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  1. A friend of mine had a 460 in a 1988 Foxbody Mustang he raced in Super Gas for some years and it fitted well, the engine is in his Super Comp Dragster now. I help him as a mechanic and I have one observation...the Ford engines have the oil pump at the front driven by the distributor so the oil pan needs a small sump at the front for the pump and a larger at the rear, the oil pan for this application looks like this and it's what we used in his car.
  2. I don't believe battery powered re-chargable electric cars is the total solution of the problem as many seems to think. There are too many disadvantages with them, relatively short range on one charge, re-charging time too long, heavy very expensive batterys that have to be changed every 5 or so years, you have to use a heater in the winter time wich burn some kind of fuel as an electric heater will shorten the range, the batterys are not safe for the invironment either to produce or dispose of, the electric distribution net will be overloaded when everybody re-charges their vehicles at the same time after work and so on...and how are the electricity to re-charge the batterys produced, coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas...because all the wind turbines, solar powered stations and hydro electric stations in the World will not be enough by far...that's a food for thought. Yes I'm guessing that we are going to drive electric cars in the future...but not with batterys, just a fuel cell that's easy and fast to renew (read re-fuel) so it's much like the gas or diesel car we use today, and you will get heat in the car in winter time from the process..and the only exhaust from the fuel cell is water vapour (steam). The problem is how to produce the Hydrogen for the fuel cell inexpensively and how to contain it in the cars safely...but I belive it will come.
  3. Finally...a Shelby 10-spoke wheels that look right...I have to get myself a few sets. Great work as usual.
  4. Here is another one in resin, looks like the one from the old Revell Model T's. http://www.b-n-lresins.com/shoppingopencart/Aftermarket-resin-cast-1-24-1-25-scale-model-model-Ford-BandM-C4-Transmission
  5. I really feel with you Jarda. I hope you can rescue this build and be able to finish it, it was so promising.
  6. I'm looking forward to follow your progress Jarda.
  7. I have pictures of at least 4 versions of the Bandit including a few of an early Thermo King version, they are as you say black and the early ones the paint have a blueish shine.
  8. Yes they are, but they can of course be changed...but I would leave it alone and do the truck as you intended to do. The present owner Gary Reis did a lot of modifications to the Super Boss after he got it, he repainted the truck, removed the chromed bump stops for the front axle, added front brakes and larger front wheels, changed the wheels to Alcoa aluminum 10-hole wheels instead of the Truck Mate 5-hole wheels it originally had (on Malone's last version the rear wheels was 2-hole Budds tho'), changed the steering system and removed the large slave cylinder under the battery box, moved the brake chutes up to the rear body panel, redid the interrior, added a fuel cell and for sure lots of other things, Malone took off the wheelie bars himself as the last version he had didn't have them. The Bandag Bandit is on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, it's left alone and is pretty much as the last version Malone had except for the missing rear wing, the cab was changed to an earlier pre-72 style cab with regular door handles after the shop fire when the truck got damaged and the interrior was changed to an all black one at the same time, before it was blue, white and yellow. So the Bandit is more like the Super Boss was before all the changes.
  9. I was meaning to answer to this post when you posted it but forgot about it, so I might be a little late. Like Bandag Bandit the Super Boss did not have front brakes, the brake drums would not fit inside the small front rims Malone used on the Boss and Bandit, as you can see on your (now gone) first picture the inside on those wheels are just slightly larger than the bolt circle on the hub. So the front brakes the Boss has now is a later add on most likely done by Gary Ries after he got the truck. I have gone through all my reference pictures of the Super Boss and there are no brake air lines nor air brake chambers at the front wheels on any of the pictures from the Malone era, the front brakes first appeared on the Gary Ries version of the truck and he use larger front wheels to fit the brake drums. The Super Boss truck (and the Bandag Bandit) allways had the small front wheels when Malone had it and the brakeless front made it a lot easier to do the 180 degree turns Malone was famous for in his shows.
  10. The largest wrecker forum I know of http://tow411.yuku.com has lots of information on different style wreckers, browse around and you will get answers to allmost everything you want to know. Here you can see how a sliding rotator is built up without the side cabinets, the rotator unit is clamped on and gliding on top of the beams and is actuated with a horisontal hydraulic cylinder to push it back and pull it forward. There are most likely teflon type pads between the rotator unit and the beams and some grease to prevent it from seizing. More here: http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/140817/The-All-NEW-Redesigned-Metro-RTR50SL#.WXTs9oiLTGg The front axles in a twin steer are actuated with rods and you can have a power steering cylinder or power steering box to get the motion from the steering wheel to the idler arm, here is a picture of one configuration of twin steer front axle setup. The lower rod goes to the first steer axle and the rod at the upper right goes to the second steer axle. KFS has a coupe of twin steer setups available that could work if you don't want to build your own. As for the wide high flotation front tires and rims, as far as I know the only kits with them are the Revell AG Can-Do, Will-Do and Bill Signs Peterbilt 359 Clydes II Tractor, and I have seen them for sale separate at ebay from time to time, but there are wide front rims available on the after market too, both Auslowe and KFS have that type of wheels and tires. The Moebius wheels and tires look good but they don't have any wide high flotation wheels at all. Many truck manufacturers offers tri-drive chassis so in a four rear axle setup you can have three driven axles and one lift up pusher axle in front of them or two drive axles and one or two lift up pusher axles or one pusher and one tag axle, so it's up to you.
