And now for something completely different

Posted by: @mg-harv

@ed-davis +2 I like that one and the photo of the real one makes it very special.

BTW, anyone watch The World's Most Dangerous Roads? The Canadian episodes on the Coquihalla highway show a lot of these beasts in action.

Great show! A very difficult and dangerous job. If anyone finds themselves in Chattanooga, Tennessee, drop by the International Towing Museum https://towingmuseum.com/

Chattanooga is the birthplace of the tow truck, and also home to Miller Industries, the world's largest towing and recovery equipment manufacturer. Thus far I have not been able to convince my wife that spending a week in Chattanooga absorbing the rich history of the tow truck is a viable vacation plan. Girls are weird.

@daveg 

I did not know about the tow truck museum in Chattanooga. One learns something every day.

@ed-davis I've posted pics from there before. Here's some (they have a huge toy tow truck collection too). A good time to come would be during the Chattanooga Motorsports Festival in October.

@mg-harv

Looks like another reason to visit Tennessee.

...the Cadillac Holmes...in 1:43...

Here are two White wreckers from NEO, but only one is white. The other is not a white White. The white White is 1:43, the White that is not white is 1:64.

Posted by: @daveg

.................Girls are weird.

Of course, that's a given ....  

Tow trucks are hard-working, interesting vehicles. All those examples look great !

Near 1/43 scale (actually 1/38) I have a very nice 1953 Chevrolet tow-truck from Kinsmart and I did have a 1956 Ford tow-truck in 1/18 scale from Yat Ming. I had almost gotten an excellent 1/16 scale International 1948 tow-truck from Highway 61 that looked exceptionally nice but they were not so easy to find.