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Nice work as allways Sean...I have one of these too and one of these days... Be sure to fix the air cleaner too as most of the outside scenes truck appearently had a Mack ENDT 676 Tip Turbine engine wich has two air ducts, one for the engine itself and one for the aftercooler. As far as I know the St Louis Dumptruck truck is one of the trucks used in the movie and so is the tanker they had. They also had one surviving Duel truck but I have read that they are both sold.

Very nice, looks almost better than the real car.

Electric cars will kill the sport of auto racing completely and chase off spectators, the sound of the engines are a crucial part of the experience together with the smell of hot oil and exhaust fumes of racing gas, and it should be loud. For example Formula 1 has lost much of it's appeal since they went to quieter turbo V6 / hybrid engine packages and many I know will not go to another F1 race until the "old" sound is back. There are a series called Formula E with electric cars...I have seen a couple of races on TV but it isn't for me with the engine sounds gone.

I got my copy of Model Cars #199 November 2015 in the mail this Monday and the magazine came in a transparent plastic bag this time. The magazine is great as usual but I wasn't that impressed that they put the address lable sticker on the front of the magazine cover in the lower right corner, they could at least have put it on the back cover, or preferably on the plastic bag itself...earlier I got my magazine in an envelope and the address lable was on the envelope and not on the magazine itself.

Hopefully they did a new chassis and don't use the old 6X2 single drive tag axle chassis from the 142 series...and also a new DC16 engine.

Looks nice. Not to be picky but 'Cuda and Barracuda are Plymouth, not Dodge, Dodge's E-Body version was Challenger.

Nice result Sean.

55,000 ton...that's heavy ...could it be 55,000 lbs?

Looks great KJ.

Yes, the wheelbase differs and even the Mustang has different wheelbase than the Falcon, but as mostly everyone know the Mustang is still based on the Falcon platform. The 62-65 Fairlane and 62-63 Meteor chassis are quite different from the Falcon based cars and even tho' the whole front suspension are similar in design as the Falcon based cars close to nothing of the hardware are interchangeable...as I own a real 64 Fairlane I know that's the fact, I have learned it the hard way. Here are wheelbases for 60's Ford's and Mercury's Ford 60-65 Falcon 109.5" 66-70 Falcon 110.9" 59 Fairlane/Galaxie 118" Frame 62-64 Fairlane 115.5" Fairlane/Meteor, 65 Fairlane are 116" but still has the same chassis as the 62-64, the rear axle is ½ " further back. 66-67 Fairlane 116" Falcon based 60-68 Galaxie 119" Frame 64½-70 Mustang 108" Falcon based 71-73 Mustang 109" Falcon based 58-66 Thunderbird 113" 67-71 Thunderbird 115" Mercury 60-65 Comet 114" Falcon based 66-69 Comet 116" Falcon based 70-72 Comet 117" Comet/Maverick 67-70 Cougar 111" Falcon based 62-63 Meteor 115.5" Fairlane/Meteor As you see the Fairlane has 1.5 inch longer wheelbase than the Comet and if you want to build a correct replica you can't go by the wheelbase alone when to decide what chassis to use, the basic design of the chassis also has to be right. So if one wants to change chassis under a 1964 Mercury Comet and want to be correct a Falcon based chassis changed to the right wheelbase is a better choice than the Thunderbolt chassis as that is what the real car has. I don't exactly know where the length in wheelbase differs on the cars based on the Falcon platform, if it's the floorboards or if it's the front subframe that are of different lengths.

I have a real 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe and the '64 Comet has a different chassis than the '64 Fairlane, the Mercury Comet is based on the Falcon platform (wich also goes for the Mustang), and the 1962-65 Fairlane shares it's chassis with only the 1962-63 Mercury Meteor and it looks different than the Falcon/Mustang/Comet chassis, specially the front suspension setup and the spring towers under the hood. So a Falcon or Mustang chassis is a better choice than the Thunderbolt chassis if you want to be correct...or as Kris said, wait for the '65 Comet and you will get the correct wheelbase. The 1966 and forward Fairlane and Torino was based on the Falcon/Mustang platform tho'. Another thing, the Thunderbolt chassis and front suspension isn't right for a regular Fairlane either as that was modified to fit the big FE 427, anything larger than a 289-302 and maybe a 351W engine needs severe modifiactions to make room for it to fit in a real car.

Nice paintjob Sean.

I don't see the problem...leave it as it is.

FINALLY a stock hight body 46-48 Ford...Thank You Revell.

I asked Keith about these type of decals maybe 3-4 years ago when I ordered some other decals from him, and I even sent him pictures of originals, but nothing yet. But if more people ask about them he might do them, maybe a sheet with several each of the Ramcharger and Super Stock valve cover and air cleaner decals.

Even the 426 Race Hemi had Ramcharger 426 and Super Stock 426 decals on the valve covers 1964-65.

It came out very nive Sean!!! unfortunately I have never seen the TV show but I like the truck enough to have plans to build one myself one of these days...or years...or!?!??!?? I have the AMT K100 Aerodyne truck kit a suitable Ertl Great Dane trailer kit with a Thermo King reefer, resin two hole wheels with stemco hubs for the trailer and Modeltruckin' decals for truck and trailer.

Nice work so far Sean The red exhaust stack/air stack piece looks to be from an Ertl International Transstar II Eagle or CO 4070A. I built a Transstar II Ealge back in the 80's and remember that setup.

I don't know of any but I would like to see an aftermarket decal set with all the decals for the Dodge and Plymouth Max Wedge and Race Hemi engines, every version had it's own decals on the valve covers, and of course the yellow and red air cleaner decals would be nice to have too so one can do a correct replica of the early to mid 60's Mopar race cars. The versions for Dodge were: Ramcharger 413, Ramcharger 426, Ramcharger 426 A, Ramcharger 426-II, Ramcharger 426-III The Plymouth versions: Super Stock 413, Super Stock 426, Super Stock 426-II, Super Stock 426-III

It can most likely be done, as the side skirts are molded on to the cab you have to cut them off, cut off the front spoiler from the hood, fix the hole for the hood scoop and fix the mounting holes for the wings on the hood and you will get a long hood 1972-82 W900...the old AMT W925 was a short hood 1968-71. It's a bit harder to do a stock W900 from the Bandag Bandit as the hood on it is more customized, it has the same front spoiler as the Super Boss but it has a molded on hood scoop on top and 1977 Buick Regal headlights.

Yeah a Plum Crazy "Big Al" Allis-Chalmers engine would be nice.

The Sagehorn Movin' On truck has a Peterbilt Air Leaf suspension as far as I can tell, it would originally have had torison bars.

Yes the box on the K100 Aerodyne reads 8V-92T and that was what the Malone transporter trucks had. But I have seen pictures with the old style stamped sheet metal valve covers (both chromed and painted) and the newer cast aluminum (i think) more squarish valve covers on both 8V92's and 8V-71's...so it's more likely the year of manufacturing that decides wich valve cover the engine has....it's my speculation.

Otherwise the truck you are building could have been re-powered, not uncommon as the engines wear out.

There are as many dump body styles as they are manufacturers, no one are exactly alike. My best tip is to look at the manufacturers and decide wich one you like and suits the parts you have best...I don't have any knowledge about US dump body manufacturers tho'.