Dodge Truck Customs?

gburch · Post by **gburch** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:15 am

Has anyone used the 21c Dodge trucks as the starting point for customs of other variants? There were lots of them:

http://users.beagle.com.au/mtrpool/3q.html

http://users.beagle.com.au/mtrpool/half.html

http://users.beagle.com.au/mtrpool/onehalf.html

http://users.beagle.com.au/mtrpool/vc.html

I picked up a command car and one of the double-rear-axle trucks cheap on eBay -- mangled "customs" where someone started to do some "weathering," freaked out when they saw how it was turning out and sold them for next to nothing. I'm thinking of getting out the Dremel and the styrene stock and going to town. Anyone else done this?

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:50 am

Since the 3/4 and 1 1/2 ton Dodge trucks have already been made by 21C, what is the purpose of turning a CC into one of those?

The other two pics you have (1/2 ton and VC/VF Dodges) are entirely different trucks than the later WC Dodges. Different wheelbases, different, smaller wheels. Might as well made the entire truck from scratch.

TTT

gburch · Post by **gburch** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:37 am

Threetoughtrucks wrote:Since the 3/4 and 1 1/2 ton Dodge trucks have already been made by 21C, what is the purpose of turning a CC into one of those?

The other two pics you have (1/2 ton and VC/VF Dodges) are entirely different trucks than the later WC Dodges. Different wheelbases, different, smaller wheels. Might as well made the entire truck from scratch.

TTT

I was thinking, for instance, the ambulance ...

exether_mega · Post by **exether_mega** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:50 am

[quote="gburchI was thinking, for instance, the ambulance ...[/quote]

The ambulance version would be cool to have

phil

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:15 am

I removed the "canvass" part and the support poles on one of my 21c Dodge trucks to give it an open bed. I've got it stashed away for the moment, but my eventual goal is to repaint it into a USMC vehicle so that my Marine figures will have some sort of transport.

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:46 pm

The WC ambulance is a neat idea but as a custom conversion from the existing Dodge trucks, it means a major reconstruction and many hours of work.

An alternative is the Dodge WC-64 KD ambulance. It is the 3/4 ton truck body and added sides, top and rear door. It in itself is an interesting truck. The walls collapsed and allowed the truck to reduced headroom for transport of the truck.

It's a viable if you want an ambulance for your troops...

TTT

kevrut · Post by **kevrut** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:16 pm

I made these a few years ago and posted them here.

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:57 am

Now, that is nice work. Relatively simple custom and a great idea.

TTT

kevrut · Post by **kevrut** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:20 pm

Thanks.

Buddy · Post by **Buddy** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:12 pm

cool customs

gburch · Post by **gburch** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:31 am

kevrut wrote:I made these a few years ago and posted them here.

That's very much what I have in mind -- very nice. I've finished some other projects and started on mine -- disassembling the command car "custom" glue bomb I picked up on eBay for a song, undoing what the previous owner had done, and am looking for reference materials. This site:

http://www.command-car.com/commandcarcom2.html

has some excellent details.

I'm definitely going to try the KD ambulance first.

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:52 am

Your source site has some very nice pics. The one shot of a dockside shot of ambulances in the rain is interesting.

The trucks seem to be a little bigger than the WC-54 3/4 ton Dodges. Dodge did make a 1 ton Dodge ambulance which we did not put into service and Dodge sold them to our allies. I've not seen pics of them before and I wonder if that is them?

TTT

kevrut · Post by **kevrut** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:16 am

I just found my other pic. I hinged the backdoor too.

Thanks.