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Yes nearly...you said the engines were painted many colors by the factory, but two different factory engine colors under the four years they were available isn't that many...so I wanted to clarify it some.

Yes the AMT kit is not possible to do without retooling as it share most of the parts with the W925, and that was altered to the T600 so the cab and related parts are gone.

Well Ford only had two engine colors from 1959 to way into the 1970's, so if the engines were painted at the factory it had to be either Black or Blue depending on what year it was from. Ford painted all engines Black between 1959 up to and including the 1965 model year, and the SOHC engine was developed in 64 so the engine block and oil pan had to be Black 64 and 65, and from 1966 and forward all Ford engines were Ford Engine Blue. But none of these engines were sold to the regular public as these were for racing only so the owners could for sure have painted them wich ever color they liked...so they could even have been unpainted raw cast iron from the factory.

I don't say the 427 cylinders are weak, they are just not as strong as in many other engines, the for this engine block large bore made the casting of these blocks very demanding and expensive and that's why Ford decided to do the 428 with 4.13 bore instead of 4.23 and use 3.98 stroke instead of 3.78...cheaper and easier to manufacture. Pre 66 the engine blocks and oil pans were black and 66 and forward blue, mostly everything else on the SOHC was aluminum or magnesium...but none of these were ever sold to the public as a complete engine...you could buy the parts for one over the counter if you had the right connections tho'.

I like it, But if Italeri would do one I hope they start all over and do a correct kit and not take shortcuts and update an old kit with new cab and hood parts as they mostly have done so far...if they do a modified old kit I will pass on it as they usually are wrong almost everywhere. And if anyone does this truck I hope they do regular dual mount drive wheels as I don't like the look of super singles...I think it looks like something's missing.

Yes the headlights still needs some work to look right.

Great build. I like the special "Hurst" Ramber/AMC cars, both the Hurst Rambler S/C and this one.

The SOHC from 1964 pulled 616 hp - 515 ft/lbs with one 4 bbl carb on the dyno as I said, and 657 hp - 575 ft/lbs with dual 4 bbl carbs back then wich wasn't bad at all for an engine developed in 90 days and 425 cubic inches...yes the Ford 427 is really "only" 425 cui. The aftermarket FE blocks today are a lot sturdier than the original blocks and can have over size bore and longer stroke wich you can't do much of in an original 427, the original 427's was a bit fragile and didn't like much "over" stroke even tho' it had cross bolted mains, high cylinder pressures wasn't that good for the original block either as the cylinders were quite thin (a friend of mine says it has cylinders strong as card board tubes...and he's not far from right ), the original stroke was 3.78" (same as 390) and the cylinder bore was 4.23" (the 390 has 4.05" and the 428 has 4.13") and you could only over bore it maximum .030" if a sonic check allows it, if the block needs an over bore and not pass the sonic your expensive rare 427 block is only good for a boat ancor. The original SOHC engine blocks had an oil drain back holes from the heads in the lower back on each side wich is not present on regular FE's and the aftermarket blocks has provisions for those holes and can be drilled if you want to do a SOHC...the oil drain back from the heads can also be done with outside oil lines back to the oil pan if the drain back holes aren't there.

The 427 SOHC produced 616 hp with a single 4bbl carburator and this could for sure have been just that pull.

I liked the movie and will for sure follow this build.

I don't have many grails in truck models as I have found most of what I want. But a small list is: Revell AG Kenworth K100 VIT both flat roof and Aerodyne, Revell AG Beall Tanker AMT Kenworth Challenge Mixer. AMT White Freightliner Single Drive AMT GMC Astro 95 with the optional turbine engine Ertl Great Dane Reefer Trailer. Ertl John Deere, Massey Ferguson and International farm tractors with wagons and plows. Even though I have two each of the Tyrone Malone trucks I would for sure like to see them in production again. I wouldn't bother with the Ertl Convoy Mack truck, I got one back in 1978 and it's not worth getting and definately not worth the money they go for on ebay, this kit is all wrong as it's a construction truck DM 600 with offset cab and the movie truck was a on highway RS700L, the only usable parts in the Ertl kit are the roof wind deflector, the front bumper/bar and the duck hood ornament the rest can't be used if you want to do a correct movie truck...and as it's totally wrong I don't thing it ever will be re-issued. It's a lot better and more worth the money to get a resin Convoy truck kit from AITM.

Do a search, this subject has came up several times before...but here is a start http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=85768&hl= For the sizes of wires and hoses I eyeball what looks to be fairly close and convincing. But for a 65 Pro Stock Truck...well anything like that will not be allowed as James said, the Pro Stock Truck class wasn't invented 1965 as it came 1998 and lasted through the 2001 season and was for compact pickup trucks like the Chevy S10 with maximum 358 cui engines, and pickups are not allowed in Pro Stock...Pro Stock car on the other hand has 500 cui engines in NHRA and larger engines are allowed in IHRA, but a Pro Stock body style can't be any older than 5 years either...so it falls on every aspect. But you can for sure build your 65 pickup truck like a Pro Stocker and it can compete in other classes like Pro Modified, Competition Eliminator, Super Gas and lots of other classes.

