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The drag Pirana was out last less than 10 years ago.

I bought a set of the 1969 Mk I BRM wheels and a set of the Mk IV wheels from LeMans Miniatures a while ago and they look great. But I don't know the difference between the 124002 and 124005 sets...maybe the width and the tires are different...otherwise I don't have a clue as they used BRM wheels both years. But you can shoot them an email and ask.

I just sent a message to you.

I don't know what this bus is but the grille looks to be a 42-47 Ford COE truck grille turned upside down.

I wish I could do that as I have couple of things I would have liked to have done...but I don't know how to use a CAD program. It looks nice and I hope the end product comes out nice.

Well Chris stated in this thread that he was replicating the restored car and not the actual car from the time it was run.

Good to know Jim. I know the Revell teardrop scoop is wrong and I've bought some resin hoods to replace them. The door panel stripes can be done with paint as it's one color but the pattern for the rear seat fabric part is a lot more difficult so a decal would help a lot. Gary: I own a 64 Fairlane Sports Coupe and there are some things that differs between the Sports Coupe and the regular 500 Hard Top, not just the center console, the Sports Coupe is top of the line and has more chrome trim than the others that you have to take off to do a regular 500. The hood scoop trim, the grille behind the quarter panel side scoops, the trim piece at the base of the roof b-pillar is slightly different as the 500 has a crest emblem on it and the Sports Coupe has the "Sports Coupe" script and a tri-color stripe emblem above the trim piece, the rear panel has a different black "Fairlane 500" emblem instead of the gold "Fairlane Sports Coupe" and a couple of more things.

Yes I'm aware of the high shipping charges as I've done most of my model related business in the US since 15+ years, both from online hobby shops and ebay, especially since the surface shipping option disappeared some years ago...I don't want it to be more expensive than necessary and it gets expensive enough as it is without the GSP. You have to agree with me that even tho' $15.00 for shipping is expensive it's a lot better than to ship the same thing to the same place for $30.00-35.00 through the GSP.

The more I see of this build the more impressed I get.

I have bought some stuff from Shapeways/TDR Innovations printed in the frosted ultra detail medium, a 18-71 blower and a set of Chevrolet 572 Valve covers in 1:24-1:25 scale and they looked very nice with very little cleanup. I wish I knew how to use a CAD program as I have a couple of older style Weld Racing wheels I would have liked to do for a Funny Car project as nothing like the ones I want to replicate are available...I thought in the line of doing new inserts for the So-Real / Pegasus Hobbies Weld Magnum PRO 1:24 scale drag racing wheels...but I don't have a CAD program nor can I use it as I have never been in contact with anything like that.

Very nice, one of my favourite Ferraris since the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

No the Multi Maverick Gasser/Altered was a later build after the red 1969-70 Mr Gasket Gasser Mustang (as were the model), and George didn't use it that much and sold it eventually. there is not much written about it other than the January 1971 Hot Rod article. As Bill said Willys chassis was used for the Malco and Mr Gasket Mustangs, so the MPC model is quite right from the box and you can build it as it is.

Everything has two sides and this is no exception, the seller may think it's great as he only has to ship domestic where ever the thing he's selling is going to, very easy and everything is allright with that from his point of view...but the buyer who has to pay for everything might not be that impressed when he finds out what the shipping and import charges are...yes they are stated in the auction so it should not be a surprise but it can for sure be missed in the process if you don't have your eyes open...been there done that. Of course the GSP can sometimes be good even from the buyers side when it's more expensive stuff where you want tracking, insurance and going to be charged with import fees anyway...but definately not for everything, for most modeling items the cost of shipping with the GSP are outrageous, my example from an earlier post when an item costs $2.50 in the auction and the GSP shipping and import charges adds up to $35.00...14 times what the item itself is worth...that's not reasonable in my book., in reality the international shipping for that item might cost 3-5 bucks if you do it the normal way. So for modeling stuff and not that expensive items I think the Global Shipping Program scares most international buyers away...I for one don't want to use it and avoid auctions where GSP is stated as there's no way around it when you have bid. I see the Aussies have no import charges on second hand items and hobby stuff if I understood what I have read in this thread correctly...that's great...I wish we had something like that...so I can see that they are not that happy at all with this GSP thing as they with this have to pay for something they don't have to pay for otherwise.

