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  1. leafsprings2
    Here is a video of one of the PIE early Pete Cabovers
  2. leafsprings2
    Great looking Pete cabover, back in the day, most were long haul fleet trucks, PIE and Navajo liked to run these with big drom boxes and super long frames. Excellent paint job and detail work, would look sharp with a set of doubles!
  3. leafsprings2
    Looks very big and impressive! Thanks for doing the Big Horn, an important, but short lived, piece of Dodge truck history. Would have been a nice kit if AMT would have covered it back in the 70's. Great color choices. I have found that using larger 22" tires will help fill the gap on larger front fenders.
  4. leafsprings2
    Excellent builds, such different subjects, the extended Pete a prized and maintained possession, the GMC, a gov owned workhorse that has never been given attention it's entire life. Beautiful graphics and paint scheme work on the wrecker, a very realistic look back in the day. Really like paint and finish on the GMC, grill detail work is spot on, wheels are a perfect match for a 2 ton.
  5. leafsprings2
    Very nice clean job, like the paint scheme, Ford was big into tu tones, even the different shades of similar color tu tones, in this era.
  6. leafsprings2
    Excellent job putting this heavy-duty Mack dumper together, detailing work is super impressive. Paint scheme really pops on this one, both interior and exterior. This build reminds of us why these early Macks were so popular back in the day, beautifully sculptured styling blended with toughness.
  7. leafsprings2
    Excellent cracker box build. Global cab looks very good. Great choice using an Astro frame, wheels and WF single drive, paint scheme is perfect, especially like the front bumper paint treatment, the way GMC would have done it at the factory.
  8. leafsprings2
    Excellent job on this kit, paint scheme and detailing work is outstanding, has the 70's period look!
  9. leafsprings2
    Great job on the AMT's first authentic big rig kit, without the success of this kit, the others would never would have came. Excellent detailing really adds to the build quality, especially like the interior work, looks factory Peterbilt!
  10. leafsprings2
    Great job on the General, fleet trucks always have a way of looking good without chrome. Under hood detailing is super!
  11. leafsprings2
    Great job, quality of work is outstanding!
  12. leafsprings2
    Great looking build, detailing work is outstanding! Really like the mirror upgrade, front fender correction and paint scheme!
  13. leafsprings2
    The conversion was well worth the effort, looks great.
  14. leafsprings2
    Great looking Macks, detail work is very impressive for 1/32! Like the contrasts between owner operator and fleet truck.
  15. leafsprings2
    Another big gasser!
  16. leafsprings2
    Suspension system looks similar to the Reyco type used on the WF DD. I'm thinking Garwood refuse body🙂
  17. leafsprings2
    Nice to see one of these Stratos, one of the best engineered kits out there. Great job on the vintage KW, color combo looks very 50's.
  18. leafsprings2
    Right, a great conversion kit to a '57. Just a grill change won't work, hood, fenders and bumper used are completely different than that of a '60. Hopefully we see a '58 and '59 conversion kit from Best Model Car Parts also, because we won't see it from AMT.
  19. leafsprings2
    Back in the day wide base steel wheels and 12-16.5" tires were popular with camper pickups, usually just used on rear only with standard narrow wheels on front. Fireball has some wide 9.75" 8 lug 16.5" wheels (fronts and rears) and 12-16.5" HIGHWAY tires, another wish has come thru. Great for use with the AMT Ford F 350 Super Camper Special kits and of course the Moebius '67-'72 series. Thanks Fireball!
  20. leafsprings2
    Thanks for all the positive comments! Forgot to mention the saddle fuel tanks were AITM. The inspiration photos.
  21. leafsprings2
    Or the even beefier 6500 series with larger front bumper! (same front bumper used on Crackerbox's)
  22. leafsprings2
    '64-'66 GMC 6000 series.
  23. leafsprings2
    Beautiful build, you captured the look and feel perfectly. Not easy to do this conversion, you have my respect, I've been begging for a resin mid 60's freightliner cab for years for us lower skilled builders. What did you use for the fender lip?
  24. leafsprings2
    Finally finished this vintage tanker project, used the Frontier resin Ford cab and Keystone resin single axle tanker. Both resin pieces required some putty work and reworking. Engine is a C series 534, trans is a KW 5 speed, frame used was shortened GMC Astro.
  25. leafsprings2
    This topic came up a while back, IMO, the Mack R685 engine appears to have the right dimensions of a big 6 gas job.
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