1948 Divco

[crazyjim]

This is a Testors kit made by Jimmy Flintstone and is a curbside build.  The main body is HOK cherry pearl with the insets done in wild cherry kandy.  Wheels/tires are from a Jeep kit.

[thatz4u]

Jim, nice suprise, great color & wheel combo, I like it

[Crazy Ed]

     Good'n there Jim. I worked at a Dairy for a year and they had a fleet of them for the Home Delivery Routes and I can assure you NONE of them looked like that! Again, Well Done.

[Atmobil]

Nice one

[disabled modeler]

Looks very nice Jim...cool ride...... I have an old plastic promo bank thinking of turning it into a model maybe use a 50 Ford pickup for the chrome,etc.

[crazyjim]

Thanks you Al, Ed, Gaute & Mark.  I remember Divco's delivering glass bottles of milk as a kid.  And if I remember correctly, the driver would drive standing up.

I was hoping to build a full kit with interior & engine but that didn't work out.  The body must be 3/8" thick and weigh 7 or 8 pounds.  That would have been lots and lots of resin grinding.

[Crazy Ed]

   Yep Jim, the Drivers had a tall seat that looked like they were standing - Made getting out repeatedly easier. When I was a kid we were towards the end of the Milk Route and in the Summers we'd get crushed Ice from the Milk Men. By the late 60's they had changed to the "Ice Bars" that were in the Trucks when I worked at the Dairy. Too bad about not being able to build a more detailed Truck. I wonder if you couldn't have the Body Vacuum formed a few times to create a whole wrinkle free body from the good parts and go from there?

[crazyjim]

I don't know how or have the equipment to vacuum form, Ed. 

[slusher]

Looks great Jim..

[crazyjim]

Thanks Carl.

[cobraman]

Looks good Jim. I had one of those and that was one heavy body. I do miss seeing one of your cool interiors however.

[crazyjim]

Thanks Ray.  Maybe you'll like the '71 Duster interior that's coming up soon.

[vintagercr]

Very nice!

 

[crazyjim]

Thank you Stephen.

[oldcarfan]

I love it! Wonder how much work it would be to make a stock version?

[Tom Geiger]

Nice transformation of a brick!   

I have the earlier Ron Cash version,  I'm not sure the origin of his and if the Jimmy Flintstone version sames the same heritage.   Once I saw the Danbury Mint Bordens Divco, I knew in my heart that I'd never be able to create anything that nice, so I simply bought it.   I still have the Ron Cash piece,  at one point I thought about turning it into a funny car called Boxy Lady.

[crazyjim]

Thank you Gary & Tom. 

Since I haven't seen a Divco in many, many years, Gary, I have no idea what stock would look like.  What's non-stock about my build?

[mike 51]

mostly the very chopped top...they sat higher...had no "chrome trim" on the sides...and they used heavier truck wheels.

[crazyjim]

I just put some BMF on there to break up the color and wanted it lower.  Didn't know it was chopped.  So I guess it isn't stock after all.  Thanks for the info.

[mike 51]

Google/or any search for Divco Milk trucks....tons of pictures of stock n  modified ones.

 

 

Edited September 4, 2015 by mike 51

[Guest]

Very cool, and very nice work.

[crazyjim]

Thanks Lee.

[Petetrucker07]

I've meaning to get one of these. It's too bad the body is so thick, I kinda had a plan, now I gotta rethink it some. This looks great. Paint looks awesome. I would really like get one of these in real life to hotrod. It would look something like this. Well done Jim!

[crazyjim]

Thank you Clayton.

[DumpyDan]

Very cool. looks good