A Small Mystery, A Silverado Step Side?

[oldcarfan]

So, I was poking around the attic of my shop last night and found a crushed box in the corner with this in it. I honestly have no memory of building it. I went through Chevy truck phase around 2000 so that seems likely. I also don't remember AMT offering a kit like this back in the day. Maybe it's a combination of more than one kit? The bed is slotted in the cab and everything looks stock. The paint looks like Boyd's Teal and a gloss tan color. I was going to try to save it but the paint is chipped in a few places and I may try to trade it or something. I think AMT made a step side bed kit , but I only know of a short cab version. Could this be a combination of two kits?

[stavanzer]

I don't know about the Kit, but my next door neighbor has exactly that truck.

Teal, Stepside Bed, Extra cab.

His has Cragar's on it.

[Can-Con]

Combo for sure and a popular kit bash back then. 

Easy to do if you have all the kits. 

'88-'90 longbox for the chassis. Also gives the poseable steering engine and underhood detail parts.  

Extended cab snap fast plus for the cab and interior.

and the stepside for the bed.

Everything was designed to interchange and fits perfectly. The hood is even separate and the engine bay molding is pretty well the same as the glue kits so all the parts from both the regular or SS454 kits fit .

BTW, you could just shorten the snap chassis but it has the engine underside molded into it same as the promo chassis. 

Edited February 18 by Can-Con

[slusher]

Didn’ revell do one with a jet ski behind the truck?

[Ace-Garageguy]

Hmmmmm...I've never seen a real one, orten wondered about doing it to my full-size '92, and now I know that it was factory-possible, next stop the junkyard.

And of course, the last local junkyard that was full of OBS trucks was recently bulldozed, scraped, and replaced with apartments.

[Mattilacken]

3 hours ago, slusher said:

Didn’ revell do one with a jet ski behind the truck?

wasn’t that the later Silverado? But not stepside though.. probably a bunch of these kits I never heard about.

[Tabbysdaddy]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Hmmmmm...I've never seen a real one, orten wondered about doing it to my full-size '92, and now I know that it was factory-possible, next stop the junkyard.

And of course, the last local junkyard that was full of OBS trucks was recently bulldozed, scraped, and replaced with apartments.

Now you've seen a real one.

I work in this neighborhood on occasion and I've seen this sitting in the same spot for years, always wanted to ask about it to buy it. Now that I'm working on the house next door to it they finally did something with it. They had a locksmith make keys for it, they fixed the flat tires and they put a tag on it.

[Can-Con]

4 hours ago, slusher said:

Didn’ revell do one with a jet ski behind the truck?

No, that was the next body style.

[Exotics_Builder]

AMT did this in a kit

I guess you could adapt the extended cab to this with some chassis mods.  I don't recollect them doing a Promo of one either

[Can-Con]

55 minutes ago, Exotics_Builder said:

AMT did this in a kit

I guess you could adapt the extended cab to this with some chassis mods.  I don't recollect them doing a Promo of one either

All you need from that is the box, Gerry. Just get the chassis from the longbox '88-/90 kit and cab parts from the extended cab kit and it all fits together like it was made for it ,, which I suspect it was.

No need to fool around with the short chassis if you can get a longbox chassis plate.

Edited February 18 by Can-Con

[DJMar]

AFAIK, AMT never produced an OBS Chevy extended cab shortbed, be it fleetside or stepside, kit or promo. It always surprised me, given that all the parts were there. That doesn't mean you can't build your own.

I'm currently working on something similar starting with a promo of a K1500 extended cab long bed. The cab is paired with the standard short bed from the recent R2 release of the C1500. For this project, I only needed to shorten the chassis to mate the cab & bed, because I'm working with the promo chassis plate. It's going to be a curbside.

While this works easily enough for the short fleetside bed, the stepside bed has mounting posts that don't line up with the mounting slots on the back of any of their extended cab trucks (which were only fleetsides IIRC) You can see the difference below. The cab for the fleetside bed is on the left, the stepside on the right.

