Warren D

After relocating the wrecker body to the GMC General build, I had a perfectly good First Gear Mack cab and chassis. It seemed a shame to let it sit so I decided to use a dump body I got from AITM a while back and make a dump truck out of it. Primer and paint are next, then I'll fix up the rear of the chassis with brake lights and mud flaps. The factory painted door logos came off with some old Pollyscale decal lifter/remover. Not sure what's in the stuff but it took off the logos without touching the base paint.

Progress shot, chassis is coming along, still need to trim the length at the rear, fit the cab and stacks to see where the tanks will land. Then I have to fit the hood hinges to the new bumper. I like the look of the 11x22's!

Chassis is coming along, running into the usual issues of fit but I've made it work. I'll have a few pics in a few days. I decided to remove the kit rear axle stubs and use metal axles as the weight of the wrecker body would probably break or warp the plastic over time. If you've built this kit, you know that those rear axles are only half supported. I'm going with 11x22's as I like the look of a larger wheel/tire. The General kit comes with 10x20's. I'm re-working the brake drums etc to get the different wheels and tires mated to the chassis. Engine is done, needs paint, cab and hood are close to paint but I may hold off until I get the wrecker body ready and paint everything at the same time......I learned the hard way with the orange Husky, painted the fenders 6 months after the cab and even though the paint came from the same bottle the color was noticably different.

I'll be following this as most of my Brockway builds have been on the A-car chassis.

They look great!

Coming along nicely!

Thanks everyone, I'm happy with the way it came out.

Thanks for all the kind words!

That looks great, the left rear looks a little low on air though....

Not exactly kit stock, AITM short hood.

Starting the next project, a GMC General Wrecker. I like the look of the former Jamie Davis General so here goes. AMT General kit and a Holmes wrecker off a First Gear Mack wrecker. I used the same wrecker body for the Brockway wrecker I did a couple of years ago. This one will have a weighted bumper out front and a few other little things. It will be basically patterned after Jamie's but as I'm not up to scratch building a Holmes 1601, it'll have a 750 lattice boom. First thing i'm finding is the AMT kit has some issues, biggest one so far is no locating pins on the front springs and the left side front shock needs a new mounting hole on the frame, it's off by about 1/8 inch. I'm sure there will be other issues as I progress.....

Looks great!

Very well done!

Calling it done:

Calling this one done. AMT Autocar Dump kit with AITM Brockway 361 cab,hood, tanks, wheels and tires. Paint is Testors Aztek Pearl metallic blue, silver blue is custom blend of the blue pearl and silver pearl. Dump body is Pollyscale silver. I have yet to get the metallic pearls to photograph well. I added exhaust exits to the back of the dump box as I remembered growing up.

Title says it all.

Great job! I like those, always wanted to build one. I want a real one, too!

Very well done!

Looks good!

Came out great. I've e-mailed them several times in the past year or two, I've wanted to get one, no one ever replies.

Progress shot. Chassis is painted along with the cab. Fenders have also been painted and ready to install when the cab is ready. Dump box almost ready for the frame, once on will need to pipe the exhaust to the dump body. So far so good, colors are silver blue pearl and dark blue pearl, both metallics.

Nice color choice!

Very well done! Those single screw COE's always looked dangerous to me, must have been a rough ride with that short WB.

I'll be taking note of your mods for when I get to mine.

It might qualify for it's own zip code!