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Could be so. Tyrone Malone had Truck Mate as a sponsor and he had chromed lock ring five diamond shaped hole budd wheels on his trucks. But I don't think our friend Ben Wicker would answer, he unfortunately passed away a while ago.

Back in the day when most ran on bias ply inner tube tires the rim sizes was 20 or 22 inches for the wheels, and popular tire sizes were 10.00-20, 11.00-20 for the 20 inch rims and 10.00-22 or 11.00-22 for the 22 inch rims, these rims are two or three piece split ring/lock ring rims where you take off a separate lock ring and outside ring to mount the tire and the rim itself is flat from outside to inside. The more modern era wheels for tubeless tires are 22.5 and 24.5 inches and they are one piece rims with a "ditch" in the middle to mount the tires, today almost all highway trucks has 22.5 inch rims and earlier 24.5 inch rims were popular, but today almost all highway trucks have 22.5 inch rims. Examples of tire sizes are 11.00-22.5, 12.00-22.5, and the same for 24.5, but lately many truck tires comes in metric widths like 385 and so forth. Most of the US truck models available to us from AMT has split ring/lock ring wheels and the White-Freightliner and a few others like the Autocar, the Diamond REO and White Road Boss has 22 inch rims and the others like the Kenworth W925-K123, the Peterbilt 359-352, the GMC General and Chevy Bison, the GMC Astro and Chevy Titan 90 and the trailers has the smaller 20 inch rims, one exception was the Kenworth K100 Aerodyne wich have a kind of tubeless wheel but the rears has no ditch in the middle and it has the 11.00-22 inch tires. The Ertl truck and trailer kits had a slightly larger outside diameter tire than the AMT kits, their 11.00-20 had a larger outside diameter and was also slightly wider, these tires also found it's way into some AMT truck kits after the AMT/ERTL merge, among them the Kenworth T600A and a few others.

This is the only good photo I have of the car, it's a larger version of one of yours. But the lace pattern on the car is most likely painted on and the scripts hand letterd, there were no vinyl wraps back in the day.

The kit is too heavy spec'd for a C600, and the badge on the cab door says C800, at least on the kit's I have so I belive it whould be closer to a C800 or C900.

A website isn't better that what's put into it, if the information is wrong you get wrong answers. Many timelines on Scalemates has lots to be desired as many are wrong and kits "related" to one another, with that I mean based on the same tooling, aren't on there correctly. I have noticed this in many occations and it makes searches harder, and if the information is wrong it's wrong. Try to do a search on the "modern era" Monogram and Revell Funny Car kits wich first came in the mid 80's, all of them should be on the same timeline as they are based on the same basic tooling but with different bodys, on Scalemates the kits are grouped on a timeline after what body they have and not in the same timeline wich in my opinion they should be as it's mostly the body and related parts that's different, the engine and chassis are basically the same with a few updates. I also noticed on the Revell Germany Kenworth W900 full detail kits wich were on different timelines because a misspint on the boxes but they should be on the same one, some kits are labeled as 1:24th scale and some are labeled 1:25th scale...all of them are 1:25th scale regardless of what the box says and they are even slightly underscaled in some places, to be honest, they are in fact based on the 1:16 Monogram Kenworth W900 kit as they are downscaled from that one, I belive this is changed now after I pointed it out. But...in many cases it's good information on Scalemates, not reliable all the time but it's mostly right, so it could use some improvements.

No I have not done that, sorry.

