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I have a couple of pictures of a Sox & Martin '68 Barracuda and a '68 with a '69 nose where it had Pro 1262 on the wind screen, so it must have been at least as late as 1970, I also have some pictures of the B/Gas '69. Sox & Martin ran several cars in different classes with different drivers both in NHRA and AHRA and they had the Pro Stock '70 'Cuda at that time. I believe the sanctioning bodies allowed the racers to upgrade the body style back in the day and I have also seen Hemi Barracudas with the '69 nose, but that's not allowed today as the only classified A-bodies with Hemi's are the '68 Barracuda and Dart as it's the only year they were available from the factory, no '69's were ever made with Hemi's.

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I like it a lot!

Nice work Scott.

Found it, Thanks.

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Well he had to, he didn't have time to do a completely new body so JFR did some modifications to the Mustang body mold to more resemble a Camaro. For the record, it took a year or more in the wind tunnel for DSR and Mopar to develop the 2015 Charger body they use today...Force had two months to do his...so NHRA gave him a break and allowed him to do what he did, but for next year I think JFR will have new Camaro bodys. I like the Funny Car class but I still think the bodies they have today are ugly as...well you know what. They were a lot better before the Firebird and Camaro bodies came 1995 (except for the Bernstein "Batmobile" Buick from 1987), the Firebird/Camaro body developed more downforce than the others due to the fact that the roof didn't go all the way out to the body sides, so to equalize the competition NHRA allowed the others to narrow the roof on their bodies to the same dimensions as the Firebird/Camaro, later they were allowed to widen the front of the body to get even more downforce and voila, we have the butt ugly door stop wedge with the small bubble on top. As long as Cruz is racing I think you are safe.

I don't think NHRA were that picky back then, but today the only year classified are 1968, that's why you don't see any other model year in the SS/H and SS/AH class. I have the Killer Cuda issue from 1978 and it has 68 side markers on it but the 69 front, hood and rear panel, and yes there are resin conversion kits to do a 68 but I prefer styrene. Revell did the 68 Hemi Dart and it would be nice to be able to do a 68 Hemi Barracuda to go with it.

At least the 70's version of the 69 Barracuda had an A-990 Super Stock Hemi, I believe it came when MPC did the Super Stock cars. But the only NHRA "legal" year for an A-body Barracuda (and Dart) with a Hemi in Super Stock is 1968 as it's the only year the 426 Hemi is classified in the A-body. That's why I would like them to backdate the 69 to a 68.

Yes more factory involvement from the big three and the Pro Stock cars have to look more like the cars they are supposed to be, I mean, if you put a stock 2015 Camaro beside the Pro Stock version the body shapes are so different that it's two different cars. Same for the Funny Cars, a wedge with a small bubble on top and if you see the body without decals you don't know what they are supposed to be.

The Plexiglass Skyliner Roof Section comes with the kit, a not so common option in warm sunny states and many were exported to colder parts of the World, we have quite a lot of 55 and 56 Ford Crown Victoria Skyliners over here in Sweden.

Well the NASCAR cars had 8 3/4" axles and 4-speeds, it was lighter and easier to change gearing in than the Dana 60...and they didn't need the strength. But the Dana 60 became available in street cars 1966 so it would be correct with a Dana.

The main thing is to stop when it looks good, it's easy to go too far with the detailing and it'll only look cluttered.

I would like it if Round 2 backdated the 69 Barracuda to a 68 instead of reissue the 69 another time, it has been out a gazillion times the last 30 years.

Eehh...that's a 55. But yes, the long trim on top of the rear fenders are needed for the right look.

Well I would be happy to be able to see any NHRA racing on TV...but nothing is available for us over here, ESPN America broadcasted the races the day after it was run but they stopped airing that channel over Europe a couple of years ago...so live streaming on the internet is the only way for me to be able to see anything nowadays. But I miss the good old days with Dave McClelland and Steve Evans...best drag racing announsers ever in my opinion...I have all the 1986-1999 "Year In Review" VHS tape Diamond P made (been a big John Force fan ever since) and the "Year In Review" and other DVD's NHRA later made and the ones narrated by McClelland/Evans are the best. For many many years it was the only way for us over here to be able to see moving pictures of NHRA drag racing.

Well it's not only the rear bumper and the Roush Ford FE engine that does the Foose truck, the whole truck is modified everywhere, especially the cab, hood, front and rear fenders, the wheelbase is also different from stock and if you do your homework you can go on for a long time listing modifications done to the real truck that has to be done. So it's not just to take a regular 56 Ford F100 and change a few simple things and you have a Foose truck...no it takes a lot of work if it's going to be right. Hopefully Foose will not sell out too easily and have a say on how the final truck kit is going to look...after all, it's his name and his reputation at stake.

Yes as Bill says it will fit, both are B-bodies, both are Hemis and both are the same scale.

If I'm going to be realistic I'm still not convinced that Revell will do an all new tooling kit for the Foose truck as the tooling costs are huge and it's a one off custom build with far from stock proportions, severely modified chassis and drive line, and they haven't done that with the earlier Foose kits, they just threw in some new parts to old existing kits and added new decals and were done with it. The other kits listed here has huge possibilities to do future kits from but if Revell did the Foose truck right they would be stuck with it as it's far too much modified to go as a stock bodied truck and they have to retool a lot to do another kit from it that doesn't look like the Foose truck. But as I said, if they do a correct Foose truck I'll buy it as I think it's very cool.

Nice additions.that lifts the appearence of a allredy very nice model.

Italeri took a shortcut (as they often do) and added a few new parts to the Cummins NTC engine they already had and wants us to belive it's a N14, so it's unfortunately neither a correct NTC nor a N14. The N14 is based on the old NTC 855 cui engine (855 cui equals 14 litres) but the N14 has more squared valve covers wich were available in both steel and cast aluminum depending on version, and the valve covers in the kits looks like the older NTC, most N14's also have an electronically controlled diesel pump.

I believe so, but some truck manufacturers had the engines painted custom colors, engines in Peterbilt's and Kenworth's were mostly white for example. I have not seen any.

Some of Boyd's ex employees were involved in the Foose F100 build, for example Charlie Hutton who painted the truck (who at the time had left Boyd and were employed by Foose), and for the record, Chip Foose himself were employed by Boyd at one time...but that is not that important. I'm more interested to see how Revell are going to do this model, are they going to tool up a completely new 56 Ford F100 or are they going to take a shortcut and just do some new parts and modify the old 56 F100 they allready have. If they take the shortcut I'll pass, I allready have a few of the old F100's and they changed so much on the real truck so it would not be a correct Foose truck, but if they tool up a new truck I'll get one...the question is if Revell will spend the money to do that as the Foose truck is a one off truck and the tooling can't easily be used for anything else without doing severe modifications as the body is far off a stock body,

All digital calipers, conversion programs and app's for your smartphone works with decimals, not fractions, so if you want to convert a measurement with fractions you have to convert the fraction to decimals first and then put it in the program. More precise measurements for for example internal engine parts are also in decimals 0.1, 0.01 and 0.001 as fraction measurements are too imprecise, and 0.1" equals 2.54 mm, 0.01" equals 0,254 mm and 0.001" equals 0.0254 mm.

The flag for the roof and 01 decals for the doors are in the first version of the Revell 69 Charger, the Pro Modeler issue, no General Lee scrips tho'.