Chuck Most

The doors may have been tedious to construct, but they look great! I'm using those same wheels on mine.

I have a similar one in the works, and at the risk of stating the obvious- space will be at a premium with the Ardun heads. I still haven't figured out how I'll end up routing the headers in mine.

A bit too far for me to drive, and I don't have another big wrecker to tow it home with.

Nice! I did the same thing with the wheels on the two I've built. How did you deal with the too-short mounting bosses on the wheels?

I'm sure they were having a blast with them back in December, when temps were dipping well below zero and we were getting tons of freezing rain! I did see a set of the color coded coils on a newer Freightliner today- one of the rigs owned by Legend Manufacturing, and it was the only one at the factory with them. Really never paid a great deal of attention to stuff like that until I came across this thread.

Thanks guys! Still up in the air with this one- I'm sort of toying with sticking the Rex mixer from the old Ertl Paystar on the back, but I guess we'll see.

Up in Michigan you still see the plain black lines quite frequently- in fact, it's been quite a while since I've spotted any of the color-coded ones. I do know most of the truck drivers I know hate the color coded ones, and much prefer the regular black rubber lines.

So far, I haven't bought one with the intent of leaving it as is, but I have nabbed a few old built ups for good prices, when I find them and if it's a subject I want, and one that isn't readily available in styrene or resin form.

Mike- that GMC grille is the A-Team part. It's the closest one I've seen to what Niko has on his van. It would work with modification, or you might be able to rework an MPC Chevy pickup part, that one has the quad stacked headlights.

So cool to see one of these in original condition. Can't be too many totally factory Willys coupes in existence anymore.

Did you notice the F-350 reissue has two sets of gauge panel decals? If you don't mess up decaling the F-350 dash, you should be able to use the remaining three on the Econoline.

Not without modification. The HEMI had evenly spaced exhaust ports, while the 440 had the middle two ports closer together, sort of like a small block Chevy. You could make them work with a bit of trimming and bending.

Better hurry- it's a limited edition set.

OR the just-reissued AMT '65 Ford Galaxie. The oft-reissued '66 Galaxie and Torino Cobras offer convincing NASCAR options as well. I'm not sold on seeing any new (current) NASCAR stockers in kit form any time soon, but I do think we'll be seeing more and more of the earlier stuff coming out, as new kit options and reissues.

Nothing as far as tooling is shared between this and the other AMT cabovers, aside from perhaps the tires. The Reo, Road Boss, Western Star, and Autocar conventionals do share parts, but so did all the 1:1 versions, as all of those trucks were owned and manufactured by White Motor Company at the time AMT engineered the kits.

Jeff Ballard at Motor City Resin Casters was working on one if I recall, but I'm not sure on its status other than it isn't yet listed on his website.

Agreed. That being said, the Fujimi is VERY nice for being a curbside.

You had me at 1:25 scale custom van stuff! Welcome aboard.

I like where this one's going.

Great work on this one, Dave! You never disappoint. I do like the idea of doing a second one as a logger...

Fogged paint or not, looks great to me! I miss seeing these big ol' cabovers on the highway.

Not unlike buying a 1:1 Vega. THANK YOU, GOOD NIGHT....

If the first run is already sold out- I'll take that as a good sign and assume there will be a second at some point. The only reason I haven't used a set of Moebius wheels and tires on another truck kit is because then I'd have a Moebius International with no rolling stock... this would solve that little problem.

Love this truck- and it looks great in that paint scheme.