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This one sat unfinished, collecting dust on my shelf for a year, until the recent blur of activity over the last few days! Maybe that White-Freightliner buildup put the wind back in my sails!

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It's the old Ertl- AMT/Ertl Paystar 5000 dumper kit, made into a crew cab by grafting on a second Paystar cab, and slapping on the leftover Ford Dually bed from my '26 Mack's chassis donor.

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Around back I added a scratcbuilt bumper and a foil copied International nameplate. The stacks are polished K&S tubing.

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The hood opens to reveal the engine from a Transtar kit, plated air cleaner assembly and all, and the bed also tilts, though there isn't much to see at the moment. Eventually I intend to add batteries, air tanks, hidden fuel filler caps, etc., beneath the tilt bed, but that can wait until I decide how I want to lay everything out.

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Chuck,

WOW! Thats one Hot rod, Looks like a beefed up International Hummer, I'm not big into the RADn things out, but this one is sweet for sure.

You're gonna need some grab handles, that first step is a dusie! :lol:

You can simulate a hydraulic lift with aluminum tubing as I did on this lowboy, just a thought.

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Chuck,

WOW! Thats one Hot rod, Looks like a beefed up International Hummer, I'm not big into the RADn things out, but this one is sweet for sure.

You're gonna need some grab handles, that first step is a dusie! :lol:

You can simulate a hydraulic lift with aluminum tubing as I did on this lowboy, just a thought.

Yeah! Thanks Tim- I'm toying with the idea of hydraulic rams for the bed- that's kind of why there's nothing but driveshaft under the bed right now. So much crazy junk I could cram under there... so little space! (Ironic, on a rig this huge...)

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