Taranto Twinro K123 Rebuild

Well, Young Fella's post about his TNT K123 made me think i outa share my rebuild on my K123. I swapped this model which was built in the early '70's for a Quad Dog Tipper about 8 years ago. It just sat there until about a year ago when i decided i wanted to do a replica of one of Taranto Twinro's cabovers. So ithrew it in the freezer for a week (makes the glue brittle, missus hated it though!) then broke it down and stripped the paint off with caustic soda. I've put about 3/4's of the K123 parts i manufacture into this one as i'll also be using it for advertising etc. So out went the Cummins and in went one of my Silver 8V92's with a rear mounted turbo, after much deliberation i left the Hendrickson in instead of putting my Torsion bars in (building a W-Model with T/bars anyway), long range tanks, twin aircleaners with road train style roof mounted intakes and old style Donaldson silver air rams, 1/24th Malco's, 7" headlights, updated rear cab mounts, Durabar bullbar and a bucket load of other things! Got 3 weeks to have it totally finished for the model show in Ballarat on the 25th and it'll get there... i hope!
This is it before....


And now.

I just love rebuilds , gives you the pleasure of takin trucks that are past their used by date and getting them up and lookin a million dollars .

g'day seattle .. she's looking real good mate. looking at the cab proportions, is there any way the sunvisor can be trimmed or something ?...just not thin enough and mounted a litte too low

all the best with the deadline....cheers

Great work Seattle, can't wait to see it finished at the Ballarat Show.

Thanks Yeah, definitly know what you mean Detective. Going to break out the old grinder today and trim a couple of mm's off it 'cause it just don't look right.
Whoever built it before used a tube and half of glue on the thing, otherwise i would've taken it off for painting and refitted it properly. Actually the old AMT K123 sunvisors were never quite right in the first place come to think of it, too deep in the centre.

.. it must have been across the model run as young fella's is the same

ps young fella i'll dig out those pete pics by next weekend and post them

Gday Seattle,

I notice the wiring, are you lighting up the cab?

Looks fantastic, I'm gound to have to break ot mine I think.

Good luck DW :

Hey Seattle, any 'in progress' photos?

Yep, and here they are
Not a whole lot left to do, have it finished by Friday no worries. Not happy with the engine angle but it's locked in now! Also know the Re-car mudflaps probably aren't correct but do you think i could find a photo of one, nup! But these look good so that's that!

looking good seattle62kw .. the battery box ??...

keep up the good work....cheers