Friday, July 24, 2020

a 2/3 scale replica of a 1960 Freightliner Model 8164T Tilt-Cab COE Tractor built by Ken Self, who played a major role in that design and went on to become president, and then chairman, of Freightliner. Thanks Burkey, and Bruce and Bob!



This truck is at the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum in Brooks, Oregon. The truck is 6BT powered and has a matching trailer.

He also built a 2/3 scale 1950 Bubblenose Freightliner which is also on display at the museum. Both trucks are fully functional and mechanical works of art.


This is the Ken Self  2/3-scale replica of a 1950 Freightliner COE “Bubblenose” with a Sleeper Cab.

This is a model of the first Freightliner truck sold to a private carrier: the Hyster Corporation of Portland, Oregon.  Freightliner bought the real truck in 1976 and restored and donated it to the Smithsonian Institution.

The 1950 Freightliner COE “Bubblenose” could legally pull 35-foot trailers in states with 45-foot overall length limits.

This fully road-worthy model, built and donated by Ken Self, has a wheelbase of 93 inches and an overall length of 13'-3". It is powered by a 160-horsepower Cummins 6BT 6-cylinder engine with a 5-speed Fuller transmission.

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/my-next-truck/
https://www.deviantart.com/oregonrailfan/art/2-3-Scale-Model-of-1950-Freightliner-COE-808672087


In the mid-1930s Leland James, president of Consolidated Truck Lines set out to built a truck that was lightweight, durable and easy to maintain.

He directed his mechanics to experiment with different designs and materials. James became interested in using a cab-over-engine design for an increased payload, and aluminum to reduce weight.

 A Portland CF Team built their first cab-over-engine model in 1937 and began working with aluminum.

In 1940, James led Consolidated Freightways, Inc. (it had been renamed in 1939) and five other freight carriers to form Freightways Manufacturing Company, Inc., and early trucks bore the "Freightways" name.

The Freightliner Corporation was started in 1942, with the first trucks being built at a Consolidated Freightways shop in Salt Lake City. Freightliner opened its first factory on NW Quimby Street in Portland, Oregon, in 1947.

http://placespages.blogspot.com/2014/06/freightliner-western-star-trucks-at.html

7 comments:

  1. That is cool. You'll also get a kick out of this guy's work.
    https://journal.classiccars.com/2016/07/19/ernie-adams-big-passion-building-little-cars/

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    1. Robert... I already have. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/07/ernie-adams-builds-his-own-miniature.html
      And it's so annoying to get sent links to other websites when I've already covered something.... I mean, where's the love? Didn't I cover it? Was my effort wasted? Not good enough?
      You're not here to get me to look at someone else's site to see that they did a better job, are you?

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  2. That truck is at the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum in Brooks, Oregon (great museum by the way). The truck is 2/3 scale and was built by Ken Self, a retired executive at Freightliner. The truck is 6BT powered and has a matching trailer. He also built a 2/3 scale 1950 Bubblenose Freightliner which is also on display at the museum. Both trucks are fully functional and mechanical works of art.

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  3. Fantastic truck. Very impressive. This is what I found :
    It belongs to the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum in Brooks Oregon. It was a personal project of Ken Self who was a President of Freightliner Corp. This is one of two.

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  4. "This is a 2/3 scale replica of a 1960 Freightliner Model 8164T Tilt-Cab COE Tractor."

    " In 1960, Freightliner introduced with a cab that tilted 90 degrees in only 38 seconds. Ken Self played a major role in that design and went on to become president, and then chairman, of Freightliner."

    "After his retirement in the mid 1960s, Self built this 2/3 scale model of the Freightliner Model 8164T 81-inch cab, 3-axle, 2-axle drive. Some parts were fabricated at local machine shops but, for the most part, the scale model was built in Self's Lake Oswego, Oregon 2-car garage. This fully road-worthy model has a 108-inch wheelbase and is powered by a Cummins 6BT turbocharged diesel engine with a 5-speed Fuller transmission. It was donated to the museum by Ken Self."

    the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum

    Not good enough? ..are you kidding?
    Keeping up with the amount of content you post at times can be exhaustive.
    And No, I refuse to use the 'Search' box.....so don't even go there.

    Keep on Truckin Jesse.

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    1. wow, great research! Thanks! You're the best!

      keeping up is what? Lol, I will switch with you, I'll be exhausted with following along and occasional comments, and YOU blog for a while! Rofl!

      I don't understand the sentence "Not good enough? ..are you kidding?" I can't figure if that's a reference to something I forgot I said, or what? I must have mentioned that my memory is getting worse.

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    2. Me blog?....oh God no, you don't want that.
      It would be all 6 cylinder this and four door that...

      "where's the love? Was my effort wasted? Not good enough?"....9:41 AM
      Geeze, I thought my memory was bad, yours is clearly up to shit.

      I will ease your burden just a little with this token gesture...
      https://www.carsguide.com.au/oversteer/this-69-dodge-charger-rt-is-a-diamond-in-the-rough-66967

      Keep em coming Jesse, we've not had enough yet.

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