A different truck build thread

[GB SISSON]

Some of you will recall a photo I posted about 5 years ago depicting a somewhat crude wooden model of a '32 ford stakebed that I once owned. Some 40 years ago, the day before my son's 3rd birthday I made a sketch of the '32 and constructed the toy from scrapwood. It remains in good shape on a shelf in his long abandoned bed room, although it's now missing it's rear duals, which I stole yesterday to use for my grandson's toy Foyota.
Yesterday morning about ten am I decided to build a model toy of my wacky foyota project. I removed the stakebed's wheels so I could work out a scale, carefully propping the rear on a wood block and setting a plastic WW2 walkie talkie in front of the bare rear axle. With this wheel at 2 3/4" the scale would be loosely, 1/12. Perfect! Easy as they get, I drew a quick sketch of the jailbar foyota, which I had parked close to the shop. Keep in mind these toy trucks are not perfectly to scale or highly detailed. My hope is they look like something an old grandpa woulda built during lean times, with what he had on hand. Since I'm now semi-retired I feel ok if this one takes two days, but I'm feeling the heat, on shipping to Seattle. Last evening at six when my wife called me in to supper, I got the ol' "Why do you always wait til the last second?" lecture. Sheesh, Last Second? I've got like ten days and I still have to make some kinda furniture for his sister's American Girl doll (half day easy)...Anyway here's the truck before I took the wheels. (I found some nice 2 3/4" similar from a hubley truck on ebay so ordered them last night about 11 pm. for relacements. Yikes) And a picture of the early stages. It currently has a bed, a hood/cowl, front and rear fenders and I just milled out some weathered bedwood, which will go down in the next ten minutes. Stay tuned , I only have until six, so the race is on. Ho Ho Ho