  11. I did try to build this kit in my teens back in the 80's and used some of the decals, it was beyond my capabilities back then so I did not finish it...I still have the left over parts in my stash somewhere. As I remember the decals was translucent and didn't cover well, especially on the black hood, so it would maybe have worked better if they were doubled up
  12. You're welcome. Of course you can convert the KW wrecker to a tri-axle and to a rotator if you want to, everything is possible with a little work. Here are links to the instructions for both the Can-Do / Will-Do and the KW Wreckers and you can compare them. Can-Do / Will-Do Kenworth W900 Wrecker
  13. I allready have two so I'm good for now.
  14. The Can-Do and the recent re-issue of the Can-Do wich got the name Will-Do Peterbilt Rotator Wreckers are not that hard to find, they are on ebay most of the time...but they are expensive. Here is one, Will-Do Rotator Wrecker ...as I said...they are expensive...so it depends on how much you want one. I have also seen just the rotator wrecker body listed there from time to time but not often. Of course you can scratchbuild anything you want with lots of work, but the wrecker unit on the Revell AG Kenworth is totally different from the Can-Do / Will-Do unit so it might be better to start from scratch. The Revell AG Kenworth Wrecker are getting more and more expensive too as they only did a short run when it was re-issued last, and they are slowly creeping up towards the $100 mark.
  15. I wouldn't bother, PB just killed themselves off with this deal and it's just a matter of time before they are gone. I used a free account and I haven't had any issues until now, but I will not pay 400 bucks to be able to link my pictures to forums, Fotki are a lot cheaper for the same service.
  16. I have seen a resin dragster body on ebay with the canopy, it was also from Australia but I don't know who did it. Here is a link, http://www.ebay.com/itm/RESIN-NEW-STYLE-TOP-FUEL-BODY-1-25-SCALE-/222494757626?hash=item33cdb892fa:g:arQAAOSw7XZXhJdu
  17. I believe the AMT C600 (they are in fact C800's) kits comes in three different wheel bases and the tractor with the fifth wheel is the shortest, the stake bed has a longer wheel base than the tractor but is shorter than the box truck wich has the longest wheel base.
  18. No, the Can-Do and Will-Do Peterbilt 359 kits are the only ones I know of with rotator boom wrecker bodys, Revell AG have another wrecker on a Kenworth W900 but it's not a rotator.
  19. Very nice, I really like it.
  20. I hope you didn't take my post as critisism of your work because it wasn't meant to be, your work is outstanding as usual when you do something, and I know how hard it is to find good references when you need them, especially on this subject. But if it is something you wonder about regarding the Malone trucks I have done research on them since I first got a computer as I have allways liked them, and I have saved everything I have found so far, so I will for sure try to help out if I can. As I said in my earlier post, most of the interior will not be that visible when the model is finished as it's all black, and the windows are quite small, so I think you should leave it as it is and not destroy anything.
  21. Nice work. There are not many pictures of the early versions of the Super Boss interior, but the gauges on the dashboard looked a little different on the versions the kit is supposed to replicate wich are the first two, the dash board pictures in your last post are from the Gary Ries version as it looks today. I looked through my references and here are a couple of pictures of how the dash looked in the first two versions and there has been some additions of gauges since then, and the top of the dash has tuck n' roll upholsery, not the diamond pattern it has today. Another picture where you can see the dash. The headliner as it looks today. I don't have a good picture of the headliner on the early versions but here is one where you can see that the panel in front of the roll bar doesn't have the diamond style upholstery it has today, it's more like tuck n' roll like the top of the dash on my first picture. But I believe the headliner in the early versions would have looked something like the picture above as I don't think the whole thing was diamond pattern all over. Better pictures where you can see the differences on the door panels, the diamond pattern goes up higher on the early versions than it does today. Last version as it looks today so the interior must have been re-upholstered sometime late in the trucks life...maybe even after Malone passed away. But, this is not that important as you really can't see much of the interior when the model is done, I just wanted to show the differences between the versions as I have found out in my researches. When it comes to the Bandag Bandit the differences are more noticable as the whole cab and the colors of the interior are very different between the different versions of the truck.
  22. It's time to "kick the bucket" and look elsewere.
  23. I have never built a car or truck model without an engine and I don't think I ever will as I like doing and detailing them, and I do show them off in the display case. I think I only have bought one kit that doesn't have an engine in it, it's the Italeri Volvo VN 780 wich doesn't come with one, but I bought a resin engine and transmission to put in when the time comes to build it
  24. Nice start Jarda. As you said the Super Boss went through some changes over the years and so didn the others of Malone's trucks, but the recent re-issue of the Super Boss model kit represents the first two versions of the truck. The first version was the 1974ish to 1978 version with Thermo King Diesel Racing Team on the doors, and the second version was the 1979-1988 version with Bandag Diesel Racing Team on the doors, they are quite similar except for some small things, for example the Bandag version had maps on the hood sides and Super Boss AMT Hobby Kit on the side plates of the rear wing wich the Thermo King version didn't have. The colors was pretty much the same between the two versions and so was the interior.
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