Check this out. He even reproduced the typical rust holes and the rotted out bed. Even put a little flathead six in it. This is cool.

Building A Ford Flathead Six Engine

 

Back in the days when I was younger I did that stuff. I use to take piano wire and run it through the drive shaft, engine and tranny to the fan blade. I had it hooked up to a small tape recorder motor and a watch battery hidden in the trunk so the fan blade would spin. Its hard to do models now since I don't have the steadiness like I did when I was younger...

 

I guess I don't understand completely, apparently the Ford kit had a V8 engine? A lot of trouble to "make" a flat 6! The finish on that truck helps it look to scale. Sometimes shiny finish looks out of proportion.

 

It's seems funny that we spend countless hours to make our trucks shiny and new, then turn around and make our shiny new models look like rust buckets! Very cool and props for making such a nice representation of my truck....
Wade

 

I know the exact truck he modeled this model after. I saw it sitting in the north side storage place back around that time. It had to the trucks, there can't be very many '50 Ford trucks sitting in a storage place on the north side of Milwaukee. I was always planning to go back and find out who owned it and see if it could be bought. I doubt if it's still there, I'll have to take a ride past it some day. The storage charges for that truck, if it's still there, would have added over $8100 to the cost of the truck. My brother paid $40 a month for over three years to store a ten year old wash machine, some people aren't too bright.

 

pretty impressive. put that in a diarama, take a pic or two, and it could pass for real.