Anyone for an antique truck project?

[Biscuitbuilder]

How about a 1920 Oldsmobile 1-ton truck? (yes, Oldsmobile built trucks up through the early 1920's!) This one was started (frame built) in 1987, got back on it in January of this year.

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[camaroman]

Cool buil, Art. What was your starting point or inspiration for this build?

[S10man]

Its nice to see some more progress on this Art. Is this superceding the Huomobile?

[mackinac359]

Art

Sweet! I presume everything is scratchbuilt here.

Tim

[Biscuitbuilder]

Cool buil, Art. What was your starting point or inspiration for this build?

In early 1987, a model railroading magazine, "Mainline Modeler" published a set of excellent scale drawings of a 1920 Oldsmobile 1-ton truck that the artist, the late Al Armitage spotted at the Hays Truck Museum near his home, in Woodland, CA. Mainline Modeler magazine printed those drawings in exact 1:25 scale, which made them really easy to use. The truck itself is a complete vehicle, an astoundingly solid "barn find" from a ranch in Montana.

The whole thing is actually based off the Beverly Hillbillie's car, which is a 20-21 Oldsmobile touring car, having the rear of the body lopped off, and a crude flat bed built on it. The front 2.5" of the frame, fenders, running boards, radiator, firewall, engine/tranny, front axle, rear axle and wheels are all pretty much straight from the BhB car. All the rest is coming from my stash of Evergreen. The cab will be as the actual truck, done in 1/32" birch plywood and basswood strip framing. The bed is going to be an ice delivery body, though.

Biscuitbuilder

[Biscuitbuilder]

Here's a view of the chassis from above.

Biscuitbuilder

[Southgate]

This will be an interesting build to follow. And an Ice truck is a nice alternative too. no pun intended. Dan

[theflame]

Whatever happened to this one Art? I remember seeing this way-back when...

[j_nigrelli]

didn't this evolve to the stick-built 'telephone booth' cab with working doors?