I see you wonder about wheel/tire size and the kit supplied wheels are the smaller diameter 10.00-20 rims and tube style bias-ply tires but lots of trucks back in the day had larger fiameter 10.00-22 or 11.00-22 rims for tube tires and these rims have the split/lock rings, and they fill out the fenders well. I see you have rims for tubeless tires on the drive axles but plan to use the tubeless style lock ring wheels on the front axle, tubeless front wheels looks quite different from the tubeless style rims as they are less curved...that will mean the wheel center is flatter, and it's easy to spot tube style lock ring rims at the rear as the rim part itself where the tire sits from the outside to the inside is flat and the tubeless one piece rims has a "dich" in the middle. You don't have to adjust the ride hight if you use larger diameter wheels because they did not do that, if you want to of course you can, but it's not necessary for the "right" look. There are a few AMT kits who have 22 inch rims, the White Freightliner is one, the Autocar kits, White Western Star and the Diamond REO, most of the rest has 20 inch rims. If we go to more modern rims for tubeless tires are the one piece 22.5 and 24.5 inches and lots of older trucks had 24.5 inch rims but almost all trucks today has 22.5 inch rims. The tubeless tires for 22.5 inch rims and the old tube tires for 20 inch rims are close in outside diameter for standard profile and the same goes for the 22 inch and the 24.5 inch. I also think the kit included 10.00-20 wheels in this kit and many others looks too small, especially with the small diameter AMT 10.00-20 tires, the MPC/ERTL 11.00-20 tires looks better, but as 22 inch rims were very popular back in the day I want to use them on my builds. Here is a comparison for front wheels. First the tube style lock ring wheel. And the tubeless style one piece wheel.

It came out nice Ken.

Very nice.

Well I have researched the Smokey And The Bandit for quite some time as it's on my build list, and I can see directly wich of the two trucks they used in the movie for the scene. They are similar but very different if you go into details.

Nice. It looks like you did the 1974 truck based on how the air cleaners look, the 1973 truck also used in the movie had chrome top and bottom, there are more differences between them also but... And for the rubber, the movie trucks had 22 inch wheels, not 20 wich are in the kits, so more rubber looks better. But you need to paint the KW hood pull emblem, they were gold with black KW letters, rings and stripes on both movie trucks.

Looks good. You know they were using two different complete rigs for the movie, one 1973 and one 1974 with Hobbs trailers and they are slightly different, but both had gold hood pull emblems with black stripes, rings and KW letters.

Very nice.

Yes he does, both "Crystal" and "Trisha" K100's has this paint scheme, different colors tho'. But I like the International Transport paint colors, and if we are into Youtube Ol2Stroker has a nice one on his Peterbilt 359 called "Mossy Broke", I like that one. I think you allready know this Ken, but both the AMT and Revell K100C Aerodyne kits has wrong dash boards, they are regular K100 flat top dash boards. The K100C Aerodyne got a different dash board back when the Aerodyne cab was introduced in 1976 with the VIT 200 Bicentennial Edition trucks, that dash was in all K100C Aerodynes and was in all K100E's when that model came. Here is how the K100 Aerodyne dash should look, and Texas3dCustoms has a 3D printed version I helped to develop.

I don't think anyone does M/T Hemi heads for Pontiac in any scale, or Ford for that matter, I have not seen any. If one wants to do a M/T Pontiac or Ford Hemi you have to do 3D prints or modify 392 Hemi heads to fit.

Constructive critisism is allways good if you know how to give it, and how to take it, some mean well but it comes out wrong. I have nothing against Chris's/HPIGuy's unboxing videos, they are good and informative when it comes to show what's in the box, but the explanations when it comes to what the parts are sometimes has much to ask, at least read the instructions first so you know what you are trying to show instead of guessing and jump to wrong conclutions. But the buildup videos from him, The Autistic Modeler and some others...naah, not to my liking, they are mediocre to say the least and has nothing to give me, I consider my building skills are above what they do...but with that said, I will not do any videos on it, my builds takes too long. I consider myself to be a decent experienced model builder and I like to see good models built where I can learn something here and there, some techniques and other things, it doesn't have to be super detailed show models who win every contest they enter, just models built up with basic modeling tecniques and a finished model that looks good from any angle.

Yes the AMT T600 is not that correct for a T600, but it looks pretty good on the shelf anyway. The AMT kit is supposed to be the 1990 to 1994 T600A with one piece curved windshield and the newer Aerodyne II sleeper with curved top and the cab and sleeper looks good, the hood needs to be modified a bit in the grille area to look right tho', the interior and the chassis and driveline with two tranmissions and Hendrickson walking beam suspension is outdated as it's the same as the W925 kit developed in the early 70's (wich was changed to a W923 early in the production and still is) wich is totally wrong for a 1990's T600. Revell Germany also have a T600 and it's of the older 1984 to 1989 T600 (pre-A) model with split windshieds and it was available with either a 60 inch flat top sleeper or the old style angeled Aerodyne I sleeper. For the record, the AMT race transporter trailers are not really correct for that time period either, it's their old 40 foot Trailmobile moving trailer from the 70's with some racing related interior parts and cabinets, and the race teams had moved on from them to specially made racing transporter trailers from Featherlite and others by then. But here is a model I built back in the early to mid 90's when these kits were new. It's the AMT Canepa version of the T600 with my own twist. For it to look a bit better the old lock ring wheels has to be changed to tubeless wheels, I didn't on my model but would have if I would build it now. I would also change the rear suspension to air ride and extend the wheelbase and side skirts, change engine and gearbox to more appropriate Cummins N14 or Cat 3406 and a Eaton-Fuller trans, add a compressor/generator box behind the sleeper. And I would most likely scatchbuild a Featherlite style 53 foot spread axle trailer. I have plans to do that sometime in the future.