Here's a shot of the difference in the bed tabs. Again, fleetside on the left, stepside on the right.

It would be simple enough to cut new mounting slots for the stepside bed in the back of the fleetside cab and fill the original holes. I'm guessing that's what was done with the original model posted. You could also cut/paste the lower cab panel out between the two cabs, but that seems like a lot of extra work.

Some further investigation is in order, perhaps.

PS- Revell did kit the extended cab/shortbed Silverado, but that was the '99-up GMT800 style, not the earlier GMT400 trucks.

[DJMar]

A few more thoughts (after I hit the post button). Apologies.

If you look closely at the pic, you'll see what appears to be the fleetside mounting slot, low on the rear of the cab, circled in red. This wouldn't be visible on the cab meant for the stepside bed. So I'm guessing this is a kitbash. Does it have a promo chassis plate? It has probably been shortened.

Also, AMT gave us the Chevy extended cab in a few select kits, the recently re-released C3500 kit being one of them. That kit (and the 3500 promos) have no cab side trim. The side trim was only available in the early Snap-Fast Plus release of the extended cab longbed, and the associated promos. So I'm also guessing that this model was based on either the snap kit or a promo, as there was no full detail, glue kit of the extended cab C/K 1500 to my recollection. Again, we're talking about the 1990s AMT GMT400 platform kits, not the Revell Silverado.

Edited February 18 by DJMar

[oldcarfan]

I flipped it over for a couple of pictures and it seems you were right. It's a promo style chassis with the screws in the front. The back is a little loose so I must have glued it onto the chassis.

In case anyone wants to know what the original AMT grill looked like, this is it. It doesn't look bad with some paint detailing.

Edited February 18 by oldcarfan
Forgot some stuff

[DJMar]

Oh yeah, that's the promo chassis. You can see where it's cut at the rear to fit. I'd guess this started out as the Snap Fast Plus kit since the wheels & tires are the same.

Aside from geeking out on the different configurations of this AMT classic, I think yours is a really cool kitbash. Honestly, I've not seen it built this way before. Is it a candidate for a clean up and restore?

 

[Exotics_Builder]

6 hours ago, Can-Con said:

All you need from that is the box, Gerry. Just get the chassis from the longbox '88-/90 kit and cab parts from the extended cab kit and it all fits together like it was made for it ,, which I suspect it was.

No need to fool around with the short chassis if you can get a longbox chassis plate.

I figured it might be the case.  But I didn't want to pull out the kits and check it out in detail.  

[oldcarfan]

1 hour ago, DJMar said:

Oh yeah, that's the promo chassis. You can see where it's cut at the rear to fit. I'd guess this started out as the Snap Fast Plus kit since the wheels & tires are the same.

Aside from geeking out on the different configurations of this AMT classic, I think yours is a really cool kitbash. Honestly, I've not seen it built this way before. Is it a candidate for a clean up and restore?

 

I'm planning to give it a bath tomorrow to see how it looks. I can see some small paint chips, but they may not be too bad. I don't really have a use for it so I may offer it up if there's interest.

[oldcarfan]

I found the cab for probably the original stepside kit. Notice the alignment holes are different than the ones in the standard kit. The more I think about, the more I remember buying several Silverado kits in a clearance sale at a Toys R Us or KayBee Toys. So that's probably where they came from.

[obs.caleb]

It Would Be Cool To See You Rebuild It. Maybe You Could Do A Custom Job.

[Mark]

The extended cab was never used in a full detail kit, only in promos.  The stepside bed was used in full detail and promo versions.  Ertl did not tool the promo-only variations like the extended cab, so that's part of the story behind the slight mismatch between cabs and beds.  The fact that Ertl subcontracted some of the promos means that they didn't have the tooling for them when production ended.  That's why Round 2 had to recreate the stock versions of the OBS trucks that they have issued so far.  If they decide to do any more variations, those would be new also and would probably interchange with the items they have already done.

[Tabbysdaddy]

Round 2 has most of the regular cab long bed tooling in the form of the USA-1 monster truck. There was some alterations to it to make the monster truck.