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The placing of the linkage isn't that important as you can overcome that problem quite easily if it's on the wrong side. Early Ford cars has the linkage on the passenger side, both on the 4 cylinder and the V8, same for the dual carb setup on the FE 427 as the Holley 4160 series carbs are mounted backwards so the distributor will fit, I can list more examples where the linkage not are on the drivers side but I stop here.

Here is a picture of the original issue Hideout Truck from 1981-82. The Tyrone Malone Bandag Bandit and Hideout Truck kits were only issued once so they are quite rare and expensive nowadays. The Hideout Truck is pretty much the same as the Papa Truck except for the decals and boxart so it would be easy to reissue. The Bandag Bandit on the other hand is a bit different to the Super Boss as it has a different hood and wing, the tail lights and rear panel are also different as well as the twin turbo setup on the 12V-71 engine and the exhaust pipes, the rest is pretty much the same, so hopefully Round2 will find the tool inserts for the Bandit and reissue both of these trucks soon.

You have to have the carbs backwards on the FE when you have dual carbs, otherwise you will not have any room for the distributor. The 4160 carbs have the metering block on the premium side and not on the secondary so the carbs are shorter if you turn them so the secondary ports points forward, Ford did a special throttle bell crank and axle to switch sides wich goes between the first and second carb to get it to work. A friend of mine put this setup on his 1964 390 Galaxie last winter.

Nice pictures and please post more if you have them. 1983 seems about right, The Boss Truck Of America (the truck in the first 3 pics) got this paint scheme about that time. Then you have the Super Boss, Smokey Bear Corvette and Hideout Truck wich was the transporter for the Bandag Bandit. In the second pic you can see the Papa Truck and Mama Truck transporters at the left of the Boss Truck, and a glimpse of the Bandag Bandit hood and wing directly in front of it, behind the Bandit is a glimpse of the Bandag Crew trailer, on the last pic with the Hideout Truck to the left you can also see the front of the Black Gold Chevy Pickup and the Old No 8 KW K100 truck wich pulled the Bandag Crew trailer. Tyrone Malone sold the AMT kits and Matchbox toys of his trucks at the shows together with some apparel and other things and the souvenir trailer was pulled by the Papa Truck.

For modelbuilding it doesn't matter what size the carb has, a 4150 series 650, 750, 780, 850 cfm looks the same on the outside, the differences are mostly internal. Of course there are visible differences when it comes to what type of choke it has, if it's a double pumper, vacuum secondary stage and so on. In this particular case I would go with the FMR-092 as it has the correct LeMans float bowls, and there are two carbs in a set so you can do two cars. The FMR-090 or FMR-093 is not that wrong either as they are good replacements for the LeMans bowl carbs. The LeMans bowls were Holley's first version of center hung float bowls wich are better for road course use than the side hung floats, and they were later replaced with the "Catheral" style bowls wich are easier to adjust the float level on as you do it from the outside without taking the carb appart, on the carb with LeMans bowls you have to take the bowls off and bend the float arms to adjust them.

Yes I do, As RandyD allready mentioned, Joseph at Fireball Modelworks has the best looking carburetors right now, he even have a set with the LeMans float bowls if you want that. http://www.fireballmodels.info/auto_main.html Here is his 4150 with vacuum secondarys. http://www.fireballmodels.info/images/FMR-090.jpg Here is his 4160 with vacuum seconcarys, http://www.fireballmodels.info/images/FMR-091.jpg Here is his 4150 with LeMans float bowls and vacuum secondarys, http://www.fireballmodels.info/images/FMR-092.jpg His 4150 Double Pumper, mechanical secondarys, http://www.fireballmodels.info/images/FMR-093.jpg His generic 4160 with electrical choke and vacuum secondarys, http://www.fireballmodels.info/images/FMR-094.jpg He made suggestions to what they are for but they will work fine with the Ford FE engine or any other for that matter.

Moroso also has many silvergray pans, other aftermarket pans such as Canton, Milodon, Weiand and others are also anodized in silvergray or goldish color, painted black, cast aluminum, chromed and so on. For what color to paint the oil pans depends on what I'm building. If the model is a factory stock showroom car the oil pan gets the same color as the rest of the engine if it's so on the car I'm replicating. If the model I'm doing is a customized car I can go with chrome, gold, silver or whatever I like as it's no rules there. If it's a race car I mostly go with a color the aftermarket pan has as most race cars don't use OEM pans, look for what's available on the aftermarket for the engine you are doing.

Looking good.

These are way too large for a street car, they are MSD Pro Mag magnetos used in the Alcohol, and Nitro classes. Angled boots are not that hard to make, here is a explanation on how to make them.

Very nice lineup. But I'm a little curious about the reason for using Holley Dominators for these builds. Because I have never seen any Cobras with Holley Dominators, just the 4150 style (center hung floats) for single carburetor (some with the LeMans float bowls) and 4160 (side hung floats) for dual mount carburetors. Holley debuted the 4500 Dominator carburetor late 1968 early 1969 for Ford to use in NASCAR and Trans Am and it was later released to the public, so there were none before that.

Nice job!

It's probably more politically correct to use Coca Cola than to use Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Schlitz and Pabst as they did in the 70's for some of the AMT trucks and trailers.

Nice and neat.

Coming along nicely.

I agree with the Hasegawa kit, I have it and it's nice.

Yes it does.

I see you got your answer, but it's only the Revell snap kit W900 that's available with that type of Aerodyne sleeper box in 1:25th scale, the closest AMT has is the T600 but it's a newer version Studio Sleeper box, the AMT W925 only has the short 36 inch sleeper box.

Auslowe has, Kit Form Services (KFS) has, American Industrial Truck Models (AITM) has.

Possibly...the Coca Cola license is probably cheaper than Caterpillar. I think the licensing thing has blown out of proportion, manufacturers are so keen about getting out as much money as possible from the brand but they are blind to the fact that they get "free adverticing" from a hobby like this, and that has a value much like the "product placing" they do in movies and TV productions where they give out free stuff to be seen in plain view. How many here have learned about products and what they are from this hobby...I know I have...everyone know Good Year and Firestone don't make donuts, no they make tires...just an example. Of course they want to protect their brand and should do so, but in this case the name is not used to increase the sales...it's a model of the thing originally made a long time ago for crying out loud, so one think they could be a bit easier on the licensing for this kind of thing. Ok, enough ranting.

Interesting. I just replied to your engine question in the Truck Stop section.

Here is a picture of how the Cat 3406 water to air aftercooler looks (the grey part). And here is an example of how an air to air aftercooler can look like. Many call this setup intercooler, both are the same thing as they cool the charged air. To straighten out the questionmarks about this, The Inter prefix in the device name originates from historic compressor designs. In the past, aircraft engines were built with Charge Air Coolers that were installed between multiple stages of supercharging, thus the designation of Inter. Likewise, the After prefix refers to cooler placed at the end of supercharging chain, so for a truck aftercooler is more correct.

Send them an email with what you want and they will get back to you with total, and you can pay with Paypal.

Money...that's the basic reason for the whole thing with licensing. Caterpillar license out to allmost everything from toys and models to phones, boots and clothes and everyone has to pay them to use their name and logos...and Caterpillar is known to protect the brand hard.

They may be light and good in every way but I don't like the look with super singles on a tractor, I think it looks cheap, a real truck should have dual wheels.

The latest reissue from the early 2000's didn't have the Caterpillar name either most likely because AMT didn't want to pay the licensing to Caterpillar to use the name.