warwick, MA FD. We painted the M52 that color because the engine came that way, and we didn't want her to be all alone in the crowd of red trucks we had! Both were great trucks that sadly have found new homes!

THANK you! That shows me plenty on the radiator area, just now need to find references on the fan drive under the cab, that runs along the left side of the engine. THANKS AGAIN!!

I'm figuring on a beavertail version of the AMT lowboy, with a backdating to make it look more period. But THAT is a project for another day!

Awesome Charles, I will check them out. I hadn't gotten that far yet but it sure was going to be a thing that I had no idea where to look. THANK YOU!!! And, no, I will pass on the fries 'cause I'm on a diet, but I WILL have a shake...........if that were a real truck, it would be a ground shaker!

That is superb work, and great photography as well, by the way!

Great line up of trucks! Keep us posted! But, gotta ask............SPRING???? I wish! We got 47" of snow last Wednesday, and are due for another 18-24 tonite. Dang!

Always loved Mustangs, and the Boss most of all. You captured it perfectly!

Gregg, as always, thank you for the efforts in the face of so much going on. The newest issue arrived, as i knew it would, and is well worth the wait. It is always great to see............THANKS! Carry on sir!

I am looking for reference material for a White 3000 with the Cummins diesel engine with the rear mounted radiator and rear drive fans. I am wanting to build one of these, but need references of the radiator, and the shaft driven fans. Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

I have a resin cab by Flintstone, a resin one by Rick Manz, a few of the Danbury ones, and one resin one by Ron Cash. The resin ones are all a bit different in one way or another. The Danbury ones does look similar to Flinstones, but is, at least to my opinion, not exactly the same. The one in my avatar is by Manz..............a VERY hard piece to work as it was of a grainy resin, and was brittle. But, that was built 30 years ago and still survives.

Using the V8 from the DM-800

Yeah, got some fine tuning to do for sure..............but it's one step at a time.................SLOWLY!

Just got back to the build this week, as the guys in the shop had to get the DM600 ready for the upcoming construction season, and the old timer got shoved to the back burner, yet again. I will have some more photos soon. Got the winch built up, decided to use a hydraulic drive as I can't find something satisfactory to use for the chain drive to look right. So, a hydraulic pump, and a Tulsa hydraulic winch from Moluminum will do the job. Got the piping and wiring done from the cab back, a firewall fitted, the steering fitted up, a tapered tail and roller for the trailer, the interior built up, window channels done as suggested previously by 41chevy, and a bunch more little things done. Pretty much decided on a red cab with black fenders and chassis, but I DID just see a beautiful photo of a bright chrome yellow B81 with red chassis.......................hhmmmmmmm!