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It's not the best Charger kit on the market but it was the first Charger I built...and it was back in 1979-80. Nowadays there are much better kits available.

Hopefully they are better than what they had before...but now everything will be measured in metric as the Germans has used that system for allmost forever (introduced in 1872)...so who knows. The thing I react to the most is the underscale wheels Revell put in many of the newer kits lately, they look like 13 inch wheels when you compare them to wheels from the older kits or wheels from other manufacturers. But there are much else that could be desired, it's not good when they have to redo a new kit because it doesn't have the right proportions, and sometimes they let obvious faults with some kits go through without correcting them. How hard can it be to take a measure (measure twice) and divide with 25.

I asked Revell US for new cab for the reissued Kenworth K100 flat top last summer as the cab in my kit was cracked when I opened it...Ed Sexton answered the email I sent but I never got one...and I will most likely not get one now. I'm not that impressed of Revell's Chineese quality control the last few years as it looks like more and more slipped through.

Isn't the 273 and 318-340-360 close in outside apperance, at least in model form, all of them are small block LA family engines.

I don't know when it was changed but the easiest way to be sure to get a older boxing is to look for the MPC lable on the box, mine from 1979 has the steering wheel you are looking for and it's molded in orange. Here is a picture of a box like the one I have, the kit number is 1-0661 and the 1979 copyright date is on top of the box, the AMT/ERTL labled ones also have copyright dates on top of the box but they are later (1997, 1999 and so on), and the newer MPC labled kits does not have any copyright date on the box top.

KJ at Double Take Repicas has a better reefer unit that the old unit in the AMT reefer kit, it's a corrected version of the Thermo King unit in the ERTL Great Dane reefer trailer. But you still need a tank and battery boxes for it.

It came out very nice Jarda. I have followed your progress and know some of the problems you had with this build but the result doesn't show it.

As Luc said, the original #T500-500 Unilite small window cab 359 issue was AMT's first truck model kit and came 1969, it had no sleeper but you could order a Restrite sleeper and visor from AMT, the original kits has a Detroit Diesel 8V71 and Stabilaire rear suspension, all six leaf springs are molded to the frame rails. I have one #T500-500 California Hauler kit, it's molded in blue-grey plastic...but the windows in my kit are clear, not green, some had the instructions printed in blue and some in black, mine are black...so they must have done at least two runs originally as they are slightly different. The second version of this tooling #T522 was the wrecker version of the Unilite small window cab 359 and it came 1972, I also have that one and it's molded in white. It's pretty much the same as the original kit with a "Big Stick" wrecker unit included, the same wrecker unit is used on the later #T533 1100 cab wrecker from 1977 and the kits after that. The third version #T500 came in 1973 and it's the same as the #T500-500 but included the sleeper parts tree with the sleeper and visor, I have one of these too and it's also molded in white. 1976 AMT did the #T501 1100 cab 359 wich got several other kit numbers later and the old Unilite small window cab 359 was forgotten until the latest slightly modified reissue of the original #866 from 2014. The 1100 cab 359 kit has a Cummins NTC 350 and Peterbilt AirTrac rear suspension with separate parts and this kit share no parts with the earlier Unilite kit. The tooling for the T500-500 was supposed to be lost but if I remember correctly some of the old #T500-500 359 tooling was blocked off on the #T502 Peterbilt 352 tool and had not been used since 1973-74, so it was as Luc said hidden in plain site, because the 352 tooling has been used several times after that. The original 359 came in 1969 and the 352 came 1970 so both the 359 and 352 must have been developed at the same time as they share some of the tooling, if you look at the instructions for the 352 they start with a "parts not used" box and these parts are for the 359.

Very nice, I like that livery.

I'm not much of a "showrod" man myself but I also like the Uncertain T...don't know why.

It would be bad if these iconic trucks would disappear again, the Movin On truck is sold, both the Rubber Duck and Duel trucks are sold...and the websites about them are gone resulting in lots of lost information. Sagehorn at least still has the BJ truck.

Here is a definition of the word Motor I found quoted from a dictionary. "a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts" So it can be either, and you say Motor Club, Motor Vehicle, Motor Oil, Motor Racing, Motor Sport, Motor Home, Motorcycle, and so on...and all are not electric or meant to be. And isn't the name Mopar a contraction of MOtor and PARts. The definition of the word Engine in the same dictionary is: "a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion". Locomotives are often refered to as engines, they can be powered by steam, electricity or diesel...or both electricity and diesel as most diesel locomotives are.

The boxart are close but not exactly the same for the different issues. The original 2009 issue. The 2011 reissue The 2016 reissue.

None. The 427 SOHC was not on the option list and you could only get one over the counter if you had the right connections in 1964-65. But you could get a 427 from 1963½ to 1968, single 4 bbl rated at 390 hp and 410 hp, and dual 4 bbl rated at 425 hp...but they were closer to 426 than 427 at 425.98 cui. Chevrolet had three different 427's in the 60's, the Mk I 409 W engine based 427 Z-11 in 1963, the Mk II 427 "mystery engine" also in 1963 and none of them were available in showroom cars, and the Mk IV "rat engine" based 427 from 1966-forward wich everyone could buy.

