Autocar Heavy Dump

[phoneguy]

Started with the Autocar Dump truck and swapped dump beds with the Freightliner Heavy Dump.

still have more work to do on it, when I find time.

Jerry

[mackinac359]

A beast !

Tim

[Old Albion]

I agree with Tim. That is a beast!!!

Like the green paint and the custom painted Cummins diesel.

Good Luck with the rest of the build.

[ABC Auto Industry]

Wow! That truck is awesome! Where'd you get the custom wheels?

[phoneguy]

the front spokes are resin that I picked up on a trade with a fellow builder.

Jerry

[phoneguy]

Here's the final pics....

[mackinac359]

I'll repeat my previous comment:

What a beast !

Tim

[phoneguy]

Thanks, Tim. Coming from you, that means a lot.

Jerry

[Jim B]

Jerry,

Coll looking truck. Tim's right, a real beast. The exhaust through the hood, I don't get it. Do they really do that?

[phoneguy]

Thanks for the comments guys.

James, I've seen some pics somewhere on Hank's site that had a few older trucks with the exhaust similar to that, but I don't recall which ones.

Jerry

[Jim B]

With the exhaust comming directly out of the engine like that it must be un-Godly loud. Cannot even begine to immagine what that would sound like. Where would a truck like this be used: mines & quarries?

[dptydawg]

Back in the 60's there was a Sicard snowplow that ran past our house. it had a 250 Cummins with an exhaust stack that came straight up out of the hood. It was ungodly loud. One of the old operators tells me that if they stood on it in front of the bank, the vibrations shook the windows enough to set of the alarms. It would wake me up at night when the went by.

So you exhaust system did exist in real life

Thanks

Carl Avis

[Old Albion]

Jerry,

Great truck! Yes a beast.

Jim B Check Dave Natale's web site:

www.aitruckmodels.com

He shows his Old Mack LM with the exhaust through the hood.

[ABC Auto Industry]

Great job! The exhaust coming from the hood is pretty unusual. I've never seen anything like it. Are there any trucks in real life with this setup?

[dptydawg]

Are there any trucks in real life with this setup?

I found an old slide I had of the Sicard I mentioned earlier. Its not a great pic but...

The plow on the right is an FWD the one on the left is a head on shot of the Sicard. If you look to the left of the windshield centre line there is a dark object. That is the exhaust pipe coming straight up out of the hood. The bump on the roof is a rotqting light

I believe this oicture was taken around 1962

Thanks

Carl

EDIT: I just took a closer look at the picture. My memory must be going because the truck on the right looks like a Sicard and the one with the verticle hood stack looks like an FWD. Anyway the one on the left still has the stack

Edited November 19, 2007 by dptydawg

[ABC Auto Industry]

The plow on the right is an FWD the one on the left is a head on shot of the Sicard...

I've heard of FWD trucks before, but not Sicard. Must not have been an overly familiar company.