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Excellent work!!

Here are some other things I would like to see. I like to build old race cars from the early to mid 60's and these decals aren't that plentiful on the market and they are in very few kits. Valve cover decals for the Dodge 413 and 426 Max Wedge cars. Valve cover decals for Plymouth 413 and 426 Max Wedge cars. Air cleaner decal for the Max Wedge and Hemi cars with dual carburetors. Valve cover decals for Ford High Performance engines. I would buy several sets if they were available.

I saw a UK made car program where the guy called even fenders for a car Mud Guards.

The shipping can be quite steep sometimes, I don't know why. But the thing that annoy me the most is the "Global Shipping Program" ebay started with a while back, if you buy a thing for lets say $5.00 on ebay the shipping cost are 6 to 8 times the value of the item at around $30.00-$40.00 with this #¤&¤ thing, the parcel allways goes by the more expensive Priority Mail and all import charges are included...even tho' I usually don't have to pay any import charges for an item for that low price...pretty annoying if you ask me. If you send the same thing with USPS First Class Mail International the shipping is about half or even less...and most of the things passes customs without any charge.

US Mud Flap=UK Mud Guard

All the Galaxie 500 XL's came with bucket seats but they weren't the lightweight Bostrom seats, the XL also have center console. The 427 was on the option list from mid year 1963 on all Galaxies as Q and R-code (Q 1X4bbl 410 hp and R 2X4 bbl 425 hp), not just the Lightweights, before that the top high performance option was the B and G-code 406 (B 1X4bbl 385 hp and G 3X2 bbl 405 hp).

Yes, after what I've heard Fender used Ford colors and maybe even other car makes colors on their guitars. I'm not 100% sure and I can check, after all we have "Guitars the Museum" here in my home town with one of the largest guitar collections in the world and I know the owners.

No, the Papa Truck model kit have have never had anything else than the 10-hole Alcoa's and that goes for the Hideout Truck too, the Truck Mate 5-hole wheels Ben shows he has done the master for.

I have one more... Correct looking 67-68 Shelby 10-spoke wheels...everything there has been available so far has been wrong.

I have bought a couple of sets through Ben and one directly from Jamie and they are very nice, they are not on the Moluminum page but email him and ask...that's what I did. And no they are not plated, that you have to do yourself.

Nice work!!

Here you go (curtesy of public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale)

Okay I understand. It's not wrong to do one, so we get more to choose from.

Even tho' I have all the old issues allready I will still get all of them when they come out.

It should not be a problem as KJ says, The W925/K125 designation stands for Torsion Bar Suspension and that's what the kit originally had, AMT changed to Walking Beam later but the frame rails are the same. They should also have changed the designation to W923 for the model to be correct when they changed the suspension, but left the W925...I don't know exactly when they changed the suspension but I know it was after the T559 KW Challege Transit Mixer and before the T560 Movin On and T511 Alaskan Hauler. Apparently also the K123 originally had Torsion Bar suspension but that was also changed to the Walking Beam sometime...the K123 has the right designation now tho'.

Doesn't AMT have a good Mopar LA engine allready, the one in the 71 Duster is pretty nice.

If they do the Bandag Bandit race truck they will for sure do it's hauler Hideout Truck. The Papa Truck and Hideout Truck kits are exactly the same except for the decals.

-Rear seat pattern decal for 1964 Ford Thunderbolt.

Nice work Walter.

Well the Hemi based Poly Head engines were not from the "A" family, they were Hemi blocks with single rocker shaft polysferic heads to make them cheaper than the Hemi's. The Chrysler Spitfire (1955-58) 301-331-354 cu in were based on the Low Deck 331-354 Hemi, there were no poly-head version of the later Raised Deck 392 Hemi as you said. The Dodge Red Ram (1955-56) 241-259-270-315-325 cu in were based on the 241-325 Hemi, they did Poly Head engines both of the Low Deck 241-270 and the raised deck 315-325. The Plymouth Hyfire (1955-56) 241-259 cu in were also based on the Dodge 241-270 Low Deck Hemi's, No Poly Head engines were based on the DeSoto 276-291-330-341-345 cu in Hemi, the few DeSoto's with Poly Head engines had Dodge Hemi based engines. The Polysferical Head (1956-67) 277-301-303-313-318-326 cu in was the "A" family engine and shares no parts with the older Poly Head and Hemi engines and was replaced with the "LA" and "B/RB" allthough they were manufactured simultaneously for a while.

Here is your picture Alan.

Most likely, the Papa Truck is due for release in early January. The wheels in the kit are for the Papa Truck incorrect 10 hole tubeless Alcoa's, the real truck had Truck Mate 5-hole chromed split wheels and later 2-hole chromed tubeless Budds. The rear suspension is also incorrect for the Papa Truck, the kit has the 8-bag KW Air Glide100 and the real truck had KW Torsion Bar suspension.

You know your race cars, great build.

This will be great as usual.

I believe the engine in the old AMT 29 Roadster is a bit too large for a Dodge Hemi, same as the engine in the more recent AMT Ala Kart kit is slightly too small for a Dodge Hemi. if the difference between the real engines is 2 inches it's 2 mm in 1:25th scale, and 3 inches is 3 mm in 1:25th scale so it's quite noticable. A Dodge Hemi in real life is a lot smaller physically than a 392 Hemi wich is what's in the AMT 57 Chrysler 300C (57 was the first year for the raised deck 392), so I wouldn't use the Chrysler 392 Hemi to replicate a Dodge Hemi based Poly Head engine as it will be too large. The Dodge Hemi's have the smallest bore spacing (center to center of the cylinders) of any hemi engine at 4.1875" and they do not share any major dimensions or components with the larger Chrysler and DeSoto hemi engines. The Chrysler Hemi has 4.5625" bore spacing so it's 0.375" difference in bore spacing between the Chrysler and the Dodge, there wasn't any Poly Head based on the DeSoto Hemi so they are not relevant in this case. The Dodge Hemi has 9.29" deck height for the low deck 241-270 and 10.38" for the raised deck 315-325 and Chrysler has 10.32" for the low deck 331-354 and 10.87" for the raised deck 392, it's nearly ½ an inch difference in deck height between the raised deck Dodge and the raised deck Chrysler, and over 1 ½" difference between the low deck Dodge and the raised deck 392 Chrysler. There were no Poly Head engine based on the raised deck 392 either, just the low deck 331-354 blocks, Dodge on the other hand had Poly Head engines based on both the low deck and raised deck blocks from 1955 to 58 used both in Dodge, Plymouth and DeSoto cars.