Road Train Prime Mover .

[scummy]

Five trucks enter , one truck leaves .
My next resto project is to make a heavy duty prime mover out of the 5 autocar wrecks i've brought of ebay , they are all complete ,the missing parts are in the tipper bodys . I'm still not sure if i should leave the front axle where it is or move it forward , the main truck i will be using is the red one with the decal on the door as it's the best constructed one .

[Deleted]

You have your work cut out for you, my friend. Are you goung to make it a DC tractor or an A-Series? I supose if you really wanted to you could make it a Diamond REO or a White as they all used the same cab.

[scummy]

I'm going to build it up to be a DC, i've seen two of these huge monsters outback and they are very impressive .

[crackerboxkid]

I prefer the older Autocars as road tractors, back when they were considered one of the fancier brands on the highways, but I'm sure your beast is gonna be nice... At least you've got plenty of raw material to work with!

[scummy]

G,day mate , I just found out that i've won another one on ebay ! So now there's six .
Autocars in australia have always been work horses , back in those days we never had fancy anything every truck was a work truck . The most fancy thing done was chrome bright the rims , chrome bright was sortof spray chrome in a can LOL. Below is a photo of one of the beasts that was found and restored , the photos are from the collection of rhyss crosskill .

[Deleted]

Nice looking AutoCar.

[scummy]

.Ok , we pulled it down today , the guy that built it really knew how to build . Minimal amount of glue was used but didnt scrape the chrome or paint away from the glue areas , there are no brake boosters or rear air tank so i duno how he stopped the thing . Below is how it is today and tomorrow it's paint stripper time .

[Deleted]

Looks like enough parts to build a good one. Maybe a couple parts left over.

[scummy]

I think i'll have buckets loads of left overs . I'm thinking of putting together a quarry hack truck when i'm done with the prime mover .

[crackerboxkid]

I be lovin' me some A-Cars! If I could figure out to post pictures, I'd like to get my old relic on the forum. 'Built it way back in '84! It made it into the pages of Overdrive magazine as the only model to be featured as "Antique of the Month"!

[scummy]

Well today i spent 5 hours in the back yard in the sun filing the places that had glue on them and the factory seam lines . I also looked at the steering linkages and worked out how to convert from LHD to RHD , not that hard when you dont get interupted . No photo's today as there's nuthin to see .

[scummy]

.Ok , this last couple of weeks have been busy . The chassis has been put back together and had the locating things removed and painted .


The steering has all been removed and placed onto the right hand side .


The heavy duty rear has been rebuilt and installed .

Now , as before with the boss rebuild this truck has bigger wheels than all the other amt kits . So with this kit it has super single steer tyres so i had to grind down the outer rims so i could put the standard tyres on the steer .

[bandit1]

Apr 26, 2012 18:08:34 GMT -5 scummy said:

Five trucks enter , one truck leaves .
My next resto project is to make a heavy duty prime mover out of the 5 autocar wrecks i've brought of ebay , they are all complete ,the missing parts are in the tipper bodys . I'm still not sure if i should leave the front axle where it is or move it forward , the main truck i will be using is the red one with the decal on the door as it's the best constructed one .

Nice work so far!...What would it take to get that light blue one for myself?...

[truckabilly]

What an impressive wreck yard. I like it the way it is. Some weathering for the abuse look and there you go. Just my idea. I am looking forward to seeing your prime mover done.
Jarda

[scummy]

Bandit , what ya gona do with it ?