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There is 4 episodes aviabla on MTOD, I saw the first one but have not had time to see the rest of them yet. Looks like a good show.

I will keep as it is for the most part. I want to add USFS door markings on it but that will be done with vinyltape/foil or whatever they use. It will be used in summertime only but I do want to haul stuff with it as often as I can. Afterall, that's why one has a truck. Maybe I will upgrade to diskbrakes in the front but I'm not sure as the Norwegian version of the DMV require documentation from the manufacturer that it is ok to modify a vehicle with such things as diskbrakes. And the documentation must contain data on all the parts that are to be used and if they are safe to use on the vehicle when it is driven on the road. Not sure how to get that sort of documentation and if I do I can not be sure they accept it untill after any modification has been done and I come to get it inspected. If they don't accept it I will have a truck that is impossible to register without undoing the modification. That means that a conversion to diskbrakes must be very much a bolt on affair. If they ok it all the components are marked by the DMV and photographed so that they can not be swapped over to another vehicle at another time. Owning a classic vehicle here is not all that easy if one wants to modernise as one of the criteria that classic vehicles are still allowed to be driven is that they are historic artifacts that must to be used daily and must not be modified beyond period correct modifications. That means that putting modernday rims on it will be illigal and if one is to be very stringent one can not have radial tires either (alltough that has not been commented on by any offical that I have had to look it over). As I understand it the RHD versions are quite rare, I'm sure I saw someone post something about one on the sweptline forums some time back. I'm also a litte stumped as to what engine to put in to my resin kits (I got 4 of them so far, 1 Modelhaus and 3 others) I think I want to use the slant six out of the Lindberg 64 Dodge in one of them, I have so far not gathered up all that many mopar kits. I'm still waiting to see when that 3d printed poly v8 will be available.

Cool, was that a RHD drive one? Check out this one, same color as mine but SWB and slantsix:

The Modelhaus kit is very nice, I got one of them. But I'm leaning to not using that as a base for building a model of my own truck as the Modelhaus one has trim on the sides, big rearwindow and dash shifter. I think I want to build that in to a two-tone, possibly a red with white roof. Something similar to this:

I did get the truck registered last year (August 18th) but I had to put it away in storage in October so I only had it out on the roads for a couple of months. Here is some pictures I took of it: And a couple of weeks ago I went to see how its doing. I put the battery in it and it fired up right away. Drove it out just beoynd the gates but no further. Took some pictures in the snow and shot a little walkaround video with my phone.

No there is something that Round 2 could start doing with the reissues, put posters with the boxarts in the boxes!!

Cool, will be great so see it out again.

wow, very nice one. You have done a great job so far, it will be exciting to see it finished

Cool box, I got the original Police version. They also did a Dutch Rijkspolitie version of the Mercedes 190E with a boxart photoshowing a real 190E that has pulled over a Volvo 200 (may be a 260). Revell also had a Duthc police version of the VW Vanagon/T3 Caravelle.

I do wish they would reissue those vans again. I have never seen the NFL versions before.

Thanks for the link, lots of cool looking wheels there.

You are correct in that I did not specify what 8-lug wheels I was looking for, the reason for editing was just for spelling correction. The 65 Pontiac kit was not exactly what I was thinking of but they are cool wheels and I will keep that in mind for later. However, what I was thinking of is that in our 1:1 world there is a lot of different aftermarket wheels with 8-lug bolt pattern for vans and trucks. The stock looking steel wheels that Scenes Unlimited has looks very good, but I was thinking more of aftermarket type wheels. As I said in my first post, I got the 1:24 GMC snow plow truck and the Monogram 1:24 55 Ford panel truck has 8 lug turbine wheels. The wheels in the GMC kit looks very nice and the wheels in the 55 Ford would look great on a 70s van. I do also have the Monogram Ford F350 dually and the dually wheels can be used for several 1-ton trucks. But what about those 3/4 ton trucks and vans? I do have the AMT Snap Dodge Ram 2500 and that got 8-bolt rims but they are the stock wheels and are kind of hard to use on something else. Let say one wants to convert the AMT Chevy van to a G20 or make a C20 or F250 or a D200. The picture that Casey posted above with the two rims is a great example. Maybe the dually rim comes from the AMT Snap Chevy or Dodge Dually? That rim from the annual Ford truck kit would be great to have some sets of, they can be used in many applications. But are there others? Maybe kits that should not really have 8-lug wheels in them. I know that several older MPC and AMT kits with more than one wheel set in them often had one set of wheels that was "stock" and the second was an aftermarket set. Manytimes these had different bolt patterns than the stock. One example that I just found in my own stash in the MPC Chevy Cavalier that has 5-bolt "stock" wheels and 4 bolt "modular" rims as option.

