1:43 vehicles - MOBIL fuel truck

Revell also reissued with Shell decals in 1980 same kit but molded in white rather than the red the original kit was molded in.  herb deeks used the same kit as a basis for a resin tanker truck about 1/2 the length of this one.

I blundered across one of these. The plan is to re-paint it green and decal it for Sinclair to match my MTH gas station and Weaver tank cars.

  Revell also issued a mid 50s Chevrolet stake truck, a 56 Ford pickup, and a Kenworth tractor trailer.  Same scale as the White tanker.  I saw the mid 90s reissues at Plaza Hobby in LaVale MD about 20 years ago. 

Jeff,

Check out www.oldmodelkits.com , search civil truck, Revell, 1/48. They show the Mobil Tanker and pickup kits as available.

John 

Jeff: Check out eBay (1:43 fuel truck).  There a lot of nice ones there, but you will had e to do a repaint, but, they're pretty cool.  I especially like the Russian versions.  Bob S.

Not that many years ago it was produced in diecast. I cannot remember which company. I do remember that it was much larger than 1:43. Darn, It's a bugger-bear when a person cannot remember poo-poo anymore.

I have a very nice die-cast Mobil tanker. I think the scale is 1:50 and it's by Corgi, but I'm not sure. It's at the bottom of a box at the bottom of a pile. I'll get it out later today and post a photo. It is a threee-axle truck, not a semi.

   My brother gave me the 1956 Ford pickup kit reissue about 20 years ago.  This kit is molded in a light blue plastic.  The box art is the same as the original 1950s issue.  The kit comes with a motorcycle, police officer, truck driver, plastering tools, and decals.  The motorcycle, I'm guessing, is a Harley Davidson, and is very well detailed.  My guess is the the kit is scalled at 1/48. 

    I also have a built up original 1956 Ford pickup I bought at a now closed train shop many years ago.  I found a  White tanker,a Chevrolet stakebed, and a Kenworth tractor trailer at a car show/flea market many years ago.  All were built-up.  I cleaned them up and repainted them as best I could.  The stakebed especially was a glue bomb. 

Here is the Corgi Mobil tanker. It is a Mack LJ. The packaging does not specify the scale but it fits in nicely with my other 0 scale trucks. I'm guessing 1/48 or 1/50. It's about 7-8 inches long. The package calls it a Corgi Die-Cast Collectible. You can see that it is steam era.

Unfortunately it may be difficult and expensive to find one like it. I got mine at a train show ten or more years ago for 30 bucks or so, but there's a recent sale on eBay for $115. I'm glad I got mine when I did. You still may be able to find one for a reasonable price at a train or toy show.