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Sorry to dig this old thread up but it has just become actual again. I just read on the Tyrone Malone And The Bandag Diesel Racing team Facebook site that Round 2 has confirmed the Kenworth W900 Super Boss race truck is to be released sometime in April and potentially the K100 Papa Truck later in the year, like August or something like that. Here is a copy from the facebook page posted 11 hours ago. ""It is with great pleasure that I can say that I have been given permission to let you all know that Round 2 Models will be releasing the Super Boss as a Retro Deluxe kit. The kit will be released as AMT930 with a tentative release date of April 2016. The molds have been verified for everything except the tires which have not been found. Round 2 made the decision to make new tire molds for the kit however they have been changed to smooth sidewalls with the white lettering tampo printed on. The decal sheet is also being expanded to include both versions that AMT originally released, the Thermo King version which represents 1976-78 and the Bandag version which represents 1979-1988. Papa Truck is tentatively scheduled for release in August 2016 as kit AMT932, however all of the molds for Papa have not been 100% verified yet. I have been a fan of Super Boss since I first read about the truck in a magazine in 1976 before it had even set its land speed record at Bonneville and have spent years studying everying I can about Super Boss and Papa truck. Special thanks go to Tim Ahlborn for putting me in touch with Round 2 to assist them with this project, to Ken Harris for use of his extensive photo collection and knowledge of the truck and to current owner Gary Ries for allowing me to see the truck in person and take pictures of how the truck is now. Bandag Bandit and Hideout Truck are also being considered for future release by Round 2, but will not be released in 2016. ---Aaron Hartley""

Nice, I love Fuel Altereds.

Another great build.

Great looking Fuel Altered!

The recent issue California Hauler can only be built as a day cab with what's in the kit as no sleeper is included. I believe you could get any wheel base you wanted but I pretty sure Peterbilt did offer some standard wheel base legths also, I have seen wheel bases from 146 inches to 185½ inches for 351's in a Peterbilt brochure somewhere.

Nice build Walter, I hope the solid black version comes out as good as this one.

There are more. Both first release Thunderbolt's were Hot Rod issues (Tasca and Russ Davis), 34 Ford Coupe, several 3 kit issues was in Hot Rod labeled boxes, the 69 Mustang Super Cobra Jet, 80's Mustang Street Machine, 78-79 Camaro Street Machine, 82ish Camaro Pro Street, 84ish Corvette Street Machine, Several Big Daddy Roth cars, McEwen Funny Car and Dragster kit, the old tool 41 Willys Coupe, and certainly some more that I have forgotten about. ,

Round 2 apperantly don't have the tooling for the farm tractors. But I don't recall any International tractor with stars and stripes paint scheme, I have only seen the Massey Ferguson in that scheme as well as in a regular paint scheme.

I built an tracked excavator in 1:24-25ish scale once in the mid 70's...unfortunately I threw it away as it was quite poorly built (read gluebomb) as my skills wasn't that good at the time, I don't know the manufacturer of the kit but it could have been Asian or something like that...the kit was molded in orange so it could have been a Hitachi or similar...I don't remember exactly as it was around 40 years ago and I have never seen this kit since. That one I would like to have again as it would have been a nice load for a lowboy trailer.

The Wandergriff Soff Seal 57 Chevy was heavliy modified too and quite far from a stock body as it's quite a bit smaller, but it was not modified as much as the Roofer's Toy car, the top might be chopped more, the rear fenders are a bit higher, the front fenders are slightly longer and it's a bit more wedge shaped than the Wandergriff car done by Revell. Wandergriff had a more radical bodied 57 Chevy later. There is something with the FC body proportions that's bugging me, the roof looks to be too far back and the same goes for the front wheel openings, the roof is also too high and the front is too long, so it has to be modified quite a bit to look like the Roofer's Toy car, but a combination of the two might be the way to go.

