Italeri wreakers

[Madd Trucker]

Iam familier with the Challenger units and Holms and other tow units out there but wondering who builds the units Italeri puts out in thier kits the lift rams to me look very unrealistic and do these units exists Iam planing on building two one on a Ford and the other on a Scania Any info on these would be greatful

[chuckyr]

It is an actual wrecker body. Bro is a Swedish company. They haven't sold any new wrecker bodies in the US since the late 1980s but still support the ones in service and offer new models in Europe.

[Madd Trucker]

Thanks for tyhe replies I see Ihave a bit of work to do and have this from anouther forum that will help alot

http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truck_brochures/bro/bro-wreckers-1984/

[93Z34]

If you go to the Miller Industries website, you can download the drawings for the wrecker bodies they produce. They have drawings for Challenger, Century, Vulcan, and a few others on their site as they currently own those companies. Those drawings will give you a good idea on how to fabricate a more modern style of wrecker body if you so choose. The company I used to tow for had 4 trucks with the same wrecker body as what comes in the Italeri kits so I will be able to build the trucks we had with little modification. I got lucky with that.

[studioman3]

Brian, that's a cool site, lot of pics there, thanks for the link.

Tim