Did you guys miss that the original poster wanted a TH400 with BOP pattern 😉, Chevy pattern is easy to find.

Yes Kalmbach sold FSM and some other publications to Firecrown last May

I gladly share what I have found out during my research on the Duel rig...and all other TV and movie trucks I have researched for that matter., so if you or any other member here want to know anything about this, the Movin' On rigs, the Smokey And The Bandit rigs, the Convoy rigs, the BJ and the Bear rigs and the Big Trouble In Little China rig, and the Tyrone Malone race trucks and transporters, you all are welcome to it as I have lots of information and references, just ask. Yes I'm from Sweden, about 650 km/400 miles north of Stockholm, and I have also been to the Vasa museum some years ago and it's neat.

I would like to see some new truck kits. Freightliner Cascadia Kenworth W900L and a few other KW models Peterbilt 379, 389(X) and a few other Peterbilt models But I'm not so keen on the Kenworth W990 or the Peterbilt 589.

Cool, we will most likely see all of them soon then.

The wheels in the AMT fire trucks are not correct, they should look like this. No kit I know of has this style...but as I said, I have a STL file of them for printing a member here made and it will work out somehow.

Nice. But it looks like a MK II? The Mk IV was the car wich won LeMans 1967 and this is a MK IV.

As I said, I have researched the Duel rig for quite some time and I save every picture I can find, and a man called Cam Lavin who knows even more than I do about this rig has been very helpful with what he knows, so I'm very grateful to him for that. There are some things available to do the Duel rig, both 3D printed and resin cast, but much of it are not correct unfortunately and even the diecast models available now are wrong, some of these things are based on Brad Wike's rig wich often are refered to be "the survivor rig built as a backup", but that's not true as it was built in the late 1990's and has nothing to do with the movie, so you can call it a tribute but it's far from correct, it's even not the correct color as it is painted red oxide primer...the main truck used in the movie was painted gold with a lot of dirt, grease, smear and grime. I have gathered parts for my build for quite some time and some are hard to find, I bought a 3D printed trailer body from Keystone Aluminum Miniatures (now defunct) wich looks decent, but this trailer body is also too short and the cabinets on the sides are the same length, the drivers side cabinet should be longer than the passenger side cabinet wich can be seen in the final crash scene if you look closely, so these things have to be addressed. The cab and hood for the truck I found at American Industrial Truck Models wich is not operational at the moment as the owner Dave Natale passed away some time ago, but it looks like AITM will be back with a new owner very soon, they had two different versions of the hood and grille for the needle nose Pete's, one with a single hinge on top and one with dual hinges, and the dual hinge is correct as the single hinge hood came later. The correct suspensions for the truck and trailer are also available, the Page & Page suspension for the truck I bought from Pavel Behensky at Strato Models but it's also available at Czech Truck Models, the torsion bar suspension the original trailer had is available from Auslowe, it had a Kenworth torsion bar suspension wich I learned from Cam Lavin. The wheels I have found from several sources, but I still look for the front wheels in correct size and I got a STL file for them but no printer, I belive I got the others covered. The engine is another thing, there are no Caterpillar 1673B available in scale wich the engine in the main truck. and a guy I talked to on facebook started to do files for 3D prints of this engine, but it was a while since I heard from him, so we'll see how that developes...otherwise...most likely have to scratch build one. Decals can be found at a few places, I got mine from modeltruckin.com but he recently sold the business to another guy and his website is modeltruckers.com, and I've seen the decals at other places too.