Chevrolet Road Tractor

[DRIPTROIT 71]

This is the cab from Too Many Projects, the 427 engine is from the Baldwin Motion Camaro. It isn’t a tall deck, but it wouldn’t be noticeable in scale. I don’t think that I am going to open the hood anyway. The Road Boss will be donating the chassis.

Here is the inspiration picture. It was on Facebook.

 

[Pete68]

35 minutes ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

This is the cab from Too Many Projects, the 427 engine is from the Baldwin Motion Camaro. It isn’t a tall deck, but it wouldn’t be noticeable in scale. I don’t think that I am going to open the hood anyway. The Road Boss will be donating the chassis.

Here is the inspiration picture. It was on Facebook.

 

Nice Brian seated front row. My Dad had a brand new one like this one in 1968. Are you going to put a 5&4 behind that 427??

Edited November 22, 2024 by Pete68

[Biggu]

Sweet ….. I learned how to double clutch and split shift on one of these, a sweet little truck, absolutely love these trucks …

[DRIPTROIT 71]

1 hour ago, Pete68 said:

Nice Brian seated front row. My Dad had a brand new one like this one in 1968. Are you going to put a 5&4 behind that 427??

Thanks Lee! I wanted to portray the 5&4. However it is going to be curbside and I wasn’t sure how picky that I wanted to be. I’m guessing that the 5&4 set up out of the W900 KW from AMT wouldn’t be accurate or would it? I had almost resigned myself to the bland generic transmission out of one of the snap kits.

[Gary Chastain]

Did not know this cab was being produced anywhere. Cool project, will be following along. 

[Warren D]

Interesting build, it almost looks like it's got Brockway style fuel tanks.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Thanks Warren. I’m not building an exact replica of the picture, so I’m not sure what tanks I will use yet. It will probably come down to what I can find in my parts box.😀

[Rockford]

A very novel project. Glad i don't have to fuel it! 

[Old Buckaroo]

This will be a very fun project to watch. I'll see if I can find that box of resin parts this weekend - I still may have some of those tanks. Too bad Terry doesn't post here anymore , he casted a lot of those tanks.

What is the engine in the background for ???

[DRIPTROIT 71]

1 hour ago, Old Buckaroo said:

This will be a very fun project to watch. I'll see if I can find that box of resin parts this weekend - I still may have some of those tanks. Too bad Terry doesn't post here anymore , he casted a lot of those tanks.

What is the engine in the background for ???

Thanks Sean! The engine in the background is the first big block that I dug out. 

[vincen47]

This will be a fun one to watch. A unique project. Not sure if I’ve seen one of these in model form.

[Pete68]

19 hours ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

Thanks Lee! I wanted to portray the 5&4. However it is going to be curbside and I wasn’t sure how picky that I wanted to be. I’m guessing that the 5&4 set up out of the W900 KW from AMT wouldn’t be accurate or would it? I had almost resigned myself to the bland generic transmission out of one of the snap kits.

Yes you could put the KW one in there or if your just going curb side it  I would just put 2 sticks in there. Just make sure one is behind the other. The Auxiliary shifter goes in between the two seats. You can use the seats out of the Chevy Blazer or the GMC Jimmy or the Astro to get pretty correct. Hope this helps 

[BK9300]

Not familiar with this type of truck, but looking forward to how you put it together.

[Pete68]

19 hours ago, Rockford said:

Glad i don't have to fuel it! 

Me too! Those 427s with a 4 barrel Holly sucked the Gas. I could imagine pulling that Reefer what it did. I bet after pulling a long hill those manifolds were Cherry Red when he got to the top. 😂 

[Biggu]

47 minutes ago, Pete68 said:

Me too! Those 427s with a 4 barrel Holly sucked the Gas. I could imagine pulling that Reefer what it did. I bet after pulling a long hill those manifolds were Cherry Red when he got to the top. 😂 

The 427 and the 409, sucked fuel like flushing a toilet under heavy pulls, and always seemed to have an exhaust leak somewhere and I can still hear the ticking sound....

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Thanks for all of the comments guys!

Starting to mock up this one.

[Jürgen M.]

Looks nice! Very special build!

Is that the sleeper of the AMT White Western Star? Or is that in other kits too?

[Rockford]

What a brute of a truck! Great stuff.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

7 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

Looks nice! Very special build!

Is that the sleeper of the AMT White Western Star? Or is that in other kits too?

Thanks! The sleeper is the Mercury Sleeper that comes in the AMT Road Boss, Western Star, and Diamond Reo.

[Jürgen M.]

Thought so! Looked familiar!

I still have that one in my parts box! The cabs are also the same in the White Western Star, Autocar A64B and Road Boss! Probably in a few other kits too!

I built the Brockway (Convoy) from the AMT Autocar Kit and the Diamond T (also Convoy) from the AMT Coca Cola Western Star kit. Absolutely same cab!

 

[Pete68]

5 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

Absolutely same cab!

The cab is made by the Corporation cab company they made many cabs for various truck manufacturers. I found this out when I restored my real Autocar Truck about 30 years ago. 

Edited November 26, 2024 by Pete68

[Jürgen M.]

Thanks for the information! Always interesting to learn these things! 

 

[DRIPTROIT 71]

A little more mock up. 

[Jürgen M.]

Nice build! Does that truck belong to the class 8 category? Just asking cause of the 40' reefer! Looks so huge compared to the tractor!

[Gary Chastain]

This truck looks the business