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Chad300tdt · #31 08-15-2008, 08:33 AM

That one was done very nicely as well.

Looks like it's pretty quick too.

I think it still looks like a rig though. One of the things I like about the other one is it looks like a normal truck.

Comparing the two trucks next to each other definitely makes the silver one look plain.

t walgamuth · #32 08-15-2008, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by OMEGAMAN

People will look back on that truck and say "wow someone put a lot of effort into that thing" Not "jeez what waste they could have made half a dozen ****ty tiny cars out of all that metal so Mistel and all his worthless malcontent looser friends could ride around and feel good about themselves"

But thats Just me.

Actually you are both right!

Tom W

t walgamuth · #33 08-15-2008, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

Peter Pan Buslines has a Futurliner that shows up at antique truck shows and at the Big E (New England's County Fair).

http://www.futurliner.com/pan.htm

I saw one of these a few years ago unrestored outside of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg museum and thought ...."neat" and about a year or so later one sold for a mil or so.

Tom W

t walgamuth · #34 08-15-2008, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

Stacks would look cool too, but I like that it has more of a "non-commercial" truck feel without them.

I think they did an amazing job with the proportions of the truck. It looks like the big brother of this one:

I'd like to see someone do a pickup using this cab:

The last few years I have had a hankering for one of these a pickups for the reception of a diesel swap.

A 240d would be sweet around town.

Tom W

cmac2012 · #35 08-16-2008, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

Please stop egging me on.

Every now and then an International Metro shows up in the Bargain News and that aforementioned, unsupportable "vision" pops up.

I'd really dig a 40's-early 50's school bus to make into a camper, either ratrod or hotrod themed. A local bus company has had a couple sitting in their back lot for years. I guess I should be thankful that I don't have anywhere to put it otherwise I'd have anothe p.o.s. project sitting around in my yard waiting for time, energy, money and ambition.

There's a downside to that. I bought a '59 Ford schoolbus years ago, hoping to make an RV out of it. It was mega long and had a turning radius worse than modern vehicles of the same length. The steering was manual and really serious workout when you had to extricate yourself from an intersection that you judged incorrectly, owing to the lousy turning radius.

Plus the tranny was non-synchro, much double clutching and that was only effective some of the time.

In short, I abandoned the project and sold it to a younger hippie with the same original fantasy I had.

I do like the bodies on those old rigs, those Allied moving vans pictured -- if you could put in a new drive train and front end (w/power steering) could be really cool, but sounds like a "bring money" sort of project.