I'm not senile yet!

[Rockford]

I know I've not been posting much lately, I'm a bit overwhelmed with my new house and everything's still scattered about the place. My bedtime reading nowadays is back issues of Overdrive Magazine on the Dutch Model Truck Club's Fotki page.  I've also been looking at 352 Petes as research for my current (stalled) project. 

Last night I was looking at the January 1983 issue and when I got to the Tractor of the Month page I thought the subject looked familiar. I flicked to a "for sale" page I'd saved and it does indeed look like the same machine. It's not just the paint scheme though, same 350 Cummins, 13 speed, Dayton spoked wheels painted blue, still has one high back seat, rear facing alley lights on the roof, polished visor, 44,000lb rears, rubber lip on the bottom edge of the cab, the caps on the air horns, the licence plate board below the front bumper with the round amber reflectors on. It's still in Michigan too, about 200 miles from where it lived in the Overdrive days. 

The paint job has been pinstriped, there's a hefty front towing bar fitted and the half fenders have been renewed but I reckon there's enough there to say that they're the same truck that's had another life. 

I know, I should get out more, but we dullards make the rest of you look better! 

[stitchdup]

I think they are similar but not the same truck. the sale truck has some different trim around the lower rear of the cab and at the top rear edge of the door. the truck of the month has extra pin striping on the decals and both have their plates in different locations while leaving no holes in the other location.