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Very nice work Jarda.

Yes it will be large, I have some of the 1:6th scale engines and they are quite big.

Ford often had blue engines and even the Cat 1145 and 1160 (called V-175 and V-225 in Ford) wich is in the LN 8000 "Louisville" AMT kit was painted blue in Ford truck and many other truck manufacturers had "their own" engine color, Kenworth and Peterbilt had white engines, some others had red engines and so on. Detroit Diesel were Alpine Green, Silver and Dark Bluegreen from the factory, Cat Yellow, Cummins Beige, Dark Grey, Black, and Red, International Dark Blue.

There are no 12V-92 engines available in our scales so 12V-71 are the only way to go if you want one.

The Liberty Classics metal/plastic engines (some of them also released by Revell as unassembled kits) are 1:6th scale. They had both a blown Dodge/Plymouth 426 Hemi and a blown Ford 427 SOHC old style Top Fuel engine they will work fine for older cars. I bought both back when they were first released some years ago but they can't be that hard to find as I think they still make them. Here are a few I found on ebay right now. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-Top-Fuel-Dragster-Engine-Replica-1-6th-Scale-Die-Cast-Automotive-Accessory-/331894277602?hash=item4d4670c5e2:g:ZUkAAOSwXeJXctPf http://www.ebay.com/itm/Liberty-Classics-Hemi-Top-Fuel-Dragster-Engine-Replica-1-6th-Scale-Die-Cast-/322333502403?hash=item4b0c92ebc3:g:KUkAAOSwo4pYMErT

Jamie at Mo'luminum has a 12V71 engine, http://moluminum.com/

Very nice model KJ.looks almost real.

I owned a 1964 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe for 12 years (it's sold now and replaced with a 1963½ Galaxie 500 XL) so I go by my own experience...the construction of the Fairlane/Meteor chassis is similar to the Falcon but definately not the same as almost everything looks different on the Fairlane and very few parts fits between the Fairlane and the Falcon based cars. So it depends on how accurate you want your model to be, if you want to be accurate you should not use a 1962-65 Fairlane/62-63 Meteor chassis for the Comet.

Just keep in mind that the early to mid 1960's Comet and the 1962-65 Farilane doesn't use the same chassis, the Comet was built on a Falcon based chassis same as the Mustang, Mercury Cougar, later 66 forward Fairlanes and Torinos. The 1962-65 Fairlane only shares the chassis with the 1962-63 Mercury Meteor so no other FoMoCo car has the same chassis. The upcoming 65 Comet are a better choice or modify one of the other Falcon based chassis to fit.

Scale Equipment Ltd also has Rally II wheels, I bought a couple of sets quite a while ago from them, the trim rings are plated and they look good. http://www.seltd.net/ez-catalog/X344897/2

Keep an eye in the mirror, this truck will soon be coming in the "Monfort Lane".

Here are a couple of pics on the front end setup on the early SOHC Mustangs.

Great work Chris. I have done injector lines hand bent from stainless wire on a 1:24th model, both under the bird catcher and blower, and that was pretty hard to get to look right, as it was a much smaller model it wasn't as detailed as yours.

1973-74ish.

You're welcome.

I have three, one 44 foot goose neck, one 38 foot goose neck and one 21 foot tag along, but none are built. But they looks to be good quality and quite easy to build..

You are not far off there Dave. The Pro Stock cars evolved away from the production cars about that time, after that only parts of the body shell was from a production car and today the Pro Stock bodies are very far away from the production cars, they are longer, narrower and lower and the shape is altered so they are completely different from the road going cars they are supposed to be.

This engine was used i several Jo-Han Chrysler 300 kits, the 63, 66, 67 and 68 at least.

These AFB's are the best I have seen so far. Unfortunately the kit manufacturers doesn't provide good carburetor detailing with a few exceptions, and mostly that's okay for models where the carburetor is covered by an aircleaner, but for models with exposed carbs we need better ones than what's available in the kits. I agree with the request of the Holley 4150 series carbs with the LeMans float bowls, we really need these for several subjects, as well as good high detail Holley 4160 series carbs for the 68 Hemi Dart's and Barracuda's.

Nice work!

You can find lots of pictures of Tyrone Malone's trucks here: https://www.facebook.com/Tyrone-Malone-and-the-Bandag-diesel-racing-team-189062841121878/ And Here: http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/tyrone_malone/ They the best places to find reference photos of Malone's trucks, both sites are from the same man, Ken Harris, who worked for Malone and drove the Papa Truck transporter in the European Tour back in 1989. Just keep in mind that there has been four versions of the Super Boss with slightly different paint schemes, The first Thermo King version from 1974-78, the first Bandag version from 1979-88, the later Bandag version from 1989 and forward and finally the latest version as the truck was repainted again by the current owner Gary Ries, the decals supplied in the kit are for the first and second versions up to 1988. Here are a couple of engine pics from those sites.

Yes the Super Boss and the Bandag Bandit has rear torsion bar suspension and the model kits are quite accurate as Brian said, the door handles was changed to paddle latch 1972 and the vent windows got smaller at the same time so they are correct for the Super Boss as it's supposed to be a 1974. The Bandag Bandit wich is a 1978 model today has an older cab with the older style door handles and larger vent windows as the truck was damaged in a fire at Malones shop, before the fire it had the later cab and a different interrior. The Super Boss as well as the Bandag Bandit was ordered as "glider kits" with frame, front axle, hood and cab, the rest was put together by Malone and his crew.

Model Car Garage in their usual fashion includes script emblems for every available model of the car the detail set are for, you also have the emblems for Ranch Wagon, Country Sedan and Country Squire and AMT has never done them in kit form. But the MCG sets can be adapted for other kit makers than stated, I have used a detail set meant for the Revell 55 Chevy on an AMT kit and it worked well with a couple of small modifications.

The Revell AG KW K100 kits are exactly the same except for the roof, so the roof spoiler are in the flat top kits too.

Nice work Michel.