Joe Thomas

Located in Colonial Heights VA, just south of Richmond on I-95. We were there today, unbelivable. This is a man's personal collection. You have to see it to believe it. Here are some pics I took today. 70000 sq ft of tractors, big rigs, cars, and memorabilia. There is a one hour plus youtube video taken by someone else showing the whole museum. Search for "keystone tractor" on youtube. If you go, make sure you talk to "Bones", the curator, he knows everything about the museum. Also a good bbq resteraunt on site Hit their webpage for more info.

Cooter's toe truck will be a combination of the 1969 moebius Ford pickup and the midnite cowboy wrecker body. Found Cooter's garage decals on eBay. The d of h Cooter's model from mpc is too expensive and not really representative of the actual truck. Sorry the pic is upside down.

Gator, Know what you mean having built one before.

Next is Cooters wrecker.

Techman, Yes

Left to right- General Lee, Sheriff Roscoe's patrol car, Daisy's first car, & Daisy's Jeep. Enjoy

Next up, SD version.

Completed the Wilson livestock trailer today. The rollup door took a little trimming to fit and a some silicone lube to ease it along.

I had an old can dated 2011. When sprayed it had metallic flakes in the paint and produced a pretty good chrome look. Used it all and bought a new can today, what a disappointment, more grey than chrome. Also had a different odor. Thanks EPA.

Rick, rental contract is in the mail. Thx for the compliments. In the works is the livestock trailer to finish the rig.

Nothingasfineasw9 It is painted with an industrial paint.

Finished today. Made the Ryder version so it can be used to haul various trailers. Had some fun getting the exhaust and intake air tubes to fit but after some surgery it all went together. Not an easy build. Stripped and painted the wheels white for that rental truck look.

BuilderX, No problem

Driptroit71: Thx, The problem is the instructions are wrong, it can't be assembled as shown, no room and the drag link won't line up. The part with the red arrow in the attached pic is upside down and the flat part marked with the Orange arrow should be glued to the axel, not the box as shown. See pics. I don't see any other way to get the drag link to line up.

Never mind, figured it out. Had to trim some molded in detail to get it to fit. Another question, where does the steering box go? The instructions show it attached to the front axel???????

Started to build and ran into a problem with the engine mount. The kit instructions are kind of vague. Anyone have a pic showing the fitment of the mount to the frame? Thx

Thanks Landman

Added an escort vehicle to the oversized load. Made the light bar for the suburban snap kit from scraps.

Complete th DM800 to go with the trailer. Overall length is 3 feet.

Tbill, Used duplicolor perfect match universal chrome purchased at advanced auto parts.

Finished tractor and trailer. Used a blackened chain from Hobby Lobby as opposed to the copper colored chain supplied with the kit for the hold downs. Other then that, bone stock. The box art shows the same combo of tractor and trailer.

Ok, thanks. I think we can close this out now knowing all the history.

Here are a couple of pics of the box. Maybe someone can figure out the made in Denmark reference. No copywrite date on box or instructions .

Fixed the wheel alignment by some judicious bending of the tie rod end connections on the knuckles. Before and after pics.