1/48 scale fuel truck

[rogruth]

Egg thing on a flatbed will eventually become a cement mixer

I actually had thought of that but wasn't sure if it, the egg, was large enough.

[Big Jim]

The Testor's canopy cement was worthless

Chuck,
I find that hard to believe. I've never had a problem with it.

[chuck]

Jim, it works great on Polystyrene. It is what I use on all of my Auto and aircraft models. It just doesn't like the vacuform sheets.

The CA stuff wasn't that great either. The test piece of vacufrom to vacuform came apart without too much difficulty, at least I did have to tug on the two pieces. The canopy cement reminded me of trying to glue polystyrene with Elmer's, aka don't look at it too hard. In retrospect I should have tried a polyurethane based adhesive. There is very little that stuff doesn't stick to.

[webenda]

[webenda]

NOTE--Image is "right" clickable.

[chuck]

Wayne, thanks for the info. I wasn't in Michigan around those times (50's-60's). My exposure was limited to Queens and Rockland counties and even that was really limited. We saw mostly Shell, Esso, Amaco/Standard Oil and Mobile with a few Sinclair, Sunoco and Texaco (You can trust your car to the man who wears the star). Do remember the green. I think the only other Green one was Citco?

[Big Jim]

Chuck,
Before Citco, it was "Cities Service" and yes it was green.

[chuck]

Thanks Jim. I remember the green more than I remembered the name.

[Big Jim]

As a child, there was a Cities Service across the street from our house. Way back then the pumps had a glass dome on the side with three little balls that rotated when the gas was being pumped that kept me entertained!

[E7]

I think they were all pretty much like that. I know Gulf pumps were the same. Guess that was to prove gas was being pumped, but then your gas gauge would attest to that. I can remember my Mother getting $3 worth, which was kinda silly, as it was pay me now pay me later.

[chuck]

There was very little or no "self serve" so they wanted the occupants of the vehicle to be able to see some indication that "something" was going on. You were supposed to shut off the engine so your gas gauge wasn't going to show anything until you were done and restarted the car. I remember my mom would drive over the border into Jersey to get gas at the Shell station in Montvale, the next town over. She'd give the attendant $2 and we'd get close to half a tank. Gas was only 31 cents a gallon. I just looked up the inflation adjusted price and it's pretty close to what we are paying SE Michigan right now ~$2.50.

[rogruth]

I think they were all pretty much like that. I know Gulf pumps were the same. Guess that was to prove gas was being pumped, but then your gas gauge would attest to that. I can remember my Mother getting $3 worth, which was kinda silly, as it was pay me now pay me later.

I can remember getting 12 to 15 gallons of gas for $3.00. I think most gas tanks only held @ 16 gallons in the 1950s and '60s.

[chuck]

Here is the die cast truck after its first "surgery".



The stuff is pretty hard. I will need to slice out about 1/2" to get close to the prototype's 22-23 foot length. Egg looks about size/shape for a cement mixer. I plan on cutting off those "fuel tanks" as well. Toy had some square plastic tanks under the cab doors. I'll modify those to look closer to the prototype.

The dump truck "box" will be built up from sheet styrene. I'll look for a third "chassis" to make up an early 1960's era garbage truck. I've been collecting pictures to get some ideas.

[E7]

I think they were all pretty much like that. I know Gulf pumps were the same. Guess that was to prove gas was being pumped, but then your gas gauge would attest to that. I can remember my Mother getting $3 worth, which was kinda silly, as it was pay me now pay me later.

I can remember getting 12 to 15 gallons of gas for $3.00. I think most gas tanks only held @ 16 gallons in the 1950s and '60s.

Cheapest gas I can remember was Gulftane at 27.9 a gallon. Car in question was a 41 Caddy coupe, with a 3 on the tree. Guessing a large gas tank. Always used No-Nox, which was the premium blend, so that cost a bit more. Doubt that car ever had the needle on F.

[chuck]

Chassis cut down and tank removed. I need to make up some bridging material (maybe a couple of nails sans heads) to reattach the front and back chassis halves and then re-enforce with epoxy. I'll see if I have a Stanley mending plate that is narrow enough to fit between the main chassis rails.



The egg will be the "mixer" and I will have to use sheet styrene and spares box parts for rest of back end. I have a backhoe and a bunch of Woodland scenics construction workers to make up a work site,