Race car transport

This little Dodge has been sitting on the shelf for several years waiting for a job. I think I have a job for it now. Transport for the Mopar drag cars I have been working on.

The Mercury sleeper looks like a good place to start.

We'll see where this goes.

Looks like a nice start   

Another mockup pic
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Cool. The Lindberg L-700 does make into a nice model with some TLC.
Nice project
  

Nice project!

  Very nice. That's a real sow's ear you started with. Not one now.  

Some progress. The frame stretch was done some 25 yrs ago with plastruct and super glue. I tried to modify it but it was not happening so I worked with what I had. I found a forum that had 80 pages of old racecar transporters that I browsed for ideas. This on will be getting tool boxes along the sides under the ramps.

That is going to be a nice ramp truck when you get it done.

That's looking great Dan. The cab looks a lot like The Little red Wagon.

Skid wrote:That's looking great Dan. The cab looks a lot like The Little red Wagon.

Yep, can see the resemblence there. Interesting build & coming along well too.

Dodge used the same style on the 2 ton medium duty cabover as it did on the 1/2 ton mini pickups in the 60s. This is like Ford and Chevy did with the F and C series trucks. An F-250 3/4 ton in the 60s and 70s had a similar but not identical cab to the F-600 2 ton. Chevy did the same with C10 - C60 trucks. The Dodges were not nearly as common as the others.

Truck did a nose dive off the bench :( It may take quite some time to get it back.

heepey wrote:Truck did a nose dive off the bench :( It may take quite some time to get it back.

Nooooo, I was looking forward to seeing some more progress photos of it, so sorry...

Hope it's not beyond repair though...

Andy...

I hate it when that happens. Good luck with the rebuild.

during the repairs it did another face plant. May not recover 

Oh man that's a shame Dan. You were doing such a great job too.  

That Sucks !! ...Sorry
 

O.K. Let's vote to buy him a bigger table...and one with little guardrail all 'round it!

I guess now I have to learn how to scratch build door hinges

Got it back together. added some more details plus a little rust on the wheels. Next to build loading ramps and add lights to the bed.

I'm glad you got it back together Dan..... looks just as good. Well done!

Looks good. you can't even tell it had a wreck.

Got more details on, made some loading ramps. When I look at the pictures I can spot all the things that I missed and need to redo.

Looking better and netter all the time. Nice race combo.