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That's what I like about WS and why I owned 3 of them is the room. Seems like all trucks Pete and KW included are getting cheaper built seems to be a trend in general with everything these days.

Sure would.

Truckabilly I guarantee that show is about 50 % drama and 50 % real I have friends who run up there as well as 25 years doing specialized trucking myself. While entertaining it is Hollywoodized as are many of those type of shows.

Neat!

Lookin good but is going to need a little more wheelbase. Thanks Dave keep em coming.

Another interesting WS.

C an we say machine shop?

Yeah imagine a truck so dirty you get mice.

How about this WS as a project? The 6900xd

Both bumpers look good The gullwing bumper was introduced 73 or 74 with the VIT package. The AMT kit is a 71 or 72 so eithe bumper is possible.

FFabulous

WS trucks are so varied there are many good projects to build. As far as were they are built everbody is right my two 04s were built in Portland my 2000 was built in Kelowna BC. Some production was moved to Freightliners South Carolina plant and sadly some has moved to Freightliners Mexico facility. WS started in 1967 as western version of White to become a high quality Canadian product and ended up part of the Daimler empire. Still they are a good truck able to withstand Aussie conditions. As a side note the Heritage cabs were made in Orrville Oh. that little town so famous for truck cabs.

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I check with Sourkrauts ha ha

I have seen some of the Auslowe conversions done up they look nice. Even seen one done as a Low Max.

Yes it does, seems to have been the style at the time aero hood on a traditional truck.

WS also built an aero version of the Heritage series.

Here is an Aussie WS Seems to be the same as a North American 4900fa other than right hand steering,tall air cleaners and usual Aussie equipment. Aussies seem to prefer large round headlights to small square ones. Apparently they work better in Aussie conditions. would be easy to make resin hoods American.

Nice pic chuckyr That would be a 108" bbc version. Would be a neat project to do with the Italeri kit shorter hood and flat top bunk.

Tim is correct the hood on the Italerie kit the 5900 series was a short lived aero style that didn't sell well. It seems us Western Star buyers tend to be a more traditional bunch. Maybe you can post some pics of your build later.

Heritage left and Constellation right Western Stars

I believe your original post was moved to the truck stop section of the forum but here is a pic of the kit Tower has it was just re released. The constellation series was introduced in 1996 to replace the aging heritage series which was continued til about 2001. The constellation is built with short ,long and sloped hoods set back and forward axles. All current WS trucks are in the constellation series except the recently released 4700 series vocational trucks.

A neat subject for a model also would be a neat resto project.

Since we seem to have covered plenty of classic light trucks how about some classic heavies. All Mack B models,MackLT. bullnose Kenworth,needlenose Kenworth and Peterbilts, Sterling J series and Peterbilt 359s.

Nice!