Daron NYC Sanitation Truck. Figures are "convicts" from a Model Power set I got. I figure sanitation workers wear coveralls, and if I worked a garbage truck on NYC streets, I'd want to be wearing day-glow orange! I just love the guy hanging off the back.
This runs great (I upgraded to an oversized flywheel motor, and it gets power from all six wheels and an extra center pickup I added at the bac). But it was a difficult conversion (short diecast cab-over cabs like this always are, and the multi-piece plastic rear body was both difficult to nail down tightly to the chassis, and so light I had to add four ounces of weight) and it is too wide: in the first video it runs through downtown smoothly, but you will see multiple places where I had to remove parked cars, etc. In the second video (which I took earlier) you will see the rear bobble three times as it brushes parked cars. Eighteen-wheelers and buses make it through downtown without my having the remove any parked cars. This guy is just too wide with all that mechansim hanging off the sides.
Still, it looks so cool with the two figures in the cab and that guy hanging off the back.
When I was a kid I thought it was so cool that the guy would ride standing on the back. The model has little fold down platforms for the guys are the rear: he's standing on one!
I had to remove a total of eight cars to get this video of a clear run down Mainstreet. Never had to do that before.
This is a video prior to that above - I had removed several parked cars that caused total wrecks before, but still I got the three times in this video where the truck brushes up against a parked car.
This truck goes on a shelf for now. I will eventually find a diecast garbage truck that is just a tad narrower (1/8 inch on each side would do it) and diecast: then just saw the rear off and use that: I love the cab of this.
Edit: Geez, I'm slow today. The rear body is plastic. Tomorrow I'll take a bandsaw and cut 1/4 out of the middle of it and glue to the two sides together, them put it back on the chassis: problem solved.
