MOVIN' ON - Page 3 Model Trucks

This page shows Movin'On model trucks from various model builders.

In the mid 70's model maker AMT saw a need for a Movin' On "Sonny truck," and released a version. Boy, was it incorrect! The kit had the right stripe for the series, but the way-wrong truck.

The AMT kit could make a nice In Tandem Truck with some minor modifications. Remove the left stack and breather, add 5 hole Budd rear wheels, shorten the fuel tanks, paint the correct stripes, and the frame might have to be shortened.

My AMT kit, modified to be a correct In Tandem pilot movie truck. See more of this and my Movin'On trucks at this site.

Robby Gaines' Sonny Pruitt KW VIT

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Another view of Sonny's truck by Robby Gaines.

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Mike Perhach's 1/16th scale Sonny Truck.

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Eric Macha's Sonny Truck from the AMT kit.

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Ken Jeager's Sonny Truck

Karr Young's Sonny Truck.

Both were featured in Lou Kroack's Table Top Trucking column in issued of Owner/Operator Magazine in the mid 1970's.

Andre DeVries Sonny Truck based on the AMT kit.

If you have a Movin' On model, send me a picture of it!

If you are looking for specific information and wish to build a Movin'On truck, here are some ideas! Obtain a Revell of Germany 1/25th scale Kenworth W900 or Austrailian W900 kit. You'll need an AMT kit's short hood and fuel tanks, and a Cummins 903 engine from an Ertl International 4270 Transtar Conventional (or a resin version of the engine). The Series trucks had the KW Torsion Bar suspension. An AMT kit with that is rare, a resin cast copy might be available.

The Revell kit is a darn-near perfect KW VIT. Either a set of the AMT kit decals,or paint your own stripes. Remember, the "arrow" does not extend onto the cab on a Movin' On truck, only an In Tandem truck.

THE BEST way to have accurate and easily done Sonny Stripes is to go to WWW.JBOT.CA
and order a set of Movin'On Stripes! JBOT decals has done a complete set of Sonny Stripes for In Tandem, Movin'On and even includes the stripe and door-sign on Will Chandler's KW COE in the pilot episode! These decals are superb!

My "Phantom" Movin'On COE sporting JBOT stripes. I built this model under the theory that Sonny had branched out in the late 70's and bought another truck, a COE for east-coast runs.

Movin' On was full of ideas for truck models to build. One episode had Sonny and Will in an old KW narrow-nose west-coast logger, in another episode, a woman driver had a fancy GMC Astro-95 cabover all decked out. Of course there is Moose and Benji's beat-up GMC Crackerbox COE. A Diamond Reo Raider that Will test drove. A long-framed White-Freightliner. Then all the trucks in the racing scene, including Tyrone Malone's Boss Truck, double-sleeper KW W900 with the whitewalls and all that chrome! So many ideas..