This thread has become more about Italeri and their model kits than about this truck and possible kits of it...who does it if it would come to that is not important to me as long as it's a good model. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I just stated mine in this matter...or tried to...the thing I wanted to say is that if a model company...wichever company that may be...was thinking about doing a kit of this truck I hope they could at least try to do it right while they're at it...if not I'm not interested.

Yes I don't think any international buyer is happy with this "program", it rather scares them away instead of helping them. The seller don't have to go through the Global Shipping Program if they don't want to, it's up to them what shipping form they choose. I see several auctions on ebay US where First Class Mail International or regular Priority Mail are the shipping options...so you can still do them if you want to and skip this lousy program.

Okay, Thanks!

I'm not a rivet counter by all means and the world doesn't go under for a millimeter here and there as long as it can be fixed. But I think a kit of whatever it is should at least have fairly correct stuff in it, an engine wich is at least close to the thing that's supposed to be in there, same with the suspension, axles and much of the frame. I don't like to buy a truck kit that's supposed to be for example a Volvo F16 or FH16 and find the same outdated TD120C engine, drive train and frame as all their Volvo F12 has had since the very beginning, that's not even close to what these trucks should have wich is a TD162 engine for the F16 and D16 engine for the FH16, both looks a lot different than the TD120...so everything is wrong except the frame and cab. Same with the Scania 164 and R 500, they have the same old DS14 engine as the 142 and 143 kits (the 143 should even have had an Intercooled DSC14 but didn't), that's also wrong as Scania did totally new engine platforms after the 143 series and the DC16 wich it should have been looks a lot different than the DS14...so just because it's a Scania engine doesn't mean it's right. The Italeri Volvo F6 kit shares everything with the Renault, Iveco-Magirus and DAF kits and has an air cooled Deutz V6 engine...the cab is shared between them so that's correct, but Volvo has never had any air cooled engines and the F6 should have a Volvo TD60. Some of the American trucks has older style Cummins NTC engines that Italeri only did a few new parts for and want's us to believe it's a N14...not so correct there either as a NTC and N14 looks a bit different, and some are on the wrong chassis so the suspension is wrong and so on.. Same goes for the RoG Marmon, it's so wrong that I wouldn't give a dime for it,...kits like that is not what I want to put my money into. What everyone else does is up to them.

Yes it's stated in the listing but I avoid these auctions as I think the cost for this is way too much.

Yes they are and that's why I still have the ones I have, but most of their other trucks aren't.

Can we leave this and get back on topic.

Sounds pretty much like an Italeri American truck to me. Well, Italeri does the cab, hood and related parts pretty much right so they are a little better...but the rest of the truck kit is often wrong.

I find this new "Customs Services and International Tracking" thing (scam) totally unnecessary and bad for both the buyer and seller. The seller maybe thinks it will make it easier for international buyers to bid and buy their things, but in fact I believe it scares most of them off with what you have to pay just for this so called "service". If you use it the shipping is allways Priority Mail Intl wich almost is double the price of First Class Mail Intl and the tracking and the few days faster shipping isn't worth that much, secondly you must pay import charges on every purchase...85% of the deals I have done on ebay these past few years I haven't had to pay anything as most slips through Customs without charge...so why would I want to pay everytime...no I want to take care of the import charges myself if it comes to that. A lot of times the cost of this so called "service" way exceeds the cost of the parts or model I want to buy and pay double or even more than that isn't what I want to do, one example, if a part I want to bid on is on ebay and this "shipping customs service thing" is on, the part maybe costs lets say $2.50...but the cost of the "service" is around $35.00...so the total price of this part will be $37.50...yeah like I will pay that for one lousy part when I can get a complete model and shipped for that price...no way in ****.

Where did you get the Weld Delta 1 rear wheels??

Okay it might be a bit worse then...but not much.

One might call it nitpicking but I for one want my models to be as accurate as they can be and if the kit itself isn't correct in several places I woun't buy and build it...that's the main reason I stopped buying Italeri kits, I had lots of them before but sold them off so I only have four in my stash now, one Scania 142M Roadrunner, one Peterbilt 378 Long Hauler, one Volvo VN 780 (no engine ...!!) and one Freightliner FLC. Italeri mostly take shortcuts and re-use wrong or outdated stuff for their kits instead of doing new correct parts in the chassis and engines department and I don't like to waste my money on such kits, and the RoG Marmon isn't much worse than many of the Italeri kits. So if Italeri would make this truck I hope they will do it right and not take the same shortcuts they usually do, otherwise it's a no buy for me...I rather put my money on better more accurate kits such as the Moebius offerings.