I wish they made this vehicle in O scale.

Anything from the 1950's

Great looking truck.  In Wisconsin many years ago I saw a royal blue semi with a velveeta package on the side.  It was cheesy of course and stunning.

J Daddy great looking truck, thanks for posting

Alex

Nice truck.  I would love to have one.  In particularly, the color and paint scheme, and the script Coors looks very cool.

Closest I've seen is the truck below.  A bit broader in the nose but close otherwise.  It's an ERTL model, but I know little about it except that I got it about a year ago at a swap meet and intend to convert it to 'Streets. If I can find another I might try a repaint, but I want to preserve this one for its Lionel connection.

As to what vehicles I want I O gauge, the list is sooooo long.  In particular, I would love good models of a '55 Olds Super 88 sedan, and a '61 Plymouth Valiant.

What year is THAT Coors truck?  It looks old enough for me to use right outside my

kitbashed beverage distributor...Is that a Mack?  And all us train nuts drooling over competitive transportation...have we no shame?  I'd buy one if it wasn't Brooklin

priced.  In fact, it looks like one of the, I now think defunct, products of an S scale

truck manufacturer that I used to see, up above that hobby shop in Strasburg.  Whatever happened to them?  I wrote them years ago and said, "puh-leeze make

them in 1/4 inch, too" (to no avail).

That is a Mack, probably a E model that built was built from 1936 to 1950 according to a chart in John Montville's Mack.

Lee:

A couple years ago, at a toy show a vender had a 1/43 60 or 61 Valiant. It may have been from Australia as it was right hand drive. I could kick myself for not purchasing it.

That truck is a model of a 1950 C.O.E Chevrolet. It was offered with a dry goods van, a tanker or a tow truck body If you remove the body, you will it is a simi-tractor.

About 1999 that truck along with a Diamond T tractor-trailer were made exclusively for Die Cast Direct by Ertl

I really like that vintage Mack cab-over.  Anyone know what year it actually is?  My guess would place it about 1948 - 1951, which makes it perfect for the 1950 era of my layout.  Now if we could only get that "Colorado Kool-Aid" name off the truck and replace it with a real beer like Blatz of Pabst or even Schlitz, it would occupy a starring location on my layout!

Paul Fischer

Eastwood had several vehicles that Lee likes utilizing the 1950 Chevy cab. They had an Eastwood and a Weaver tractor trailer and a panel van similar to the Lionel one.

Here are some shots. Lee, is this what you are looking for?

Ertl’s 50 Chevy, 60 Chevy, 48 Diamond T and 47 International were available to consumers as semi tractors without trailers. Versions with tanker, dry goods vans and tow truck bodies as well as trailers were exclusively custom imprinted.
The 37 Ford was only offered custom imprinted.

About 20 years ago Eastwood Automobileia cataloged a verity of resin cast bodies that fit the Ertl semi-tractors.

At that time I still was in HO, I could kick myself for not buying some.

This is an Ertl 37 Ford with a dump body from Berkshire Valley

Richard, did you make the coal chutes or did you buy them? I made the mercer coal silos on another post and had a hard time with the chutes.

I made the chutes from evergreen styrene, The chain is from Campbell Scale Models

Thank you Richard. They came out very nice. Here is what mine looks like.

That is very cool looking stuff guys. Really nice.

I've got two of the Chevy and one of the Diamond T, two others that are somewhat similar.  Got to go study to decide what they are.