Chuck Most

George Barris claimed other people's work as his own, and he's a "sleazeball". Steve Jobs did the same thing and he's some kind of hero. Yeah, makes perfect sense....

x3 on Toreador Red.

It's cool- looks like there's been a wave of thread necromancy going on lately. Maybe it's because Halloween is in the air.

Know what? I don't even care about how old a thread is anymore. But since you asked, OP, I will tell you, despite the fact you haven't logged on in almost two years.... Reliant Robin.

I'm buying a couple, just because I know it will annoy the clenched-sphincter "serious adult scale model hobbyist" types. I'll save the scaled line-drawings, digital calipers, and rivet counting apparatus for a more involved project.

I'm seeing the beginning of a really nice W900 day cab, and a nice little wrecker body that would look great on the back of a Diamond Reo. But that's just me.

It is a 4x4- take a look at the front hubs.

Also hit the junkyard today...

Local FD had some of their stuff out today.

I guess dredging up eight-year-old threads is the cool thing to do these days.

If dogs are man's best friend, and diamonds are a woman's best friend, then David Bowie is everyone's best friend.

You do realize the post you quoted was from 2008, right?

Yes, but keep in mind that's a Dodge engine, and this is a DeSoto. The three Mopar first-gen Hemi engines were all sized differently. Many parts would not interchange between the three first-gen Hemi engines.

I'll cut right to the chase- that's a full-blown masterpiece.

Wow.... I'm beginning to think I should just have you build my Autocar dumper for me. I love how you did the butterfly hinge- I had an idea of trying something similar to hinge the doors on the "Big 4" cabs. Good to see the idea is workable. The thought of using a photoetched piano hinge makes my head throb. Your solution not only looks like it's easier to deal with, but looks quite a bit more realistic on the model as well.

All I'm going to say is snap these up before they're gone, like the recent run of the 510 BRE. I'm still kicking myself for only buying one of those.

I have an incomplete Aeromax 120... but again, I'm going to make my own Ford chassis for it. I'll save the chassis for something a lot more Freightliner-y. I believe the KFS instructions show how to modify the 'Shaker chassis to work with the CL cab, though.

Send me the the Mustang II front suspension. You could always built it as a stripped old junker and load it up on a flat bed, though I suppose that might leave you with only slightly fewer components you'd have no use for.

A II? And here I were thinking you were some Luddite with an original Selectric. Please don't tell me yours is the Correcting Selectric II...

Oh, it hit the wallet plenty hard enough. But if you want it badly enough you pay, right? I think I might do my own frame with some C-section strip and spare Louisville crossmembers. Might be a while before I get around to this one, so I've got plenty of time to map things out.

Walking on sunshine...

Just to clarify, Tim built these, not me. And the concrete company was Andersen, not Anderson like I spelled it in the post...

I'll order this one no trunion, then. (Ba-dum-tsssssssssss)

Well, I can finally scratch this one off the list...

Forgot this one. It's not a model, it's Tim's 1:1 '70 Diamond REO SBFA. And yes, he is planning on building a model of it.