Mixed Freight posted:Your Carter County school buses are Dodges (or Plymouths) of the 1939 to 1947 body style. If you could find 1/48 (or 1/43 or 1/50) 2-ton truck model (flatbed, stake bed, cargo box, or whatever), a school bus body should be a relatively easy scratch-build, if you're into that sort of thing. Probably have to be scratch-built, because I don't think I've ever seen a school bus model of that type and vintage.
I started comparing the 1939 Dodge fronts to that and yep, you nailed it. I never noticed the inverted arrow in front of the grille until just now, due to the angle of the photo.
Let's compare the front ends:
Yep, that's it, all right. The bodies must have bene made by some company, and there were several in the south doing so. I agree that scratch building them shouldn't be that tough. I just need a 1/43-scale front end to make it work.
Thanks, Paul, I couldn't find this on my own after looking through a lot of vehicles, as it didn't occur to me it was a custom body mounted onto something in production.
