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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.

Both the altered wheelbase kit and this kit looks to be nice and I will for sure get both of them. But I don't like the steel wheels in the Moebius kits, they look weird as the wheel centers curves outwards too much, OEM wheels doesn't look like that. So I wish they would redo the steel wheels and get a more correct look.

That's not a coincidence, the Chrysler Turbine car was designed by Elwood Engel who worked for Ford before he joined Chrysler and was in the design team for the 1961 Thunderbird.

Brings memories, I built that as a kid back in the late 70's. I have one unbuilt in my stash and will do it again eventually.

You are right.

Any blown big block Chevy should do, all 396 to 454 engines looks the same on the outside.

The 1969 Charger 500 uses this grille don't they? But the only Charger 500 kit is the old MPC kit.

Don't worry about it. I just thought you might get more attention if it was in the car section.

Well you posted a wish for model car resin/3D parts in the Truck Aftermarket/Resin/3D section...so it's really not in the right place.

Wrong section.

Yes this is the inside of one of the two movie trailers used and the one restored and with us today. They cut out the inner steel tank and left the outer aluminum skin braced with angle iron, the trailer was originally an insulated asphalt/bitumen trailer used to transport hot bitumen to asphalt plants. Another interesting thing is that they had Fruehauf Albuquerque mud flaps clearly visible on one trailer...the trailer is in fact a Trailmobile, not a Fruehauf.