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Will drove a K-123 COE in the Pilot show, that's a W-925 conventional. This is Will's truck http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_42183-Kenworth-K-100.html

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Cool, hopefully he will find a set of polished 22 inch split rims and tires for it as all the Pruitt trucks had and it will look perfect. I noticed some things regarding the license plates for the trucks used in season 1, in episode 1 on the DVD "The Time Of His Life" the truck had only one license plate, it was the white Utah plate with number VL 9863 in black hanging under the bumper on the passenger side, the only plate on the bumper was the "Bingo Stamp" plate in the middle under the grille. In episode 2 there are more plates added to the front bumper, a white Idaho plate with number 2 9H5 in green, a green Montana plate with number 2-38C5 with state outline in white on each side of the "Bingo" plate, a blue Nevada plate with number ZZF 541 in white and a blue Oregon plate with number T829654 in yellow under the others, and the Utah plate is still there. In later episodes the Montana plate is changed to a plate without the state outline but same number, the Nevada plate is changed to a yellow plate with number 3N486X in black and the Oregon plate is changed to a off white plate with red T829654 number together with the same VL 9863 Utah plate under the bumper. Further into the season 1 episodes the truck has a white Washington plate with number H 34828 in green under the bumper where the Utah plate was and the Oregon plate has changed a bit as the numbers 6 and 5 of the T829654 plate number are silver instead of red. The trucks in season 2 looks to have the same license plate setup in all episodes, a yellow Illinois plate with black 9371 MR number, a "Bingo" plate, a yellow N.Y. Commercial plate with black 9825-IQ number, a white Georgia plate with red OK 8015 number, a white Texas plate with black IA-3798 number under them and under the bumper on the passenger side hangs a blue California plate with yellow 99 702 Z number.

The later Italeri tires aren't bad as they are one piece rubber, the old plastic two piece ones isn't that desireable.

I have now gone through all 44 episodes one time and I will for sure watch them again. If one of the trucks in season 1 was a 1973 they must have used that truck for most of the outside shots as the KW "bug" grille emblem is gold in most scenes. If you look closely at these two pictures (click on them and you get full size) you can clearly see the gold grille emblem, there are also different license plates on the two trucks in these pictures, the Montana and Oregon plates has the same numbers but are slightly different in the two pictures, and the plate under the bumper is a Washington plate on one truck and a Utah plate on the other....both pictures are from season 1. One more thing I noticed is that the mud flaps were often taken off when they hauled a trailer, in season 1 they were sometimes hanged right behind the fuel tanks when not used, in season 2 they weren't on the truck at all when not used. The NTC 350 was in the season 2 trucks and they had 10 speed transmission, the season 1 trucks had VT903 with 15 speed. More things I have noticed about the Pruitt trucks are listed in the Paul Sagehorn’s Movin' On 1974 Kenworth W925 VIT thread in the 1:1 Truck Reference Pictures category.

It's not only the wheels that has been changed. The last week I've gone through all 44 episodes of Movin' On Season 1 and 2 and have noticed some things worth knowing if you want to build a model of the Movin' On TV series trucks. There were at least 4 trucks used, two 1974 model year for season 1 and two 1975 model year for season 2, all are W925 V.I.T.s and has the same paint job and markings, Paul Sagehorn's is one of the 1974 trucks from the first season like the one in your picture. Except for the more modern wheels the rear suspension is changed on the Sagehorn truck as mentioned before, as I could see it was torsion bar on all trucks used for both seasons, the Sagehorn truck is repowered with a Cummins NTC inline 6 as the 1974 TV series trucks originally had Cummins VT903 V8's wich is clearly visible in several scenes, the battery boxes are slightly different and the hoses for the air cleaners are also different, Sagehorn has GVW.80,000 on the lower part of the doors and the TV series trucks had GVW.78,100 in the same place. The trucks in Season 1 also had gold "bug" grille emblem and side emblems wich Sagehorn's truck doesn't have, I find this particular thing a bit confusing as I have read the gold emblems were for the 50th anniversary of Kenworth in 1973...but the trucks used in Season 1 were supposed to be 1974 models and the V.I.T. package came for the 1974 model year, and it still had gold emblems in most shots. Some say they used a 1973 model modified to a V.I.T., in that case they have to have used that truck in almost all outside and inside shots because the gold KW "bug" emblem is clearly visible both from the outside and inside in most of the episodes and they must also have changed to a complete diamond pleat V.I.T. interior as it's the same in all episodes. The season 1 trucks had different license plates, at least four different plate sets are used as far as I could see, most noticeable is the plate under the passenger side of the bumper, in some episodes it's a Utah plate with VL 9863 number and in others it's a Washington plate with H 34828 number, the other plates on the bumper are a Idaho plate, a "Bingo" plate, two slightly different Montana plates and three different Nevada and Oregon plates are used in different episodes, the Montana plates used has the same number but one of them has the outline of the state and the other one doesn't, the Nevada plates used has different numbers and are different colors, the Oregon plates has the same numbers but are different colors. The season 2 1975 trucks are slightly different from the Season 1 trucks, the headliner in the Season 1 1974 trucks is beige and doesn't have any inserts but the 1975 trucks has green diamond pleat inserts with beige buttons, otherwise the interior is pretty much the same as in season 1, the front hubs are different as they are 4-3/8" window low profile Stemco oiler hubs on the 1975 trucks and the 1974 trucks has the smaller Stemco 2-3/4" window oiler hubs, the 1974 trucks has the hood side emblems inside the lower part of the lime green arrow, all emblems on the 1975 trucks are chrome and the side emblems on the hood are mounted further forward and below the lime green arrow on the 1975 trucks, the engine in the 1975 trucks are Cummins NTC inline 6 engines visible in a couple of scenes, the gear shift lever is different, it has a black knob on the 10-speed in the 1975 trucks and a chrome knob on the 15-speed in the 1974 trucks. The license plate arrangement looks to be the same in all scenes and episodes of Season 2, on the bumper there are Illinois, a "bingo plate" N.Y. Commercial, Georgia and Texas plates, and the plate under the bumper is a California plate, the Season 1 trucks did not have a California plate at all. The one thing that bugs me in the season 2 episodes is that they used the sound of the crappy GMC "Cracker Box" truck (called Pig Pen) two stroke engine in almost every outside scene where trucks passes by, they even used that sound for the Pruitt Kenworth. Hopefully someone has use of this information.