I'm wondering if anyone knows what kits offer 8-lug wheels in them? I do know that Scenes Unlimited makes some really nice resin steel wheels and from what I have found in my own stash there is 8-lug wheels in the Revell/Monogram Chevy/GMC 1:24 pickup and the 1:24 55 Ford panel van. But are there others?

Looks great, I love the lifted look. Nice to see that someone is getting the kids in on it aswell. I'm still hopefull that my oldest son will start building on his own in a few years aswell. He is 5 now and is very keen on trying it out.

This is a littlebit off topic but also on topic as to what the japanese like in cars: Ok, its from 95 but its a cool show

I put in my wish and it is ofcourse the 1961-71 Dodge sweptline pickup that is my wish

Then you are a lot more qualified as an expert than I am. I have never owned a full scale Volvo of my own but have a lot of friends that have several of them. Maybe someone will offer a resin conversion kit with an engine for the Beemax 240. As for the 760, my plan is to build it as a typical Norwegian rural 18 year old's car. A 740 with aftermarket wheels, lowered by anglegrindig of a couple of turns on the springs and in that typical state of "soon to be at the scrapyard" look with rusty wheelarches, dents and bodyparts almost coming off. I got a similar plan for the 240 and maybe even the 850. But I'm also tempted to build the 850 as a new family car on a trip with the Thule roofbox and a bicycle on the back or maybe even towing a caravan (wich I guess I have to scratchbuild). Time will tell I guess, with some 600 unbuilt kits and about 20 started procjects and only 1 finished model in the last two years I don't think that I will do any of these Volvos in the near future.

It's very apparent that the movie was sponsored by GM, as most of the vehicles in it are GM products and indeed most of them Chevys. http://imcdb.org/movie.php?id=70328 But they had a few "pimpmobiles" http://imcdb.org/vehicle_17925-Lincoln-Continental-Mark-IV-1973.html http://imcdb.org/vehicle_17918-Cadillac-Fleetwood-60-Special-Brougham-1971.html http://imcdb.org/vehicle_17906-Chevrolet-Corvette--Corvorado-.html This is the one that I really would have wanted as a model, the Corvorado

Is that what AMT had planned to make a kit of?

Yes!! And I want that MPC Superfly and some figures of Kanangas henchmen.

