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Truck of the Day: August 24, 2009; Matchbox Real Working Rigs Western Star 6900 XD
Topic Started: Aug 23 2009, 08:56 PM (712 Views)
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The truck for today is Matchbox Western Star 6900 XD.

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Western Star Trucks is a Redford Township, Michigan, United States based manufacturer of Class 8 commercial trucks.

In 1970 White Trucks started the Western Star division as White Western Star from about 1970 until 1979. By 1980, White was insolvent, despite importing Semon E. "Bunkie" Knudsen, son of General Motors legend Semon Knudsen, and President of Ford Motor Company in 1969–70. Volvo AB acquired the U.S. assets of the company, while two energy-related companies based in Calgary, Alberta, Bow Valley Resource Services and Nova, an Alberta Corp., purchased the Canadian assets, including the Kelowna, British Columbia, plant, and the Western Star nameplate and product range. In 1990 Western Star Trucks was purchased by Australian businessman Terry Peabody, who turned around the company's fortunes over the next 10 years, and in 2000 the company was purchased by the Daimler AG truck division, Freightliner.


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Western Star produces a range of heavy duty trucks suited to a variety of purposes including semi-trailer, multiple trailer, heavy haulage and tipper-and-dog applications. Both aerodynamic and traditionally styled conventional models are available with the spacious Constellation Series cab, introduced in 1996. This replaced the much smaller Heritage series cab that had been used for several decades in White trucks. A range of sleepers, trim levels, gearboxes, and engines from Cummins, Caterpillar, Detroit Diesel and Mercedes allow buyers to customize their truck to suit their needs.

The 6900 is an "Extreme Duty" model. It is available in either a single, or tandem front axle configuration.


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That's an impressive model. When was it released?
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craftymore
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robotCLASH
Aug 23 2009, 09:33 PM
That's an impressive model. When was it released?
This year in the Working Rigs line. It's not true 1/64 scale, somewhere in the range of 1/87 I'd guess or a bit larger.
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STUTZ
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I also bought this model.

I like the MB rollback better (more worthy in a diorama), but I also like this one.

Nice pics Zach!
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Our first RWR as a COTD! :thumbup: Good pick, and I too love this casting!
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