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Ale8-1 Delivery Trucks

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Updated March 24, 2001 The Ale8-1 delivery trucks can be modeled using the Con-Cor/Herpa pop trucks without much modification. They currently are painted in two schemes, Yellow and Orange. There is some diversity in the type of graphics applied, especially on the Orange scheme.

Truck Numbers and Paint Schemes

Truck Number	Truck Make and Bed Size	Paint Scheme
40	International, 4 Compartment bed	Orange, one bottle and logo on rear only
43	International, 4 Compartment bed	Orange, no graphics on bed, logo on rear, bottle and logo on door
45	International, 4 Compartment bed	Orange, one tall bottle on bay #2, one bottle and logo on rear
51	International, 5 Compartment bed	Yellow, three bottles
105	Chevy Cargo Van	yellow, logo on door
108	International w/Box Bed	Yellow, see note *
109	International, 5 Compartment bed	Yellow, two bottles

*Note - This truck is very similar to the box-bed truck made by Boley. It was painted yellow and had the rear decal on all four sides of the box, with the same sticker on the door as the delivery trucks.

I drove by the Ale-8-1 factory and saw these trucks evidently parked for good... They all were older model Chevy C70 trucks with 5 compartment beds.

Truck Number	Truck Make and Bed Size	Paint Scheme
29	Chevy, 5 Compartment bed	Orange, fat bottle and 16oz on bays 1&3
31	Chevy, 5 Compartment bed	Orange, fat bottle & can on front of bed**
35	Chevy, 5 Compartment bed	Yellow with odd (new) 16 ounce bottles***
37	Chevy, 5 Compartment bed	Orange, fat bottle and 16oz on bays 1&3

** Note - Truck 31 had all the compartment doors rolled up, so the graphics on the sides of the bed were not visible.
*** Note -Truck 35 had "ALE-(3 bottles)-8-1" on the front of the bed and 6 `6-ounce bottles in a fan pattern on the rear. Sides were not visible.

Orange - PollyScale Reefer Orange 414119 with White (PollyScale Reefer White) hood top, cab roof, and bed roof
Yellow - Not a Railroad color, try a model car paint..... I'm still working on this shade, just give me time.......

Description of Graphics

(Revised)

It appears that there are generally two types of graphics: Older bottles and hand-painted logos (on older orange trucks); and the Newer bottles and printed logos (on newer orange trucks and all yellow trucks). The amount, location, and style of these graphics vary wildly from truck to truck, with evidently no set style for the fleet. I have yet to see two trucks, no matter the paint scheme, with the same graphics in the same locations.

For example: Yellow truck (109) had two bottles on the rear (each side of the sign) and two bottles on the sides. Yellow truck 51 had three bottles on the sides, located on the odd number compartment doors, plus two bottles on the rear (like 109). Orange trucks 40, 43 and 45 must have been some of the last orange trucks, because they have the newer graphics, but not many on them at all. 43 has the small logo and bottle on the door, but only the logo on the rear of the bed. 45 has only one bottle on the side and rear, each place it was to the left when facing that portion of the truck. When I saw the parked orange trucks (29, 31 and 37), I noticed that all these older trucks appeared to have hand-painted lettering and some graphics ! These orange trucks had different graphics than the yellow or even newer orange trucks, specifically they had graphics depicting the aluminum cans and the "fat bottles" (12 ounce with a foam/paper label), and even the 16 ounce bottle was a different graphic than the newer (current) graphic.

Oddballs

Even with the oddities of the amount and location of the graphics on these trucks, there are even weirder things on the roster.... Take yellow truck 108 for example: it's a box-bed delivery truck, presumably to deliver the machines to stores and mass quantities of the Ale to distributors.... it has the normal graphics as the other delivery trucks, but placed differently. Another example is this little trailer.... They have 3 or 4 of these trailers, and (surprise) all are painted differently !!!