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Freightliner FLT 86 64 T Class: Trucks, Trailer truck (tractor) — Model origin: 
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◊ 2022-12-02 15:07 |
1984-87. |
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◊ 2023-04-01 15:09 |
https://twitter.com/SCSsoftware/status/1642148310226984960 |
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◊ 2023-04-13 16:20 |
1987 Freightliner FLA 86 64 T Link to "cdllife.com" |
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◊ 2023-07-14 14:22 |
"Wait...Optimus, why are you going over that bridge? No! Leave the biker in the canal alone!" |
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◊ 2023-07-14 18:18 |
used as a daily work truck... can you imagine the faces of all the kids who would have seen it in the 80's if it had originally that paint scheme ? ..  -- Last edit: 2023-07-14 18:25:30 |
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◊ 2023-07-14 19:00 |
It's just like old times. |
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◊ 2023-07-18 09:20 |
I just noticed... this is a completely different truck from the one used in Bumblebee. It's not a Freightliner FLA 86 64 T, but instead a Freightliner FLT 86 64 T. I've mentioned before on other truck pages such as the one from Terminator 2, but the difference between the two models is the air intake style. Compare the "new" truck to the old one. ![[Image: optimusnew.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/30498/optimusnew.jpg) ![[Image: optimusold.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/30498/optimusold.jpg) Other differences such as paint and such don't exactly match up either, but it has the same BBC length as the old one. -> Freightliner FLT 86 64 T This truck's year has yet to mentioned anywhere, so I think it should be taken off aswell. |
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◊ 2023-07-18 21:16 |
I'm glad someone else noticed that. I thought it was an FLA myself until I did some research and found out about the later FLTs. It's even been officially labeled as a 1987 Freightliner FLA, probably because they just looked at the listing on the Bumblebee page for Optimus Prime. The four rows of slits on the bottom right of the truck's front also seem to be a feature of the FLT, but then again there are a few examples of trucks with the FLA air intake grille and the four rows of slits. Funnily enough, they actually did use one FLA (on the left) that they then put an FLT-style grille on: ![[Image: 354556128_722371766356623_2937023994058375108_n.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/32475/354556128_722371766356623_2937023994058375108_n.jpg) But, I think that was only used in the stunt that got cut from the movie where Optimus Prime rams Scourge through a wall, as you can see that the other slits are just decals or something in this picture of the aftermath: ![[Image: transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-5.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/32475/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-5.jpg) I've been meaning the clean up the FLA and FLT listings for a while now, as there are a few mislabeled ones with the wrong cab lengths, like the Terminator 2 one you corrected. -- Last edit: 2023-07-18 23:17:33 |
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◊ 2023-07-25 06:01 |
1987 FLA model |
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◊ 2024-01-15 18:17 |
Flt models were 1976-1986 Flt Flt 6442 Flt 9664 Flt 7564 Fla models were 1987-1997 FLA FLA 104 FLA 104 64 FLA 75 FLA 7542T FLA 8662 FLA 8664T FLA 9664 FLA 9664T So flt 86 64t doesn't exist |
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◊ 2024-01-19 07:55 |
Posting this here for future reference to prevent comments like the one below, a guide for Freightliner Cabover models anyone on IMCDB can use: Complete guide for later Freightliner Cabover Models: 1977-1983 | The Freightliner FLT was the only cabover model being produced. (64/42 stands for tandem/single axle config. 63/86/96/104 is sleeper/BBC length. If the truck is a tractor unit and not a straight truck, the T is added to the end.) Freightliner FLT 6342(T) Freightliner FLT 6364(T) Freightliner FLT 8642(T) Freightliner FLT 8664(T) Freightliner FLT 9642(T) Freightliner FLT 9664(T) Freightliner FLT 10442(T) Freightliner FLT 10464(T) 1984-1988 | The Freightliner FLT was redesigned, and the FLA model was introduced. The difference between the two is the air intake design. The FLT kept all of the same BBC lengths and drives as options even with the redesign. The FLA however, only had the 63-Inch and 86-Inch cabs available. (Note: In 1987, a prototype of the FLA with a 96-Inch cab was produced but never entered full production.) Models available between 1984-1988 are now: Freightliner FLT 63 42(T) Freightliner FLT 63 64(T) Freightliner FLT 86 42(T) Freightliner FLT 86 64(T) Freightliner FLT 96 42(T) Freightliner FLT 96 64(T) Freightliner FLT 104 42(T) Freightliner FLT 104 64(T) Freightliner FLA 63 42 (T) Freightliner FLA 63 64 (T) Freightliner FLA 86 42 (T) Freightliner FLA 86 64 (T) 1989-1993 | The Freightliner FLT is discontinued altogether, and the FLA is heavily redesigned. 96-Inch cabs have also been discontinued, but 104-Inch cabs are now available on the FLA. The drive config is dropped from the models names now, and only the sleeper length is counted. Set back axle trucks are also introduced but those won’t be listed here. Models available between 1989-1993 are now: Freightliner FLA 063 Freightliner FLA 086 Freightliner FLA 104 The set back axle versions of the trucks were continued onward another year before being replaced by the FLB in 1994, with itself being produced until 1999. -- Last edit: 2024-01-19 07:59:00 |
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◊ 2024-06-26 10:48 |
The ROTB truck appears to be a 1984–85 FLT-8664-T Tiltline COE 71-Series-Stretched Dual-drive Tractor-Semitrailer Combination Vehicle. In 1984 March, the Freightliner text dropped from the air intake precleaner grille into an enlarged chrome border at the top of the radiator grille. The intake grille then sported 2 horizontal bars and 3 wide voids, as seen here, behind the Autobot logo. The old optional oval quad headlight housings were replaced with rectangular ones. 8 horizontal vents below the right headlight housing continued on from the early '70s WFTs. However, as was noted above, the crashed movie tractor cab appears to have had a sticker or decal applied below the right headlight housing. What was this decal hiding? The 1986 FLT-8664-T or identical-looking 1987–88 FLA-8664-T had dual vents below the right headlight, instead of the old 8. Perhaps the ROTB film crew was trying to give the impression with the decal that their later-model OP truck was a 1984 model FLT, to tie back to the canonical year in which the Transformers G1 franchise started? That later body style also featured a revised intake grille, with 4 bars and 3 narrower voids. (See the Bumblebee film tractor.) At any rate, G1 toy Optimus Prime was based most closely on a 1976–79 FLT-9664-T, and not on any of the 1984–88 8664 body styles. The toy had oval quad headlamps, which appeared on real FLT trucks through 1984 February. The rectangular headlights were too late for G1 OP, whose toy design was locked in by Takara back in 1982 for 1983 sales in Nihon/Japan as a Diaclone figure predating the 1984 Hasbro Transformers re-branding. Also, G1 toy OP had vertically-oriented door latches in the bottom rear corners of his doors, which ran through 1979. In 1980, the door latches were flipped horizontally. G1 OP's door latches weren't horizontal, so he wasn't based on any '80s body style. The toy also had the dual cargo boxes and dual grab bars on each side that were indicative of the 96 in BBC model. So the common wisdom that G1 Prime was an FLT-8664-T is objectively wrong. G1 cartoon OP's truck design was all over the place, with an intake box that disappeared half the time and dual (not quad) square headlights (which never were used on any Freightliner cabovers). Like most of the cartoon's vehicle designs, it should only be taken as a simplified version of the toy design, and not as authoritative in itself. -- Last edit: 2024-07-27 06:07:23 |
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