I don't know for sure but after what I have seen on Paul Sagehorn's own now gone tvtruckin.com website some years ago the Movin On truck and the BJ truck he has now is supposed to be the real deal, he even found the right Brown trailer for it. He had a replica BJ truck with a trailer with a modern reefer unit at first but he appearently sold that when he found the truck he has now. If you follow the link below you can see what Paul himself wrote about his TV trucks on Hank's Truck Forum in 2009. http://hankstruckforum.com/htforum/index.php?topic=31943.0 This is what was found under the fifth wheel mounting plate on this truck when it was restored, the photo is saved from Paul's own tvtruckin.com website.

Yellow was Accel, MSD's signature color is red, today you can get MSD stuff in black too. The thing bugging me on a build is left moldlines on things like the radiator and other visible places.

Very nice as usual and you do great work with these decals. But I'm still waiting on the upphostery pattern for the Thunderbolt rear seat and the valve cover and air cleaner decals for the Mopar Super Stock cars, I can't find them on your site.

And the old tires has the Good Year name...but not Eagle, the rear slicks is just Good Year and the fronts says Good Year Frontrunner.

It's most likely exactly the same as the Reher Morrison re-issue from 2014 with different decals, so it's not the same as the first issue from 1984. The tooling was modified slightly first to do the Tony Foti LAPD Camaro in 1991, then a bit more to do the Jerry Eckman Pennzoil and Rickie Smith STP Pontiac Firebird Pro Stock kits also in 1991, and later even more to do the Warren Johnson GM Goodwrench/Superman and Mark Pawuk Summit Pontiac Firebird Pro Stock kits in 1999. The floorboard is changed to fit the newer swoopy Pontiac body, the rollcage is changed to do the "funny car cage" around the driver wich were in the later issues but the whole cage is not in the kit now as it was not used in 1982-83, and some of the engine parts are different from the 1984 issue.

This thread was started 2009 and I bought mine back when this kit was first issued back in 2009, that's the copyright date on the kit box and instructions I have. But this kit has been reissued at least a couple of times since then, 2011 and 2016, and for some reason they did new instructions for it wich was more wrong than the original ones was...who knows why.

The Team Chimera truck is the transporter truck for the show/race truck Chimera designed by Jan Richter and built by Sven-Erik "Svempa" Bergendahl from Stockholm Sweden, Italeri also did the limited edition Dark Diamond, Black Amber and Blue Shark from the Svempa/Richter design team. Just for information, the engine in this kit is not right as it's the old 14.2 litre displacement DS14 wich originally came in the Scania 140 series in 1969, Italeri has used this engine since the first Scania truck kit they made back in the 80's, it was correct back then but even tho' it's modified some it's definately not correct for the R730. Scania replaced the DS14 with the DC16 in 2002, first with 15.6 litre displacement but later increased to 16.4 litre wich the 730 is, and even if it still is a V8 it looks quite different. Picture of the old DS14. Picture of the later correct DC16 wich should have been in the kit...and all Italeri Scania kits with V8 since 2002.

My version of the 5 Window Coupe from 2009 the instructions show the cylinder heads the correct way except in one picture where passenger side of the engine is shown for the oil filter placement, in that picture the head is drawn upside down. But I really never trust instructions myself as they often can be confusing and sometimes wrong as in this case, if you examine the parts and how they are supposed to go together and do some test fitting you will see right away that something is wrong and the parts woun't fit as descrbed. The valve covers has locator pins on the underside and the heads has the corresponding holes for these pins if you turn them the right side up as you have done in your first pic, the heads also has locator tabs that fits into the cavities in the deck surface of the block, so it's quite obvious wich way the heads should be. If you are picky the oil pan is also the wrong way as the deep part of the oil pan on the first generation Hemi is at the rear.

I don't really know where they got it from as it's not correct to the real 1966 engine. The '69 Mustang is a old MPC kit and the '66 Mustang HT kit has allways been AMT and it's funny that these two kits were so similar in construction...and both are wrong. Some of the 1964½ Mustang with the 260 had the oil filler tube but there were 260 Mustangs without the tube also as they apparently came both ways. It may have had to do with where they were sold, the '64 Fairlane I had came from California and was built in November 1963 at the San Jose plant, the 289 engine in it had a PCV valve in the passenger side valve cover and a breather in the driver side valve cover where you filled the oil, and California was early with emission control.

The metric system is based on millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter and kilometer and everything is evenly multiplied or divided with 10, 100, 1000 to get a larger or smaller unit of measurement, so it really doesnt matter that much what scale you are working with if you use metric. If any scale would be very easy to do in metric it would be even scales, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200 1:250, 1:500 and so on and construction blueprints are often in these scales, for example 1 millimeter in 1:50th scale would be 50 millimeters (5 centimeters) in the real world. But it works well with any scale, 1 milimeter in 1:24th scale is 24 millimeters in 1:1, 1 millimeter in 1:25th scale is 25 millimeters, and the other way around.

Very very nice indeed.