This is what I have found out about the Kenworth numbering system used in the 50's 60's and 70's: 521, 821 and 921 is Single Drive Spring, Torsion or Air Ride Suspensions. 522, K122 and W922 is "Monkey Motion" Tag Axle or other Tag setup Suspensions. 523, K123 and W923 is Dual Drive Walking Beam (Timken or Hendrickson) or Air Ride Suspensions. 524, K124 and W924 is Dual Drive Larger Capacity Timken or Big Six suspensions. 525, 825, K125 and W925 is Dual Drive Torsion Bar suspension. I found this information on the ATHS Forums a while ago.

There are not much to choose from if you want 50's trucks as most of the American trucks done in styrene are 60's and 70's style, so resin casters are your only option and AITM is a good place to start. http://www.aitruckmodels.com/pages/kitsparts.html And the latest complete products list http://www.aitruckmodels.com/pages/AITMcatalog4_15.pdf

The 12V-71 has the engine block casted in one piece and has a one piece crank, the heads are two straight six heads (one for each side), so it's not two V6 engines bolted together. The 12V-92 has four 3 cylinder heads two for each side), and the 16V-71 and 16V-92 has four 4 cylinder heads so they might look like there are two engines bolted together but I think the engine blocks are one piece on those too.

Nice progress!!

Well that's not really nesessary as Revell did a Pro Mod style 57 Chevy and it should not be that hard to find as it was reissued in the Street Burner series not that long ago. To modify the Mongoo$e 57 Chevy FC body to a Pro Mod body takes a lot of work.

I think it's a sad development, I prefer a printed paper copy over a digital one any day. I hate to see this one go.

Well I have all of them so that's probably an advantage. I have been a big fan of drag racing since I came in contact with it in person in 1978 and "experienced" a nitro car for the first time in my life, I was hooked and I have bought most of the drag racing inspired model kits in the last 25 years, and a few even before that.

Revell did 4 Pro Sportsman cars back in the early 1990's all based on the same basic tooling, the Soff Seal '57 Chevy driven by Rob Vandergriff, the Camaro Junction/Boyds Wheels '55 Chevy driven by Charles Carpenter, the '55 Jukebox Ford driven by Norm Wizner and the Christine '58 Plymouth driven by Richard Earle/Dave Heitz. Revell reissued the '55 and '57 Chevy's in the Street Burner series with generic decals not that long ago and the Jukebox '55 Ford is out now in the Motor Sports Series..or has been since 2013. The Pro Sportsman class was the fore runner, and evolved to the Pro Mod class we have today..

Very nice Jarda.

Yes the two-stroke diesels has a distinct sound, it's hard to tell them appart from the sound and I have difficulties hearing if it's a 6-71 8V-71 or 92, or 12V-71, they all sound very similar to me.

Well that's probably true, but the engines were most likely tweaked and modified some as the one in Super Boss produced around 1000 hp and the one in the Bandag Bandit around 1300 hp. He must have liked Detroit Diesels as the Boss Truck Of America also had a 12V-71, The Papa Truck and Hideout Truck had 8V-92T's and the Hurricane had a 6V-92T Tri-Turbo

Many make cycle fenders for rods out of the outer ring of spare tire covers, they are pretty much the right width.

You're welcome.

Here is a link to a Car Modeler article. Air Suspension http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/model_magazine_articles/car_modeller/cm03_sept_1990_truc/cmsep90p1.html Air brakes http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/model_magazine_articles/car_modeller/cm03_sept_1990_truc/cmsep90p2.html

Both the Tyrone Malone Super Boss and Bandag Bandit KW W900 race trucks has 12V-71 engines, they are not exactly the same as the twin turbo arrangement is different on them, they are the only ones I know of, but on the aftermarket there are some available, except for the ones already mentioned I know P & P Resinworks has one because I have bought them from him twice, Melbourne Model Truck Accessories had a couple V12's but I don't think they are in business anymore.