Modelhaus '64 Dodge D100 'Custom Sports Special' body; extinct?

[Wickersham Humble]

Reprising an old question:  I suppose the Modelhaus '64 Dodge D100 'Custom Sports Special' body is extinct!?  Or, at a price beyond rubies?

I would like to build a replica of the USFS Class IV tanker that I was crew foreman on the last summer I fought forest fires, 1968.  It was actually a '62, tired 318-A that broke a few times (cracked manfolds) 3/4 Ton 4x4, with POWER WAGON on both sides of the hood.  Tall, skinny 16x7-inch steel rims, two Utility boxes on the bed, a fifty-gallon rectangular water tank, putt-putt motor and pump, with 100-ft. live-reel to drizzle it out, all too fast!  Big Motorola radio in bed, with whip on the roof, green with gray.  There was room in the bed for fencing equipment, and when not on fires, we built miles of bob-war fence!  And, killed rattlesnakes!  

I was a Red Card 'Crew Boss' (still have the card!) and it was my fifth fire-season, my second as foreman on the Modoc Nat'l Forest, in N CA.  The previous season, I had a '64 Dodge 1-1/2 Tonner, Class III with 300-gallon tank, a slip-on unit, and seats on the bed for three crewmen, plus myself and two more in the cab.  I refused to shave off my mustache in '67 (peace, love, what's your sign?) and losing the bigger truck was my 'reward!!'  Some adventures for a college kid! Then, the Army.

I'd like to commemorate so many of the great guys I worked with... if I can get a kit, a donor, and some fire equipment.   Wick

[Matt T.]

IIRC, board user @zaina can 3D print you what you need. It’s not as cheap as a kit, but it’s not rubies either. I bought a’69 D100 cab off of him last summer for a ramp truck build. I know he offers the previous D100 gen. too (1962). HTH

[dwc43]

15 hours ago, Wickersham Humble said:

Reprising an old question:  I suppose the Modelhaus '64 Dodge D100 'Custom Sports Special' body is extinct!?  Or, at a price beyond rubies?

I would like to build a replica of the USFS Class IV tanker that I was crew foreman on the last summer I fought forest fires, 1968.  It was actually a '62, tired 318-A that broke a few times (cracked manfolds) 3/4 Ton 4x4, with POWER WAGON on both sides of the hood.  Tall, skinny 16x7-inch steel rims, two Utility boxes on the bed, a fifty-gallon rectangular water tank, putt-putt motor and pump, with 100-ft. live-reel to drizzle it out, all too fast!  Big Motorola radio in bed, with whip on the roof, green with gray.  There was room in the bed for fencing equipment, and when not on fires, we built miles of bob-war fence!  And, killed rattlesnakes!  

I was a Red Card 'Crew Boss' (still have the card!) and it was my fifth fire-season, my second as foreman on the Modoc Nat'l Forest, in N CA.  The previous season, I had a '64 Dodge 1-1/2 Tonner, Class III with 300-gallon tank, a slip-on unit, and seats on the bed for three crewmen, plus myself and two more in the cab.  I refused to shave off my mustache in '67 (peace, love, what's your sign?) and losing the bigger truck was my 'reward!!'  Some adventures for a college kid! Then, the Army.

I'd like to commemorate so many of the great guys I worked with... if I can get a kit, a donor, and some fire equipment.   Wick

I can't help you with the truck, but 3 inches under has a web site and he has a Ebay page too. He would have the sirens, lights, hose reels, nozzles, shovels, axes, rakes, pike poles, ladders, turnout gear, SCBA's, pumps and motors, medical equipment and just about anything fire, medic, or police stuff that you might want.

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[#1 model citizen]

On 1/8/2025 at 5:00 PM, Wickersham Humble said:

Reprising an old question:  I suppose the Modelhaus '64 Dodge D100 'Custom Sports Special' body is extinct!?  Or, at a price beyond rubies?

I have a Modelhaus’64 D100 Custom conversion kit. (Requires only chassis and bed to complete.) I don’t know if it’s the same as the Custom “Sports Special”. I would be willing to trade along with the Dodge lil Red Express Truck donor kit, if needed. . Don’t know what would be a fair trade but I’m looking for early JoHan, AMT and Revell MoPars thru ’65 and ‘65 Mustang coupe/convertible kit. 

[ncbuckeye67]

Three Inches Under is also on Etsy, if you want to avoid "evilbay". His stuff is good, but does require a lot of clean-up, since it's cast resin and not 3D printed.

[Wickersham Humble]

Thanks; but I'm not likely to want to fab a complete 'wide/long bed' -- gettin' too old!  The Modelhaus resin '64 Dodge D100 'Custom Sports Special' body was shown in one of Tim Boyd's articles on recapping all non-Chevy/Ford mainstream truck kits, and other than the 'Power Wagon' chrome on the hood sides, WAS the one I'd need!  I was just hoping that one existed out there, and was affordable.  I just put that mag (SA, I think) back on my 'collection shelf' with all the other model periodicals I've saved since Fred Flintstone was a Cub Scout, and when I riffled through them, couldn't find.  I'd have to make side-racks (steel pipe, very architypical for USFS rigs) and a water tank.  The live-reel hose would be perfect.

We didn't have turnout rigs, respirators, etc. in 1964; the FS provided a hard-hat, one-each well-used, and we crewmen ponied up for all the rest. Boots, gloves, a 'war-bag', bandanna and long sleeved khaki shirts were all from our first paycheck, or the plastic card bank.  Also, b-fast, lunch and dinner.  We were on-shift from eight until eight, but after five we could pitch horseshoes or play volleyball; still one-minute response time mandatory!  

Thanks, keep me in mind; Wick