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Waiting to see wht it looks like. I've debated on buying one, but i've never seen any of the lindberg kits that went together without a fight!

Nice trucks. the 1:1 is clean!

Another great looking truck as usual! I always have a sigh of relief followed by a moment of sadness when I put one on the shelf for the last time....

This is a town of about 10,000, same people have owned the main funeral home as long as I can remember, passed down through the generations. We've had 2 others that didn't "survive", i hear were about to get a new one. Most every thing in this town was always owned by a couple of families, but that's slowly changing.

I like this, keep it going! Looks like u need to put it on a lowboy, that flatbed is about to fold up!

You can go back a couple of pages in the "big rig under glass" section bottom of page 2 (A few more trailers) page 5 (53' lowboy) and see several of mine. As is Bill, i'm a 100 miles from the nearest hobby shop, so I build from what I can find, Walmart carries a for sale sign(when u can find it) that is 12"x18".040 styrene. The last 4 I bought were $2.50 each! I order most of my angle,tubing, etc. online.

Nice work David! I have always drooled over the "jersey style" truck lettering, just never was much of a call for it in this area. I got my hand painting start helping part time after school in the local coca cola sign shop doing single stroke 12" tall black helvetica letters on courtesy signs for coke customers, lost 3 photo albums of hand painted stuff in '93 (like losing 20 yrs of your life) never found them. Again, thanks to all who have commented, its been fun to read!

Sorry to hear it Ray, I lost mine 3 yrs ago in pretty much the same manner. Saying prayers for ur family...

Gosh Harry, I hate to here this! Hopefully they caught it in time.Now that u know, never give up buddy, let the doctors handle it. prayers go out to you.

Good luck to u Rob! My older brother lives Post Falls, just east of Spokan, he loves it.

True, but as far as licensing goes, look what companys are doing in 1/43 and 1/64 scale. I'd like to see a freightliner m2, so many versions available for converting it, although with new tooling time and all, i'll probably never see any of it! Not expecting anything other than reissues

Good looking ride clayton! I had a truck on a dedicated wood chip haul, about a 100 mi. round trip. Company I was leased to wanted us to haul chips from monticello to bogaloosa la. one yr. It was an 11 hr. round trip, 2 lane road, had to cross 4 permanent scales, lumber yard foreman said we could make 2 loads a day! ! stayed local and did my regular 5 load a day thing!

Thanks for replying guys. Some really cool jobs, past and present. It may sound stupid, but I really miss getting up and going to work everyday! Started out as a fork lift operater for 5 yrs, coin operated video game and pinball tech for 3 yrs., then bought a big truck and went trucking for 15 yrs., then bought a collision repair biz & worked it for another 15 or so yrs. (40%auto, about 60% heavy truck repair). After my first heart surgery, I went to work for an Entergy contracted tree service for a couple of years doing bucket truck inspections on about 20 pcs of equip. I loved it, worked 4 nights a wk, traveling about 250 mi. a night. I would go a month without seeing my boss, faxed paperwork in on thurs. get a ck on Sat.! Worked hurrican Humberto in 2007 transporting supplies to our crews on the gulf coast. I've had a small sign business since about 76, loved the hand painted and airbrush stuff, but kinda lost interest when vinyl came along. I've had 2 more heart surgeries (stayed in a coma for about a mo. with the second one) neck surg., p/m-defibulator installed and was supposed to have been gone by 2012! Now i'm nursemaid to my wife who's had alot of problems lately.

It's what happens when u hit the submit button 3 times, Harry took care of it!! sorry

Nick, I was kidding about the buzzards. I stay so busy with things around the house, I wonder how I managed to have a have a paying job. And the wife-shopping thing, I got fired from that job a long time ago!

I have wondered about this for a while. I see a lot of extremely talented and knowledgable people on this forum and just wondering if that's being put to use in the real world ( and I assume for some, this might be the real world). I've been disabled for about 10 yrs now, but still do a little body and paint work, and a small amount of sign work from time to time, other than that pretty much just sit around and watch the buzzards hover over me! I know a few who probably can't go into detail, but i'm just wondering... and their seems to be a few with fulltime jobs, but seem to be here 24/7. And Harry, this may be in the wrong place, if so will you move it..

Still have an old flip phone.Since i've been retired (disabled) 10 years it doesnt ring much anymore, but I dont mind that one bit! As for 88 times a day, I told a Walmart exec the other day they needed to consider traffic cops inside the store, people on phones pushing buggies, I hate to even go in the store anymore! No tatoos and not enough hair to worry about having to cut!

I built shelves in my body shop office and kept my truck collection on them. I did alot of truck repair so it was the perfect place to show them off. Seemed to have a calming effect on my customers too. They could look at something besides the estimate I just handed them!! They made for good conversation and in a way let new customers see that I took pride in my work! Still have a few out at different business in town,( tire, auto parts, equiptment supply store.

What I use is aluminum rod in 3/16 and 1/4 (measures out at .22 and .26) available at some hardware stores. Paint inside the end of the tips flat black or you can grind a little bit out of the tips if your careful.

Now you've got it! Also key word CUSTOM TRUCKS. Alot of them with the big stacks are show trucks that u don't have to listen to roar all day, hence the phrase "limited bobtail", "limited working truck"

I'm sorry, thought I was helping, guess not! And the pen is not used for an elbow, just a reducer between the stack and the elbow., and u still cannot just slide a 8-10" pipe over a 5" and call it done, half of the exhaust (and smoke) will come out of the bottom!

I started going to the drag races aruond 10 yrs old or mid 60's. All the local tracks by then were starting to running M/P classes. Anything that wouldn't pass tech to run s/s got put into modified production. There were some wild cars, slow by today's standards, but alot of fun to watch back then!

Good sight. Gassers have always been cool, but I never here any mention of the old MODIFIED PRODUCTION class. Stock w/b, stock sheetmetal, carbs, 4-speeds, and 10,000 rpm lauches! Kind of a middle ground between superstocks and gassers. prelude to the early prostockers

Pipe reducers are as close as your desk drawer, the end of a cheap ink pen, cut off where u need it. They have to fit together tight or u have one heck of an exhaust leak! I do my stack bends on a heavy sheet metal break, gives a much more realistic bend. Still have to sand and polish these.A lot of trucks use under cab mufflers, ck out berubes.com or iowa 80.com in the exhaust section.

Could not have said it better Jim, this pretty much sums up my day as well !!