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This might not get finished, but I'll stick it in here anyway. There are no suitable donor kits for this, so it'll be all scratchbuilt apart from the tyres. This is what I'm attempting: Progress so far:

I don't get the fuss over these. They're oversize for 1/25, the hubs and bolt detail look toy-like and the offset on the 5 spokes is huge. I bought some of each and offloaded them as soon as I could.

The injection manifold in the AMT '55 Nomad is about the best in 1/25. It's also in the '55 Chevy Sedan street machine kit (with the ugly pink car for box art). I'm not sure if it's in the stock version of the sedan? Nobody makes angled stacks like that, AFAIK, so you'll have to make those yourself.

That's one of those confused modern reinterpretations, not a gasser in the original sense of the word. 10 spokes are a recent creation to allow a five stud mounting. The original American Racing wheels were 12 spoke spindle mounts, in 15" and 18" as Jesse already pointed out.

Nice work so far, I like the looks of the early ones. How's this? Unfortunately, it's on Fotki, so many of the images are MIA. At least this one with the dash is still there...

I made some progress today. I've got the engine installed and the new air intake and ducting fitted. Clearance is tight, but the cab fits. I've also made up some prototypical bracing for the stack mounts, so I hope they won't keep falling off now... of course, having added the support struts, the kit exhaust no longer fits. Three steps forward, two steps back...

Friday update. I painted the new engine parts, but couldn't remember how I mixed the beige before... I think it was a better match the first time, but never mind. Also primed the cab in white. It will be green & white, but I haven't settled on a stripe pattern yet. Also got the interior started, it might look the same colour as the engine, but it's not, it's darker and has some gold mixed in to give it a sheen.

Slow and steady progress. The cab still needs fettling, but after several fill-sand-prime-repeat sessions it's almost there. I assembled the kit steps but wasn't happy with the fit, so I ended up filling the cab. I'll make stirrup steps. I got a bit further with the new air cleaner. It still needs bolt heads, but it's about done. I've roughed in a new intake scoop and duct, but didn't take a photo...

I hope it is a myth that the tooling was destroyed. I'd really like to see it reissued in any guise.

I thought it had been irreversibly modified to create the T600. Still, Round2 have restored tooling for the some of the car kits, so who knows.

The AMT blower looks a little small to me, more like a 4-71? I think the Revell blower on the AMT engine might work - it is at least as long as the engine:

Bump for some progress photos. Turbo is installed and I've started on the new DynaCell unit.

I've changed the plan on this and decided to add a turbo. Not wanting to rob parts from another kit, I modified the exhaust manifold and scratched up a turbo, aftercooler and inlet duct. I'll also make up a new Dynacell air cleaner with the inlet on the opposite side - there's a photo of this setup in an early '70s brochure.

Weight distribution? It doesn't even look good with the engine that far forward. "Hemini" has been done before anyway, with a proper engine in a real Mini:

Guy with an big ego built one fairly interesting car nearly 50 years ago and thinks the world owes him a living because of it. He must really be deluded if he thinks someone's going to bankroll him moving and setting up a "large shop" at his new house. If anyone wants to give me money to move to a new house and build a large shop, i'm all ears...

Stupid, but I guess they like the crop sprayer vibe...

Anyone else still getting these? Every time I start a new browser session, Firefox tells me not to come here because it's a reported attack site. I know that's been dealt with, but Firefox seems to disagree for some reason. https://www.stopbadware.org/firefox?hl=en-US&url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.modelcarsmag.com%252Fforums%252Findex.php%253Fact%253Didx

An update. I'll take better photos when time permits. These should show the narrowed front track and lowered headlights. The cab still needs a lot of work... I've decided to fill in the step openings, so that's next. I'll make stirrup steps out of wire.

Thanks for the replies, good information. I've already removed the rivets and wipers, so at least I'm on the right track. I think I'll do this one OOB, then try another one, backdated to the lower mounted cab with a different engine and a stack intake.

If only he'd used rectangular headlights, he'd have the full house of ugly. I'm sure he would think this one isn't a real hot rod, because it doesn't have flames, or Weld Wheels, or half the Summit catalogue bolted on.

From what I've read, the Cummins became available as an option in '69. I also found this: http://www.olddodges.com/literature/lseries/69l3.JPG Note (l) at the bottom says "Air brakes mandatory with diesel engine".

Nice, I have similar plans for mine, if I ever get around to it.

Bumping a two year old thread (a) so I can find it and (b ) because I've finally found some time to do more on it. Engine is mostly complete and I've mounted the front wheels. Rather than narrow the axle, I ground down the hub mating surface on the inside of the wheels and took some material off the brake drums. I was toying with the idea of swapping in a DD V8 from another kit, but wasn't sure what to do with the air intake. I wanted to add an air intake stack and frame mounted air cleaner, but couldn't find any reference photos. How common was the front air intake?

No progress here, but hopefully I'll have time to get on it again this week.

Very impressive!