PACEMAKER
Comparing a stock AMT Peterbilt 352 COE with my modified version.
Several views showing 2 Peterbilt Cabovers. The red and white is a 2 axle 282, modified to look like a pre-1970 model. Inset headlights, small under-door step pocket. The exhaust stacks have been in-set into the rear corners of the cab.
This was a common practice on west-coast cabovers until the late 1970's.
Both of these trucks started as built-ups purchased off ebay. The red, silver and black tandem axle tractor is a 352. This only required the silver being painted, the extra thin stripes added, and reassembly.
The 352 wears Pirkle Refrigerated Freight Lines door signs.
OLD GOLD
1976 Peterbilt 359 long hood. For Sale the sign says in the windshield! Stretched kit frame, Scratchbuilt long hood, modified fenders, modified sleeper doors, plumbed and wired air lines to the brakes and suspension.
NEUENDORF
Mack R600 wearing Neuendorf Transportation door signs. Neuendorf was based out of Madison, Wisconsin.
GRAIN HAULER
1967 Peterbilt 359 wide-front conventional with grain trailer. The 359 started as an ebay built-up, painted THICK dark brown. All the chrome was worn off.
The "Long Haul Lines" are door sign logos from the AMT Peterbilt 352 kit (#T502), I enlarged them for the trailer.
OLD GATEWAY
Here's a GMC (or is that a Chevy?) that I built to be a Gateway Transportation truck. Not even close. They used daycabs, and didn't have reefers back in the early 70's.
MICHIGAN SPECIAL TANKER
Peterbilt 352 cabover and Fruehauf tanker. I added the 2 extra axles, modified the fuel tanks on the tractor, added square horns.
CHROME DINOSAUR MICHIGAN SPECIAL
I started building this as a box-stock tanker kit, using a fresh AMT T512 Plated Tanker Kit (Thanks Karl!). I couldn't do it. Not box-stock. I HAD to do something. So, I added extra axles, front fenders, modified the rear, used spare Revell rounded fenders, and added 3 RNK Conversions tool boxes. The Sinclair logos are from Microscale.com, and are model railroad signs!
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