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Cant wait to be filled in on the next update

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Speaking of Stool Bus i think i have found the perfect paint job for your build:D:D

Mike

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y6gteu78mF.../Stool+Bus.jpg

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LMAO :p :eek: Now thats 1 SHORT stool bus :eek::eek::p:p:p IDK :confused: I was gona polish the tank :confused::p

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staring at this thing , an Idea to be different with a wedico pete popped into my head and I just had to see how it would look :o It's a little rough but just a mock up so I know how I want to proceed . I think I'm liking the 379xth look ( I think :confused:) Now new fenders or needed and diffinately a new grill :D also a new scale front axle to get the hight right :confused: thats not going to happen anytime soon :o as I got enough on my plate :rolleyes::o
when I make the actual hood it'll be in 3 pieces panel glued and rivited ( not p rivets either:rolleyes:) .

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1638.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1637.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1639.jpg

thanks for looking aaand more gray hairs till next time :p

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I think that truck will be awesome! I just hop it doesn't leak like the one I was following on my motorcycle a couple of weeks ago! Thought I was following a cattle truck.....and found out it was worse!

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That's right Steve...Who say's you can't polish a turd!!:p:p:p:D:D

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Aha, excellent. New and different. Another name company name suggestion, "R.C. Crapper"

You guys do realise that the modern flush toilet was actually revolutionised by a John Crapper? Hence where the phrase comes from.

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Looks good Steve. May I suggest that you lower the fenders a bit though.

Brian

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Oh those ------- things are findin a new home :rolleyes: yea they're to high :confused: I'm starting to get the feel for making a pete ( I hope :o) I only grew up around IH or mack :o and wished to have a W900A

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Thats alright Steve you''ll come to your senses someday:p:p:D:D JK!

Brian

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LOL, a friend once told me you wanna drive in style you get a pete , you wanna work get a IH :p

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LOL!

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Hey Steve, which Mack's have you owned or driven?
I had an RD and now a CL713
Later, Neil.

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owned "74" u685 tractor drove a DM can't remember the # long a-- hard nose w/300v8 the bigest dog I drove :eek:I never got in any post 80's :( the DM was a 2 stick no PS

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Hoods, grills, wheels, tanks... Ya just need to try your hand at a few more pieces and before ya know it you'll have made a whole truck from scratch...:D:D

Looking goood.

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Yah those v-8's sounded great!
Later, Neil.

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Wow Steve, nobody but you would attempt body work on a metal cab wedico! And I always wondered to myself if anyone had ever attempted converting the wedico 359 to a 379. This may be a world premiere! If you're making this into a long nose pete, are you still gonna make it a poop truck?? New fenders, long hood, lower axle... Sounds like a large car to me!

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yea , still a pumper but not sure on keeping the wedi chassis :confused: I was toying with doing this before I even got a hold of a wedi it's nothing new to me I remade a lot of old IH rusted out body pannels . I'm not sure I'll be the only 1 but I'm only doing this once . I thought about making a die , but for just this 1 , I'm going with the hammer and sand bag route . I might make a mini english wheel though

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Hey Steve, have you considered cutting the mold & die via cnc, and using a hydraulic press to crunch out the pieces? My neighbor's make there mold's out of hardwood for 1 time use, or aluminum for multi use. Market for the corn binder's?
Later, Neil.

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Neil I don't think to many people restore the old bubble nose fleetstars I did enough of them :eek: 1 of them is 3 cabs in 1 + new hammered back corners the 1st 1 I ran I put 3 549 gassers in then converted it over to diesel with a 466B then rebuilt that motor before the frame rotted through at the tandems its now a single axle . still has the best cab in the fleet next to my 2070A . the 3 cabs in 1 has yet to get back together My dad is hoping to put it on a s1900 frame before he passes to put my 1st back together , to complete the old fleet . If he doesn't I will in my spare time :rolleyes: