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The first model truck I built was the AMT T-540 White Freightliner Dual Drive sometime back in 77-78 at age 13-14, the next one I built was the AMT/Matchbox PK-6120 Movin' On Kenworth W925 both brush painted with Humbrol paint...I still have them, the KW is still in one piece but the Freightliner has had an accident and are in pieces. I have built more trucks after that but I don't remember the order and what years.

It depends on what Ford hemi it is...the only true hemi Ford did was the 427 SOHC with overhead cams and the "semi hemi" was the Boss 429. These engines are from two different engine familys, the 427 SOHC also called "cammer" is a FE based (332-428) and the 429 is a 385 family (429-460), the FE family has 4.63 inch bore spacing and the 385 family has 4.90 inches and these familys share nothing so you can't change the heads from one to the other in the real world. But these are models so you could probably make it work, it depends on how realistic you want to be.

Revell has included quite a lot of options within the 32 Ford tooling allready but the tooling could of course be improved and refined further. There are four engine alternatives in the six different kits done so far from the basic 32 Ford tooling, a 302/5.0 Ford with either a sigle 4bbl carb or EFI wich is in all kits except the Rat Roaster, a 392 style Hemi came with the 5W Coupe, a 59 AB Flathead came with the Tudor Sedan and a blown Chevy Small Block came with the Rat Roaster Roadster, any one of them could be put in either of the kits. Wheel options has been 5-slot mags, American Racing Torque Thrust, Wire Wheels, Steelies and ET wheels The chassis is the same for all versions tho' with hairpins added with the 5 W Coupe kit, and yes there are brake master cylinders in the kits, it's under the floor as on most of the real 32 Ford street rods built today and the improvements I would like to see for the chassis I mentioned in my earlier post.

Better yet, it has four...but it's Ford modular engines and a Ford Econoline. http://www.motortrend.com/news/10-wild-and-wacky-2015-sema-show-builds/ go down a bit and you'll find it. http://blog.amsoil.com/one-truck-fourengines-gordon-tronson-s-equadoline-turns-heads-in-amsoil-booth-at-sema

I've seen that type of truck combinations all over the Los Angeles area and I wondered what they hauled, gravel is one thing but I have also seen these dumping asphalt for road paving.

I can't understand why the CB radio is going out among truckers, at least long distance truckers, yes the cell phone is great for longer distances and one to one conversation but for shorter distances the CB must be superior, no operating cost, you don't have to dial, you don't need to know the phone number, several can be in the conversation and you hear what everyone else is saying...and if you don't want to hear, shut the thing off. For communication on the road I would prefer the CB.

I agree with the suggestions for a Revell 32 Roadster reissue, I would like to see a more old school chassis with 33-34 style X center cross members and rear transverse leaf spring instead of the weird air bags, if a quick change axle is used the chassis needs a Model A rear cross member and spring, ladder bars or split V-rods for the rear end. And an I-beam front axle to go with the hairpins as hairpins and tube axles don't go that well together, As the Rat Roaster was supposed to be all new tooling I thought Revell would do a correct replica of the real car, but as often happens with model kits...they took shortcuts and used most of the chassis from the previous 32 kits wich is totally wrong for the Rat Roaster car. The model chassis is as I said pretty much the old 32 chassis and has a 32 style center cross member, air bag/coilover suspension with ladder bars, tube front axle with hairpins, the real car has a X center cross member, K-link and coil over rear suspension, I-beam front axle and hairpins.

They still do, I believe it's only the 4014 that's missing, many other locomotives are still there at the Rail Gigants Train Museum. Union Pacific chose the 4014 for restoration as it was in the best shape of the 8 still remaining, and most likely easier to move than the others including the 2 wich are displayed indoor, sitting in the So-Cal climate since 1962 hasn't done so much damage to it as on most of the others on outside dispay.

You had a Big Boy almost at your back yard Clayton, the 4014 was on display at Pomona Fairpex Railway Museum until November 2013, it's now undergoing restoration to running condition in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I've seen it once when I was there, but just from outside the fence.

Very Nice Sean.

Nice work! I have found out this regarding the Duel truck, 4 trucks were used ,the #1 main truck was a 1956 repowered with a Cat 1674, thus the yellow horisontal air cleaner, and a Fuller 10-speed, the surviving movie truck wich was the #2 truck had a Cummins 262 hp engine with a 5-speed Spicer main transmission and 3-speed "Brownie" auxiliary transmission, both were 281 single drive with tag axle and Page & Page 60/40 suspension. #3 was a 1964 351 and used very sparingly in some extended scenes, #4 was a mid 60's 351 made up to look like the Duel truck but was not exactly in the movie but was used in an Incredible Hulk episode where some Duel movie shots were used and the "#4" truck was used for new scenes in the Hulk episode. If you don't want to do an absolutely correct replica of the movie truck this doesn't matter much tho'.

I can understand if rental trucks get stuck under low bridges as they often are driven by people who doesn't know or understand how high they are, but professional truck drivers should know what bridges or overpasses they can go under. Here in Sweden this kind of thing happens quite frequently and the drivers are often charged for reckless driving if the Police come to the site and he can get his drivers license suspended, as I said, the driver is professional and should know better.

Yes the Heller Ferguson is comming very soon if it haven't arrived yet. It's strange that the tractor molds wasn't in the deal when Round 2 bought the plasic model side from RC2, they apperantly kept the Ertl brand and sells diecast tractors from John Deere, Case/IH, New Holland and Versatile.

Nice work! I don't blame Richard for changing brands, he wanted to race a Dodge Daytona wing car in 1969 as he thought it would be unstoppable, but the Chrysler brass said "you are a Plymouth guy" and didn't give him one, so he ditched Plymouth and went to Ford who gave him the Torino Talladega for the 1969 season, Ford took the top 2 spots in the series and Petty finished 2nd after David Pearson. 1970 Plymouth came out with the Superbird and Petty was back.

One of my favourites too, this I'm gonna follow.

The Revell AG Volvo F12 kits are not related to Italeri as far as I know, I have both makes of F12's and the difference between them are quite noticable. The layout is totally different, the Italeri Volvo F12 trucks has a cab made up of several pieces that you glue together and are single drive leaf sprung 2 axle trucks in 1:24th scale, the Revell trucks has a one piece cab with separate roof and are leaf sprung dual drive 3 axle trucks in 1:25th scale, the rear suspension are of a six rod type on them. AMT/Matchbox also did a Volvo F12 kit, that's also a 2 axle single drive like the Italeri kits but in 1:25th scale.

I believe the engine parts came from the Jo-Han Ford Maverick or Mercury Comet Pro Stockers, they for sure looks like the engines in them.

Nice work indeed.

Here is a Weld Draglite wheel for those who don't know how they look. http://weldwheels.com/shop/media/product/e01/draglite-0b9.jpg You have to click on the link, I tried every way I could think of to get the picture to show in the post but no success, it was a lot easier with the old forum layout than with this one...I can't figure out how to do it in this one.

The M A N is a 26.321. The power rating depends on what version the engines are but I would think they are in the 320-450 hp range (except for the Mercedes OM 502LA wich are rated higher) as that's what was common in the day these trucks were from. More modern European trucks has engines rated up to 750 hp.But if you know the engine type google is your friend and you will for sure find out what you need to know about them.

Apperantly they had the molds for the John Deere 4430 and 310 Backhoe as they have been reissued in modern time under the AMT/Ertl brand, But I haven't seen the International 1466 and Massey Ferguson 1155 since the Ertl days, and not the wagon and plow kits either.

Great looking dashboard.

There is no engine from Cummins called NTD and AMT miss spelled it on the box art, so it's most likely a NTC 350 and the same engine as in the Peterbilt 359 1100 cab kits, the recent California Hauler Peterbilt 359 Unilite "small window" cab kits has Detroit Diesel 8V-71. The engines in the AMT truck kits are Cummins NHC 250, NTA 370, NTC 350, Detroit Diesel 8V-71, 12V-71T 16V-71, 8V-92 and 8V-92T, Cat 1160, Mack ENDT-673, 865 (MPC/Ertl), ENDT-675 and 676 Tip Turbine (AMT) and they had one optional Turbine engine a couple of years in the GMC Astro. The other Ertl trucks Mack's excluded had Cummins V 903, International V-800, and Detroit Diesel 8V-71. The Revell US Snap truck kit engines are Cat 3406 and in the 1:16 kits Cat 3406 and 3408. The Revell AG engines are Cummins NTC 475 Twin Turbo and Cat 3408 for the US trucks (not the Italeri and Moebius based trucks) Italeri has Cummins NTC 400 (some are meant to look like N14 but are not correct) and Detroit Diesel Series 60 engines in most of their US Trucks. Moebius truck kits has International Maxxforce 15.

Yes, they didn't open the hood in the AG movie as the engine in the car was too new for the time period the movie was meant to be wich was 1962 and the Generation 2 Big Block didn't come out until 1965: So Revell did some "free interpretation" and put in a 348/409 under the hood in their American Grafitti 55 Die Cast model, and it had no flip nose or straight front axle either. I have done some research in the TLB subject as I plan to build one myself one day. Richard Ruth built three cars for Universal Studios and the TLB movie, two indentical cars with a straigh front axle and coil overs, Muncie M-22 "Rock Crusher" gear box, Olds/Pontiac 4:88 geared rear end with ladder bars, Hurst Airheart brakes, fibre glass doors with sliding windows, trunk lid and flip nose, and one stunt car never used in the movie. Ruth got three new big block engines from GM, two 454 LS6 and one left over 427 L88, the Main Car for outside scenes got the 427 L88 wich from the factory produced more horse power than the 454 LS6, the Camera Car for inside scenes got one 454 and the stunt car the other 454 but had an automatic transmission and individual rear brakes. The Camera car originally had the same tunnel ram intake and two 4bbl Holley 4160 carburators as the Outside Scene car did when it left Ruth's shop but it was changed to a single 4 bbl on a low intake for it to run better and be more reliable, and a dummy carb was mounted up in the scoop so it would look right from the inside, that car also got AC to cool the cast down, I have a picture of that setup. The Outside Scene car and the stunt car was repainted and used in the AG movie and the camera car was sold after the TLB movie and disappeared for a time but was found by Walt Bailey and was restored back to the original TLB state by him and Ruth and was sold at Barett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale AZ back in January this year...and I belive it's the car on the second picture in the first post.

Well for a 327 you can use whatever Chevy Small Block engine you prefer as they are all basically built from the same design, but for a 1963 Corvette you will need Corvette script cast aluminum valve covers if you want to do it right as most ,if not all, Corvettes had them back then. If you go the "carburator way" you will need the 1963 dual snorkel air cleaner, and if you want to go the "fuelie way" you need a 1963-65 Rochester FI system, they made 3 different styles for Chevrolet, the first generation was used between 1957 and 59, the second generation was used between 1960 and 62 and the final generation was used between 1963 and 65 and they all look different so you must use the correct one if you want to do it right.