AMT did both 20 and 22 inch rims for their truck kits, the White Freightliner, Diamond REO, White Road Boss, White Western Star, and Autocar kits have 22" rims on 11.00-22 tires and the rest has 20" rims on 10.00-20 tires, later reissues can have the slightly larger 11.00-20 tires from the ERTL truck kits...all are split rims for tube tires. The exception is the Kenworth K100 Aerodyne COE wich has one piece tubeless disc wheels and either 11.00-22 tires wich are reused from the older kits with 22 inch rims, or the Tyrone Malone Bandag tires with no size markings depending on kit...the Malone race trucks also have different wheels than the other AMT kits.

I bought the remastered Movin' On DVD boxes and have just gone through all episodes of both seasons, it was great to see the series again...quite nostalgic, I eagerly wait for the In Tandem pilot to come on DVD as I have never seen it.

Most European trucks ride on 22.5 inch wheels, on US trucks 24.5 inch seems to be more popular than 22.5 inch, at least on the long haul tractors, and these are for tubeless tires. Back in the day when we had tube tires with split rims the sizes were 20, 22 or 24 inch. For modeling purposes we have to have rims that fit the available tires and as Kurt say, the 1:24th scale Italeri wheels are closer to 24.5 than 22.5 in 1:25th scale, both he (Double Take Replicas) and Jamie at Mo'luminum Truck Parts has very nice resin wheels and tires that look far better than the Revell wheels, some might be out of stock from time to time but they usually returns, Auslowe Model Accessories also have nice wheels. Why we have 1:24 and 1:25 scale...well you have to ask the manufacturers, 1:24 is more popular with the European and the far east manufacturers and 1:25 is more popular with the US manufacturers...the "exception to the rule" was Monogram who did the models in 1:24th scale.

If you are doing an older Pete the engine was most likely white as both Kenworth and Peterbilt had most of the engines for their trucks painted white from the manufacturers. But of course there were exceptions to the rule.

Yes one of them has, they appearently used at least four trucks or maybe more in the two seasons of the TV series and they were not exactly the same...the hubs is one thing and if you look at the emblem on the hood side on your picture and on mine below they are not at the same place. Two of the trucks were 1974 models for season 1 and two were 1975 models for season 2 and the one with the hub you mention is one of the 1975 models, the one in the picture below is one of the 1974 models. Right now I'm in the middle of watching the Movin' On series as I just got the Season 1 and 2 DVD boxes a couple of days ago, I have just completed watching all episodes of season 1, and started with season 2 but I haven't seen much of it just yet. The truck they used in season 1 has the kind of front hub in the picture below, the Cummins VT903 are clearly visible in several scenes and I also noticed the trucks used has gold and red "bug" grille badge and gold side emblems on the hood and sleeper wich I have read was for the Kenworth 50th anniversary in 1973, this is a bit confusing as the trucks for the first season was supposed to be 1974 models, well the rest will tell more and it's fun and nostalgic to watch the series again. Back in the day I did watch some episodes on Swedish TV, but I was too young then to remember much of them as it was 1975-76ish, other than I thought the truck was cool and the AMT Movin' On truck was one of the first truck models I bought and built and I still have it.

Looks great so far.

IMHO classic US cars are not only for the US market, the interest and market for them are World wide and if the new owners of Revell should stop doing US cars...wich I doubt...they wouldn't last long. Hopefully they will continue doing some new kits per year as they are far between otherwise, Round 2 doesn't do much other than reissues nowadays and since Moebius was sold to Pegasus Hobbies a couple of months ago it hasn't been anything new from them lately either.

I don't know if he is in business anymore.

This is going to be a killer Rickard.

Nice work guys!

Remember that this decal only are on the 390 High Performance engine, the others don't have it.

Very nice and realistic model indeed. The only thing I find that could have been done a bit different is the track of the front axle...it looks a bit wide for center point steering and could have been slightly narrower for it to look perfect. But that doesn't take anything away from your build as it's very very nice and are up there among the best I've seen so far.

Yes it looks close, I think that will work fine. Remember that you need two of the same valve cover decals for each engine. I'm ready to order when they are available.

I just went through 8 pages of Jo-Han kits on ebay and the majority of the kits listed was under $100...but some were well over. But it's one thing what price you ask and another what you get...who knows if the most expensive ones ever will sell at the asking price.

Some of my pictures are also restored...for now. But I don't trust them yet so the future will tell...I have paid for a Fotki account just in case as they were a lot cheaper than what PB asked.

I just got an email from Jack at Model Roundup. According to what he wrote the distributors have been told not to expect any shipment from Revell for the next 90-120 days...so we will most likley not see anything from Revell until this fall.

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That may be, but I don't think it's the only reason...some people think they look good, at least I do...but as I said...they are way too common for my taste, I like to be different and don't use what everyone else has.

American Racing Torque Thrust in different versions are probably among the best selling aftermarket wheels around, I don't think they are ugly...but they are way too common for my taste.