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I love the looks of this truck. Hows it coming?

Is Doc building a bike into a time machine this time? Better watch out for the Iranians. Great build.

Once the length laws were lifted if you talk to most truckers from that era, they hated driving cabovers for various reasons so I think they lost their place in the trucking industry unless you are overseas. Sorry late posting.

Its lookin good keep it up.

No. All info says 67. But I am sure it is the late 70s model with a poor refab of a 67.

You know maybe I will make this my next project for google sketchup.

Wow just looked at a pic of the box art. I think as a novice modeler i could make better "junkyard" parts then that. It don't even look like it has many salvageable parts. That grille guard looks like some welder was high and built it that way. lol. Oh and it is supposed to be a 67 model but don't have the kit so I can't verify.

I would say if you want a matching set of wheels for the front the AMT W925 KW wheels are a close match.

Lol, good thread, I was just thinking today we should stop hijacking the other thread. Was gonna start one. You know I love classic wheels ( pretty much anything older than 1965 whether it is a car, truck, semi, train and so on) so that is probably why I don't have a big affection for newer vehicles, but I see the design in everything and feel anything can be worked with. One complaint I had with newer trucks is the abbreviated length of the hood they seem to have. I feel that a newer truck although not impossible is harder to work with from a kustomizing standpoint. Then also on that behalf I wish I still had that T600 I designed in 8th grade that would probably cost at least a half a million to build. But that was like 1960s Barris meets the trucking industry. Everything from a corvette tooth style grill to phantom headlights (molded bars over the top) and integrated huge sleeper on a quad axle frame and frenched stacks, airhorns and running lights with full rear fender skirts. It would be a hell of a model to build if I could sketch it out again. If anyone wants to give it a shot. It also had drop belly reefer with a full architectural office and sleeping quarters in it. Its baically like Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge, domestic vs import. Its what you like but fun to hear everyone's opinions. I have come to the conclusion no vehicle is better then another it is just who owned it before you.

This should help. Nice build.

Let me rephrase what I said. The trucks are hard to Kustomize because of the design but I guess Kustomize to me goes beyond just adding off the shelf. I know truckers are proud of their trucks and should very well be. A flashy truck always snaps my head but not as fast as a classic cruiser. But Kustomizing to me is going the extra mile to make your vehicle different. Similar to Mayhem. Any truck is actually hard to Kustomize compared to cars and pickups, but newer trucks take a little more thought. I drew a remake of the "Duck" from Convoy using a 1997 Mack and that as simple as it is took a lot of thinking to just get the correct look.

I love those WW2 Brockways. Always wanted to do a resto.

###### I love bull noses. I give kuddos to those who can pull off integrating paint like that.

Lol just watched that one and forgot about that scene.

I figured as much ramma from your description.

That my friend is the oil filter. The 265 Chevy V8 that is in this car did not come from the factory with an oil filter or even a location for an oil filter and this was used to solve that. Some of those decals are a b*tch to put on the model because they are so small.

My wife is actually building this kit right now. Skill level 3. There are many many details to include a 3 piece dash. Nice build.

Wow, chopped, channeled, shaved and smooth as hell. All old school. That is a bad ass Kustom Kemp. Tunneled 59 Caddy lenses and headlights. Tuck n' roll. I would have used a flathead Caddy engine though. What engine is that? What kit?

The tremors have done it again...

The hood on the 69 can be scavenged but if kits are correct the length of the fenders are different on the 69 compared to 67 or 68

Got this in an email today... If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know where to get one? You would go to a store, right? Well, of course you could do that, but if you wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store watches, you went to the train station! Sound a bit funny? Well, for about 500 towns across the northern United States, that's where the best watches were found. Why were the best watches found at the train station? The railroad company wasn't selling the watches, not at all. The telegraph operator was. Most of the time the telegraph operator was located in the railroad station because the telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks from town to town. It was usually the shortest distance and the right-of-ways had already been secured for the rail line. Most of the station agents were also skilled telegraph operators and that was the primary way that they communicated with the railroad. They would know when trains left the previous station and when they were due at their next station. And it was the telegraph operator who had the watches. As a matter of fact they sold more of them than almost all the stores combined for a period of about 9 years. This was all arranged by "Richard", who was a telegraph operator himself. He was on duty in the North Redwood, Minnesota train station one day when a load of watches arrived from the east. It was a huge crate of pocket watches. No one ever came to claim them. So Richard sent a telegram to the manufacturer and asked them what they wanted to do with the watches. The manufacturer didn't want to pay the freight back, so they wired Richard to see if he could sell them. So Richard did. He sent a wire to every agent in the system asking them if they wanted a cheap, but good, pocket watch. He sold the entire case in less than two days and at a handsome profit. That started it all. He ordered more watches from the watch company and encouraged the telegraph operators to set up a display case in the station offering high quality watches for a cheap price to all the travelers. It worked! It didn't take long for the word to spread and, before long, people other than travelers came to the train station to buy watches. Richard became so busy that he had to hire a professional watch maker to help him with the orders. That was Alvah. And the rest, as they say, is history. The business took off and soon expanded to many other lines of dry goods. Richard and Alvah left the train station and moved their company to Chicago -- and it's still there. IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT that for a while in the1880's, the biggest watch retailer in the country was at the train station. It all started with a telegraph operator: Richard Sears and his partner Alvah Roebuck!

Just like cars as an avid car fanatic. As mackinac said they don't lend themselves well to customizing. As a Kustom designer It is hard to do anything other then wheels and body kits on a new car. You can add chrome but it looks like ass because of the design. Paint helps some. This is why you see the cute little cookie cutter cereal box cars. Let me see what I can do with the prostar on paper and I will show you how hard it is. Give me an older truck and we will do a comparison of Kustomization.

I got a few but need find them. 3000 Mitsu GTO VR4 and an R33 GTR Skyline. My two faves. And also got an AWD twin turbo V6 Beretta with a widebody kit and t tops somewhere. Those look good though. Graph paper goes a long ways when trying to get correct proportions.

Looks good. Not a big fan of British cars newer then the 40s but earlier then are sweet and love the old world architecture.

Nice model. Looks like something I would have ran across in Kosovo but not many Rovers.