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  1. The older Kenworth 4 bag suspension looks like this and there was a slightly different version a bit later, this is not available anywhere either in a kit or on the aftermarket as far as I know. This was replaced with the Air Glide 100 8 bag suspension in 1978. Here is the Kenworth torsion bar suspension, The AMT Kenworth W925/K123 had this when the kits first came out but it was later changed. This suspension can be found on the aftermarket. Here is a 4 spring suspension, this is a Reyco but Kenworth had one called Glide Ride and it looks very similar, the AMT White Freightliner Dual Drive kit has this type. These were medium weight suspensions. For more heavy weight duty they had these. Hendrickson Walking Beam and there were a couple of variants of them, the AMT Kenworth W925/K123 has a version and this suspension are in a few more AMT kits. And Kenworth 6 Rod, Rockwell has a similar and I don't know if it's the same, the AMT Autocar Dump Truck kit has the Rockwell style suspension and it's also avilable on the aftermarket.
  2. Yes the Revell 1:25 kits all the way, they are the best. You also have a few variations of this kit, the Z/28, the ZL1 427, the Yenko 427, the Baldwin Motion 427/L72, the SS 396 and a Convertible. These are based on the same tooling and the only engine difference is the small block 302 in the Z/28, the others have a big block, there are a RS grille in some of them and some includes both grilles.
  3. Well it's not easy to keep track of what was current for the trucks all the time, Kenworth had an air ride before the AG100 8 bag suspension wich as I said came 1978, and it was a 4 bag suspension from the late 60's-early 70's, they also had torsion bars, heavy duty 6 rod and a few more suspension options. You could also get Neway and some other non KW factory suspensions.
  4. The 390/427 and 352 are a different engine family and they are FE, the 429 BOSS engine is right 385 engine family but it has the Hemi heads, the engine he's after is a wedge head 429-460 wich looks totally different from the BOSS. The one in the Revell Torino is very good and I know I have seen one in 3D print or resin but I don't remember where right now.
  5. The IH V-800 is a boat anchor anyway so you might as well.😁 But that engine is in the 4300 kit so International must have had it on the option list as I don't think ERTL who originally developed this kit would have put in that engine otherwise, the V-800 are also in the other ERTL international truck kits except for the F 4270 wich had a Cummins V903 and the CO4070A and CO4070B wich had 8V-71. Good work on this one.
  6. Nice. One thing tho'...maybe for the purists. The movie was from 1978 and shot earlier in 1977, and the Bruhn Kenworth looks to be older than that, so I don't think it could have had the KW Air Glide 100 8 bag air ride suspension as that suspension was introduced in 1978. As it's a gravel truck it could have had a spring suspension of some sort, Reyco 4 spring or maybe walking beam. But of course, it's your model and you do as you please.
  7. Same here...nothing. This is starting to get ridiculous. Before the Pandemic and the unfortunate hiatus of the magazine for a while it worked perfectly and I got every issue, but now it's very iffy to say the least and when you get 2 out of 6 issues something is very wrong. Has the mail services all over the World become so bad since then that they doesn't bother to deliver the mail to the recipient...because there must be some serious problems somewhere in the mail chain wherever they are...because this problems with getting the magazines has been for a couple of years now.
  8. The thing is that the original owner, that will say the photographer, owns the rights to the pictures he or she has taken...that's it...but the problem is to prove that they are yours without a watermark or something like that. And one can download all pictures on internet, either as save as or screen shots so it's impossible to stop. So this is most likely a thing we have to live with if we share pictures on internet.
  9. The old Revell AG truck tires seems to have problems with dry rot, at least mine did, and in later kits Revell AG replaced the tires and they are different.
  10. This Volvo F12 looks to be a Revell AG kit, they had 3 axle dual drive with spoke wheels and it was 1:25th scale. The Italeri 1:24 scale Volvo F12 was 2 axle single drive both for the flat top and Globetrotter.
  11. Cool. This was the second Revell AG truck kit I built back in 1984 at 20, I still have it on my shelf but the tires has a severe dry rot problem. The first Revell AG truck kit I built was the Peterbilt 359 Black Magic kit from 1982, same there, I still have it but dry rot on the tires here too, so it seems to have been a problem back then, they have changed tires on later versions of the truck kits. Well it's not much of an Australian truck, but they put in a "Roo Bar" and a "stone guard" in the kit.
  12. It's most likely a magneto. The early Mallory Super Mag looked like that and Sox & Martin among others used them back in the day.
  13. Most of the aftermarket tires for model trucks are newer tubeless style radials, not much available in bias ply tube style tires. I find that a bit strange when the majority of the US truck kits available to us are old, like most of the AMT trucks are from the late 60's early 70's. So I'm a bit curious on why, I mean it would be nice to be able to build period correct truck models with accessories like different engine, wheels, tire options and such, but there are not much available from the time frame the kits are from as most of the stuff on the aftermarket are more modern.
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