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hi all just to take the opportunity to ask people who were enough lucky to visit this incredible show: i saw photos of this mining truck posted in other treads...maybe someone here talked with the displayer, is this truck planed for sale? i am looking for it since 2005, when i saw one displayed in a modelshow in europe! very rare model.... some people here in germany said me that a chinese company was going to produce this haul truck made by Peerless/Marion in late 70's... any info would be really appreciated! 
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Hello a Peerless/Marion 1:50 model was made by swiss modeler Urs Peyer, as far as I know. I didn't attend the IMCATS ( from Italy quite a journey! ) but I think we're talking about the very same model. Some pictures of it appear on the book "Machinery in Miniature" with the name of the builder. I don't know if it's a single model or a few were made, but since german collector Rainer W. Markgraf owns one probably a very small batch was made. We made a topic on it on the italian construction machinery forum, http://giomaffy.mastertopforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=557Not much, but I hope this helps! Mattia
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The model is made by/for Bruce Rolston from England. He commisssioned a limited series of them but I can not remember how many he told me. This was a few years ago now. It is a very nice model and quite individual compared to normal dump truck models.
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so nobody is interested in this truck? am i the only one who is looking for it?? i could'ntbelieve it...
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The V-con truck is a verry interesting machine. The model shown at the IMCATS is made in a verry small production run. I saw the model a several times on the Modelshow Europ. The price of the model was € 2500,-
A few years ago I was seriously thinking to buy the model. But now when I see the new/latest models like the Bucyrus 495, the Liebherr 994/9350, O&K RH 340, The manitowoc cranes (esesialy the 4100) etc. I wil skip this one because For the € 2500 I can buy a lot of other models wich will interest me.
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This model has been at the Top of my wish list for years. The first time in Bemmel I saw the model with my own eyes. Incredible. I'd love to have bought it, but the price was completely out of my budget. Perhaps some company will make a decently priced model out of it.
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i was said here in europe that a chinese company may produce it in 1/50 ? anybody could confirm?
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I was always hopeing someone would produce a model of the V Con V220,   Regards Joe.
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The first photo is the V250 and I would also like to see a model of it produced. I don't like the V220 as well visually. With only a single V250 and two (rumored) V220s produced, I have my doubts. If I'm not mistaken, EMD wanted to produce a model some years ago, but could not find enough information.
On a side note; operating an articulated loader with the cab pivoting with the front end of the machine isn't really great when reversing!
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Sorry to contradict you my friend,  But the V250 was nothing like the V220,  BUT you are correct with the reversing bit. Regards Joe.
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catkom3 wrote:Sorry to contradict you my friend, But the V250 was nothing like the V220, Regards Joe. Standing corrected. Thank you sir! For whatever reason the B&W photo has been identified as a V250, but seeing your photo of the real V250 makes me want a scale model of that machine even more. I know it's smaller than the V220, but... And it would seem that there were actually two V220s as the two photos you posted are of different machines. The blue and white unit worked at the same operation as Big Muskie for Central Ohio Coal. Do you have any idea where the other V220 and V250 were working?
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Sorry,no,you probably know as much as I do,very little info out there regarding any of these Peerless machine,the only things I could find were V 250 info and V 22-0 infoRegards Joe.
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