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Truck of the Day: August 6, 2015; Road Champs '99 Volvo FH12 Cement Truck
Topic Started: Aug 6 2015, 03:13 AM (724 Views)
Dean-o-mite
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Today's car truck of the day is Road Champs' 1999 Volvo FH12 Cement Truck.


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The Volvo FH is a heavy truck range produced by Swedish Volvo Truck Corporation. Introduced in late 1993 as FH12 and FH16, production still continues with the now the second generation of FH range model lineup. FH stands for Forward control High entry where numbers denominate engine capacity in liters. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide. There were two models, FH12 and FH16 which shared common cabs and chassis and the FH12 immediately won "Truck of the year" award in 1994. The 16 liter engine, gearboxes and the driveline were carried over from previous generation albeit with many improvements and the host of additional features including all new Volvo engine management and its diagnostics for the D12A engine.



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This Road Champs cement truck has 1999 on the chassis, which is what I used to arbitrarily select a model year for it. The white portion of the cab is metal, while all of the remaining parts are plastic. The cement barrel rotates and the pour spout at the rear rotates side to side, so there is some decent play value with this one. For size comparison, there is a picture below with a JL GMC Typhoon, which shows the Volvo to probably be about 1/87 scale.


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The cab produced at Umea from hot dip galvanized, high tensile steel allowed for greater strength at thinner panels and box sections while reducing overall weight. The new FH cab was a logical progression from, for its days spacious but boxy F series cab to more aerodynamically efficient, with much improved ergonomics and much better seating unit while reducing overall weight of the cab by almost 30%. The cabin was extensively tested in a wind tunnel to confirm shape aerodynamics properties to reduce air-drag thus improving fuel efficiency. The cab featured more sharply raked windscreen while wedge shaped sides rounded into front panel at much wider radius corners and the rear vision mirrors were also streamlined. The cabin was subject to the toughest cab impact test where procedure involved placing a 15 ton static weight on the roof and one ton pendulum striking at the cab rear wall and at the windscreen pillars, at the end of which the cab doors must be able to be opened. In 1995 Volvo FH series became first heavy duty truck to be fitted with a SRS airbag to further improve passive safety.



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juantoo3
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Not bad looking for a cement mixer!
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pjedsel
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:toy: I don't recall ever seeing that one on the pegs back in the late '90's/early 2000 but then again...maybe I had enough cement mixers in my collection and just overlooked it. :D Nice looking toy of a seen everyday construction type model.
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
A good lookin'mixer that needs a wheel change to something more industrial, and ...bingo!!
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I really like these Road Champs castings. I have the Winnebago, Pepsi truck, roll back and they fit nicely with some of the smaller diecast. I have the Road Champs school bus as well though I've had it torn apart for years inside a baggy hoping one day to restore it.
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