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There has been some really nice wreckers showing up on the board this month. I have had fun watching them as I am building a wrecker too! Back in the late 90s I picked up a little window Wrecker kit (T-522) off of Ebay. I bought it cheap as it was missing the wrecker body. I painted it like the box art only it was without the wrecker body and I just made it into a tractor minus sleeper. It came out OK but then I moved and the truck had some damage. Then, I discovered resin kits and I bought a resin CFC 358 hood. I decided this would be the truck to try out my first resin hood. Shortly afterwards, I picked up a reissued wrecker kit (robbed the wrecker body) and painted the body to match my little window cab. It came out OK. Once again I moved. And again, the truck needed to be put back together but this time I built it as an old OTR tractor with a Mercury sleeper. It came out decent. Then after a few years I moved again, and the truck needed another rebuild. This time I stripped the paint off, ditched the sleeper and left it to sit on a shelf for a few years. I had really wanted to redo it like the original box art (T-522) but dreaded having to strip the paint off the frame and no longer had the decals to do it; I lost interest and just let it sit... What if...Stepps towing started out with a little window 358 Pete?!? Hmmmm............ Anyways, that's the direction I'm going with this. Jeff