Is there a resin version of this available?

[impcon]

I wouldlike to purchase a 1956 Fird Big Job resin cab like the one pictured below.. my dad had one of these that was a single axle gravel truck that had lived it's entire life as a sand truck at the Winnipeg, Manitoba International Airport. He bought it off of a car lot in 1972 and the thing was cherry! It ran and drove like a brand new truck due to the fact that it had hardly any miles on it. I should specify that it was a SAND truck - not a salt truck so despite mostly being used only during the winter months, the truck was totally, absolutely rust free and clean. Unlike the truck pictured below, ours had no running boards - the fuel tanks were made of checker plate and the steps were built into the tanks which ran across the frame under the seat area of the cab. It had a big V8 and a functional hood scoop and man, that thing was fast!!!!!!!

My best buddy and I took it out for a burn one Sunday afternoon on the country road where we lived back then and "performance tested" it.. more of a Timex torture test than anything. It had no insurance or license plates on it and we were bootin' it down the road heading towards home when a police car came out of nowhere. My buddy was driving and trying to figure the two speed axle thing out and I looked in the mirror and there was a police car! We were close to home but not close enough to make a run for it so I told my buddy to swing into our neighbor's driveway and get off the road. Well, he hit the brakes and we come sliding into the driveway and there is something like a family reunion or something going on! Picture if you can a sunny, summer Sunday afternoon and here are all these people just chillin' out and having a cool beer or what ever when this big green dump truck comes roaring into the driveway and slides to a halt in the gravel, followed by a police car with the light bar all lit up! Needless to say, the festivities ground to an immediate halt as we were suddenly the focus of everyones' attention and the star attraction. I was terrified and my buddy being Mr. Cool, gets down out of the cab to face the mountie. I got out of the passenger's side and walked around the front of the truck to face the music and I swear that I almost had a laundry problem. There was the mountie, ashen faced and furious at the same time, scolding Phillip for not having any brake or signal lights and he was ranting at Phillip because he said that he almost rear ended us when Phil suddenly hit the brakes to turn into the driveway. Phil, being the quick witted wise guy that he was made some comment about the lights had been working earlier in the day "'cause he had checked them personally"! Yeah. Right. The mountie was still ranting as he followed my friend to the back of the truck where Phil crouched down and stepped under the back of the box and finding a stray, loose wire, he grabbed it and presented the end of it to the mountie. With a triumphant grin on his face and more nerve than a toothache, he held the broken wire in one hand and pointed to it with the other and stated with all certainty that he had found the problem and he would have it fixed in a jiffy!. I was standing there unable to believe what was going on and waiting for that age old "Can I see your driver's license, registration and insurance please" - but it never came. The mountie rambled on and on, mumbling something about Phil fixing those stupid lights before he killed somebody, and then suddenly he turned around and stomped back to his car, got into it. slamming the door, backed out of the driveway and roared off. Our audiance seemed like they had been frozen in time - no one had moved or spoken the whole time this scenario was playing out before their disbelieving eyes just a few feet from where they were sitting. Everyone was still watching with wide eyes - not a word being said as we climbed back into the Ford. I remeber Phil starting the truck, grinning at our fan club and giving them a "peace" sign and then grinding the truck into reverse, he quickly backed out of the driveway and took off down the road just as hard as that thing would go. My dad never did find out about that escapade.. thank goodness. If he had, I would have been dog food.. if I was lucky.

So, if I can find a cab, I'll start looking for the parts to put the project together. Actually, to build a tandem like the one below would be sort of neat too. But I want another big, green dump truck! Any ideas anyone?

Edited July 18, 2010 by impcon

[george 53]

Gare, it LOOKS like you could repro the cab by just widening the fenders. But I don't know the little intracasies of trucks. Maybe you could use the chassis from the old AMT flip cab work/delivery truck, or the U.S.Postal System tractor an trailer.

[mountaindewd]

Someone has been working on this in resin, but I can't remember who. Let me do some digging to see if I can come up with it.

Edited July 18, 2010 by mountaindewd

[cargostar]

Dencon is doing a '50. Hes who I was thinging of.

http://www.denconresin.com/classictruck.html

[mountaindewd]

Dencon is doing a '50. Hes who I was thinging of.

http://www.denconresin.com/classictruck.html

Yep, just found it....a little late.