As Mitch and Norman says, the larger standing tank is for fuel and the other small tank is for water, the lines goes in to a aluminum block at the front of the engine where the original water pump would sit. I don't think you need a pump as water can self circulate as hot fluid rises and cold fluid drops...not good but good enough.

That's the 255 Indy engine from 1965, it's loosely based on the 221-260-289-302 cui 90-Degree engine family, not the FE. This engine can be found in the old IMC and Testors Ford GT 40 kits.

If decals were available for this pattern I would buy sets to do each of the model kits I have wich is 6 or 7 so far.

Has anyone thought about doing a decal for the back seat pattern in the 1964 Ford Thunderbolt? All 100 Thunderbolts built has the same tan interior with light weight Bostrom bucket seats and a vinyl and fabric back seat, and I have waited for a decal maker to do this as it's hard to do with paint and I haven't found anything usable so far. So a decal much like the interior pattern decals from Scale Motorsports would have been nice to have. Here is how it looks like.

No problem...I like your wild build by the way,

Nice build, I like it a lot. I've built some AMT trucks in the past (not this one tho') and they are challenging to say the least, but with patience you can do nice models from them.

Very Nice!

Many thanks again, your comments are appreciated.

I haven't built it but I have it in my stash, but it should go together as nice and easy as the other "New Era" Funny Cars from Monogram and Revell. The McEwen 57 Chevy Bel Air is a spin off from the original Monogram Funny Car tooling from 1984 when these new era Funny Cars came out and it's pretty much the same except for the body and body related parts. Don "Snake" Prudhomme's Wendy's/Pepsi and Dale Pulde's Miller High Life Warrior Trans Am's and Billy Meyer's Chief Autoparts/7-Eleven Mustang was the first in the series and the last kits in the series was the McDonalds, Parts America, MAD, and a couple of special event kits from the same tooling from 1997.

The transmission in front of the Allison engine is to reduce the propeller shaft speed to half of the crank shaft (the gear ratio is 2.00:1 so it reduces the prop shafts speed from the engines maximum 3000 rpm to 1500), it also reverse the rotation of the engine. The lower hole in the Allison transmission case is for the crank shaft and the upper is for the propeller shaft and they are connected with two gears and no clutch, this reducer gearing is not needed for this use so you could have used the clutch can from the original engine instead of the reducer gear and adapt it to the Allison engine for a convincing setup with a clutch. Just a thought.

Ohh I forgot...A very nice build Steve.

Thanks guys!! Yes I know now it's the wrong color, after what I have read Jake King painted the engines he built for Sox & Martin Ford Engine Blue to recognize his work and as a homage to his own days racing Fords...but I didn't know that back then when I built this model almost 18-19 years ago...as I said, I didn't have much references when I built it.

Time to show another of my old builds. I have allways liked this old Jo-Han kit ever since I first saw one at my cousins back in the early 70's, so I have wanted one for myself ever since and I finally got my chance when Seville re-issued the kit in the 90's...I bought two. The model was built in 1995-6 and it's built out of box but detailed with fuel lines, brake lines, ignition wires, throttle linkage, a 4-point racing harness with photo etched hardware, photo etched hood pins, hose clamps and a few more things. I had to fix the grille some as all of these kits I have have the same cracks under the outer headlights (I think all have) after that the grille area is painted aluminum with silver headlight bezels and grille hole edges. Everything except the lettering and contingency decals is painted, even the stripes over the hood and trunk are painted as the kit decal was too light in color (Seville included the wrong decal as it was for the SS/E Superbird model), the paint I used was rattle can touch up paints, Volvo 189 White, Ford 4ZP Spannish Red and Ford 2PP Azur Blue Metallic and Clear over that and polished out, BMF was used on the outside trim and finally the decals, and it looks kind of right. I know this model isn't quite correct, I didn't have much references other than the box art and I looked some at the old 1970 Hot Rod article of the S & M 70 'Cuda in black and white so I had to "wing it" some, so the engine for one is the wrong color (should be Ford Engine Blue) and some other things I've found out later, but the model came out pretty much as I wanted it at the time. I couldn't fit the side glass as the roll bar interfered with them and it was too late to fix it, so if you want your model to have the side glass you have to shorten the top of the roll bar and angle in the uprights slightly...or make a new one. I have plans to build a better, more correct version of this car as I have found lot's of references since I got a computer and internet, and I have gathered up a few more of these kits since my first two as this old Jo-Han kit one of my absolute favourite kits ever. Enough talk, to the pics. Enjoy!