Yes, you are correct but from what I read on Wikipedia (can I trurst that anyway?) the 740 could be had with these engines: (sorry but this is halfay Norwegian but I think you can understand most of it anyway) B19E: 2.0 L rekke-4 (83.04-84.07, bare sedan)[16] B19ET: 2.0 L turbo rekke-4 (83.12-84.07, bare sedan)[16] B23E: 2.3 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection ('84) B23ET: 2.3 L turbo rekke-4, Bosch Motronic engine management ('84) B23FT: 2.3 L turbocharged rekke-4 1985 og framover: B200E: 2.0 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, Bosch K-Jetronic 115 hp (86 kW) B200F: 2.0 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, Bosch LH-Jetronic 111 hp (83 kW) B200K: 2.0 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, Renix ignition, 200K hadde standard topp forhold til 230K (introdusert for 85 årsmodel) B200ET: 2.0 L rekke-4, turbocharged, Bosch Motronic engine management (155 hp or 160 PS, introdusert for 85 årsmodel)[16] B200FT: 2.0 L rekke-4, turbocharged, Bosch LH-Jetronic 156 hp (116 kW) B204E: 2.0 L 16-ventilert, DOHC, rekke-4, natrurlig aspirert (introdusert for 89 årsmodel) B204FT: 2.0 L 16-ventilert, DOHC, rekke-4, turbocharged (introdusert for 89 årsmodel) B204GT: 2.0 L 16-ventilert, DOHC, rekke-4, turbocharged (introdusert for 89 årsmodel) B230A: 2.3 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, forgasser (1985–86) B230E: 2.3 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection (introdusert for 85 årsmodel) B230F: 2.3 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, 114 hp ('85-88 740GLE, '89-90 740GL, '90-92 740) B230K: 2.3 L rekke-4, naturlig aspirert, Renix ignition, Heron head (introdusert for 85 årsmodel) B230ET: 2.3 L rekke-4, turbocharged, Bosch Motronic (introdusert for 85 årsmodel) B230FT: 2.3 L rekke-4, turbocharged, 160 hp ('85-92 740 Turbo **obs: '90-92 modeler produserte 162 hp**) B234F: 2.3 L 16-ventilert, DOHC, rekke-4, naturally aspirated, 153 hp ('89-90 740 GLE/GLT) And the 760: B23ET (turbo) B28 E/F (PRV-V6) B280 E/F (PRV-V6) B230ET (turbo) B230FT (turbo) B204FT (16v turbo) These are only the petrol/gas engines, both 740 and 760 could also be had with Diesel engines. The Italeri kit has a 4 cylinder non turbo engine. But it is supposed to be a 760 as the 760 was launched in 1982 and the kit has details that only the 82 models had (the 760 badging and the rims that are supposed to mimic the wheels from the Jakob as well as other details) The 740 was launched in 84 and the kit is dated in 83. But I do think (I know it is just my theory) that it is a "for Italy only" version that Italeri used to make the kit from. Quite possibly that the engine is supposed to be the B19E wich would fit under the 2-litre tax rules of Italy. Here is a picture of a B19E in a 1982 244: From this link: https://www.nettivaraosa.com/en/auton-varaosat/2137280 Looking at the above posted picture of the Italeri engine and the one in the 244, they do look similar in my eyes. EDIT: Found the English language version of the Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_700_Series

Soldio has a couple in 1:18 Sedan https://www.ebay.com/itm/PEUGEOT-403-BERLINE1964-GRAND-LUXE-8CV-1-18-SOLIDO-COQUE-BLISTER-MODELLBAU/173165956506?hash=item28517ecd9a:g:7osAAOSwkrFaiYvh and cabriolet: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-18-PEUGEOT-403-CABRIOLET-GRAND-LUXE-8CV-SOLIDO-DIECAST-COCHE-METAL-ESCALA/152859364728?hash=item239720cd78:g:pekAAOSwj1haVUoe Nothing in 1:24 or 25 as from what I can see.

My plan is to try using the top and bottom halfs and cut out the plastic "coverup" parts. Notice that it is a 4 cylinder, not a 6 as it should have been in a 760. A 760 could also be had with a 4 cylinder and turbo but there is no Turbo in that kit engine. My theory is that the 760 Italeri kitted is an Italian version with a normal B21 or B23 4 cylinder in it. If I don't remeber to incorrectly, Italy had some taxrules that ment that Ferrari made a 2 litre version of the 308 called 208 and I also think that Volvo made a version of the 760 for Italy with the 4 cylinder in it. So, the 760 is actually a 740

The 760 is a Italeri kit with itemnumber 651 and dated 1983, atleast that is what is on my kit. It can be built up quite nicely with some work. A fellow Norwegian built this a few years ago. Modified front end, different wheels and adjusted the stance of it.

I want to share some pictures of my collection of 200 series Volvos. These are 1:43 diecasts made by Editions Atlas and are of a subscriber service. This Volvo Collection has been going on for some years now and at the current moment I got 71 models raning from a ÖV4 Jakob from 1927 to an S80 from ca 2000. The last one to arrive was a 90s V40 the came in the mail a few days ago. So far I have gotten 10 200 series models and here they are all togheter. At the moment I do no have any room to display them so they are all packed up the boxes that they came in but I got the 200 series cars out for a litte photoshoot. Sorry if the pictures are so small. I can probably upload bigger ones if anyone wants that. I tried to captcher some of the differences on these cars over the year. You will see the bonnet, grille and headlamps changed from the early 244 in light blue to the 1993 240 Polar wagon in dark blue mettalic. The 260 versions had a more defined hump on the bonnet and the grille was sticking out more than the 240s. You can also see the differences in tailights over the years an models. The more exlusive 260s had bigger ones than the 240s and the later ones got them more intefrated in to the body. There is also lots of diffrences in trim, some with chrome or I guess polished aluminium and some with blacked out trim.