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I have the Hot Rod Magazine issue with the Toy VIII and I've had it for ages, got it from my uncle back in the 70's. That hood is not a L88, it's the ZL2 hood, it was meant for the planned ZL2 Camaro but it never materialized...according to the Grumpy's Toys book. Here is pictures of the ZL2 hood without the "lump" scoop on it. And the L88 style hood used on the Baldwin Motion Camaro's...similar but not the same.

I believe they are painted with a fire resistant paint on the inside and most are black or dark grey. Although modern funny car bodies are carbon fiber and not fiberglass.

Bill Jenkins had a few different scoops on this car. Most of the pictures I have on "Grumpy's Toy" VIII it has the "Grump Lump". Here is No VIII with another version of the lump on a fiberglass copy of the rare ZL2 hood, the ZL2 Camaro wich was meant for 1970 but never happened. Jenkins built Toy VII with the ZL2 hood and a non RS grille but it did not see much action and the car was returned to the dealer Ammon R. Smith according to the Grumpy's Toys book. This was the first scoop on the No VIII from the Hot Rod article when it was newly built, looks also to be on the ZL2 hood. Here is a later version scoop he tried. Sometimes he experimented and taped off unwanted openings.

The front wheels in the MPC Grumpy's and Bruce Larson's Vega is not the best renderings of Cragar Super Tricks, they don't have the right look and are too wide. The best I have found so far is from Futureattraction https://www.futurattraction.com/wheels-resin The plastic cap over the spindle and lug nuts used are a problem tho', I have not found anything close to that.

Pavel Behensky has nice products.

Well you have to be precise in your question to get the answer you are after. When someone say truck I immediately think semi truck...semi truck pickup truck...huge difference.

I second that.

Mindblowing.

If it's semi truck kits you mean there are only two. The International LoneStar and the International ProStar. Two different box trailers, one 53 foot Great Dane Reefer trailer and one 53 foot smooth side trailer, and one 48 foot flatbed trailer. A couple of sets of truck and trailer wheels, dual mounts and super singles.

If you get aftermarket decals and sometimes in the kits themselves for the movie cars and trucks the license plates are included. I have bought several decals for movie trucks from Modeltruckin.som like the Movin' On truck (only have 1 plate wich is wrong and should have 6 plates from different states), Duel truck (has two sets of plates, one set clean and one set dirty), Smokey And The Bandit truck (has plates), BJ And The Bear truck (has plates), Convoy Rubber Duck and Pig Pen trucks (has plates), Highballin' Iron Duke truck (no plate) and Big Trouble In Little China Pork Chop Express (no plate). Modeltruckin.com is now gone but someone took over and sells most of the decals Jerry had, https://modeltruckers.com/ Otherwise you have acme license maker where you can do your own and print out.

Yes, that's the thing, 22 inch wheels with 11.00-22 tires fills up the fenders and looks more realistic for that era trucks. The 20 inch wheels on 10.00-20 tires looks too small. And many of the later trucks with tubeless tires and wheels back in the late 70's and 80's used 24.5 inch rims wich do the same thing.

I have to add a thing for this wish list. The truck wheels we can get from the aftermarket nowadays are mostly modern tubeless style wheels like 22.5 inch and some 24.5 inch 10 hole Alcoa's, 2 hole and 5 hole steel "budd" wheels and such, the thing is that almost all US truck kits available to us are old and developed in the late 60's early 70's and tubeless tires and wheels wasn't that common back then. Many of the AMT truck kits has tube style lock ring Alcoa's but first of all, most of them are 20 inch and just a few like in the White Freightliner kit are 22 inch, and after what I can see on pictures from the era a lot of trucks on the road back then had 22 inch wheels so it would be nice if someone did them. Another downside with the AMT Alcoa tube style lock ring wheels in their kits is that they doesn't look right because they have an edge and raised plateau where the lug nuts are...they shouldn't have that as the part from the rim to the center on the real wheels goes in a transition from curve to a flat part where the lug nuts are, no ridge or raised part at all, the curve just stops and goes into flat...so all the AMT kit wheels are wrong, not even the tubeless style wheels they have in the K100 Aerodyne kits looks right, the rim should have a dip in the middle wich they haven't. There are not much available when it comes to 2 hole and 5 hole tube style lock ring steel "budd" wheels either and there were many variations of them back then, 5 diamond shaped hole wheels are one example, it would be nice to be able to get them on 20 and 22 inches. And now since AITM and Keystone has disappeared from the market there are no source for the 5 hole Alcoa's anymore, so someone needs to take that up. In conclution, the modern style wheels are plentiful on the aftermarket but we need more old style wheels for old AMT truck kits.

The Foose version is a 1956 and has a modified body, so it's not possible to build stock.

It shouldn't be a problem, the 8V-92's available isn't much larger than the kits 8V-71, maybe the turbo on the engines from the AMT Kenworth K100 Aerodyne kits can be a bit high...but it should work one way or another. I have loose plans to put in a 12V-71T in one of my 352's, I have a double bunk cab wich just screems for it.

I got my copy of #225 here in Umea, Sweden the day before yesterday and I enjoyed it, and I also got #224 some time back. So hopefully the mailing issue is solved now as I got two in a row. But I'm still missing #222 and #223 wich never came...lost in cyberspace or somewhere else.

Yes Bond drove a truck with this livery in a couple of scenes in Licence To Kill.

I don't know what's with governments nowadays, we have suffered from the same thing with the Tamiya panel line colors, they are banned here in Sweden since this summer. If it was large quantitys I can maybe understand it, but for gods sake, it's model paint and it can't be that much we're talking about, for the panel line colors it's maybe a couple of gallons in total in the whole World and for spray paint it can't be much either. It would be interesting to see the volume Tamiya makes each year of said products total, it has to be significantly small volumes compared with other paint manufacturers and for panel line colors, a bottle of 40 ml last several years. Are the governments trying to kill this hobby or what?? Because they do the best they can to do it...it's hard enough to get people into it without this to cope with.

I got #224 but I never got #222 and #223, I have sent a request for replacements some time ago and I sent onother request as late as a couple of days ago, but no answer or nothing.

Nobody is a bit harsh statement, but the demand is too low for the model companies to develop and tool up a 4-door kit as it's very expensive

If the model kit doesn't have an engine I think twice about buying it...if I really really want the particular I might get it, but mostly I pass and I think I only have a couple curbside kits out of the several hundreds in my stash. I like to detail engines and engine bays so curbside is not my medicine...even Chip Foose says the engine is the gem in the jewelry box.

As Steve say, they are definately not known for accuracy, the engines in the Trumpeter Falcon/Ranchero kits are way too large...the 221, 260, 289 and 302 is a very small engine...so it's a bit bulky and not well proportioned, the transmission is also questionable.

It's not an air cleaner, it's just an air box...no filters inside.

Hopefully I will get this one, I got #224 the regular way but I'm still missing #222 and #223 wich never reached me.

Exactly. It almost looks like the hub cap is outside the rim...like on an old pedal car.

A must have kit.