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Wheels and tires can be changed and I don't think the frame for the Revell AG K100 is that bad so what kit you want to start from is up to you, Of course you can start from the AMT K100 Aerodyne kit...but they are starting to fetch quite a lot of money too nowadays, not as much as the Revell kits but not that far from it, just now I see a couple on the auction site with asking prices from $63 to $280, the more expensive ones are BJ & The Bear kits and Tyrone Malone Transporter kits. The Revell kit has the normal 180" wheel base and the frame has to be lengthened to do a tri-drive, if you can't find the tri-drive kits, the AMT kit has a longer wheel base as the kit was the base for the Tyrone Malone transporters wich has a transporter body behind the cab, so they don't have to be stretched. The Revell AG K100 has a Cummins NTC 475 Dual Turbo and a manual transmission so it's not the same as the Revell AG W900/T900 wich have a Cat 3408 and a different frame, the AMT has a Detroit Diesel 8V-92T and an Allison automatic transmission.

The rear axle was probably too wide for the body and the Eldorado/Toronado wheels has lots of back spacing and would move the tires inward.

Nice work, I like the old F1 cars.

Very nice!!

Yup, he did a good job on it.

Please Revell, reissue them.

Revell...Monogram...it's pretty much the same thing, Revell and Monogram merged into one company in 1986 but the two brands were kept separate until the mid 90's when the kits were labeled Revell/Monogram, after that Monogram pretty much dissappeared and all kits were labeled Revell, but lately they have reinstated the Monogram lable and a Revell developed kit can be labeled Mongram and a Monogram developed kit can be labeled Revell regardless of origin...I don't like it as it gets confusing if you don't know your kit history well. But all Monogram developed kits are 1:24th scale and Revell has allways been 1:25th scale so the Monogram labeled kits in 1:25th scale were done after the merge 1986 and no new tooling kits from the Revell/Monogram Company after that are 1:24th scale. There are a couple of exceptions, the NASCAR kits, the 80's and 90's Pro Stock and Funny Car kits from Monogram and Revell were 1:24th scale but the tooling for them were originally developed before the merge.

Nice one. You know the ZL-1 engines were unpainted do you...the ZL-1 blocks, heads and intake manifolds are aluminum and were left bare.

The AMT Kenworth K100 Aerodyne and Tyrone Malone race trucks has Allison auto trannys, and I have seen them from a couple of resin casters.

Over here in Sweden and Europe the length regulations has killed off the conventionals and all truck manufacturers are only doing cabovers as the demand for conventionals wasn't enough to continue production. Scania stopped making the T series 2005 and Volvo stopped making the NH 2006, Volvo still do conventionals for the North American market.

Okay it had passed me, I've read somewhere that that tooling was missing, but of course they could have found it again.

Nice work Dave. I also saw the movie back in when it came up here in 1978 at 14, it's one of my favourite movies and I saw it every time they re-ran it at the movies, and have seen it at least once a year since the video and DVD came and I have lost count on how many times I have seen it. I also have plans to build the Kenworth truck, Hobbs trailer and Pontiac Trans Am in the future.

I thought the new tool 57 Chevy dissappeared when they moved production from Mexico to China. The last new tool 57 Chevy was the Coca Cola version and the one with the pink and white 2 door post car on the box art, both from 1998.

Nice work so far James.

Okay, I read about the engines at the link and they do work...except for the turbos wich are dummys without rotors.

Yes it does...it looks very good...I just thought I would give out the information if anyone want a 1:25 scale NTC 400

Great work Pavel. Regarding the NTC 400, you could have used the dual turbo NTC 475 from the Revell AG Peterbilt 359, Kenworth K100 or T600 and leave out one of the turbos and you will have a 1:25th scale NTC 400.

The Potvin blower setups are for the Chevys but you could use it on the Hemi if you want to, but the intake manifold would probably not fit on the Hemi so most likely it has to be modified, the tubes could also be too short. Otherwise the Hemi comes with a regular blower setup.

I believe Melbourne Model Truck Accessories http://mmtaer.webs.com/truckparts.htm is out of business, I have bought from them once and they had nice products but when I tried to order again about a year ago I didn't get any response and I tried several times.

If we go by that almost all Revell AG trucks must originally have been U.S. kits or designed in the U.S., all the versions of the Peterbilt 359's, Marmon's, Kenworth K100's W900's and T600's and some of the trailers issued by Revell AG are 1:25th scale. To my knowledge the only trucks from Revell AG issued by Revell US was the Peterbilt 359 "Will Do" Wrecker issued 2013-14 and now the Kenworth W900 Wrecker.

Nice work!!

The engines has dual turbochargers, intercoolers and superchargers so it's a bit busy and kind of overkill...it's probably possible to have this kind of setup on a real engine but these are most likely fake and don't work as it's a movie car, they are just there to look cool. The War Rig looks to have two supercharged engines too but I belive the original diesel is still there and drives the truck as black diesel smoke comes out of the the stacks on some places in the movie. I remember lots of the cars in the old Mad Max movies that had different carburator, injector and blower setups screwed on to the top of the hoods and was non working.

I belive Snake pulled your chain a bit I have never seen any Dodge 'Cuda's either...only Plymouth's. You are on to a good start anyway and I will follow your progress with interest.

They have missed one of the most important parts of the engine...the oil pump, all Mopar B and RB engines has the oil pump in the outside of the block low on the drivers side and the mount for the oil filter is also the end cover of the oil pump. The oil pump is the part shown in white on this picture.

If you are going to build a period correct dragster from the 60's the engine block would be cast iron, some racers did paint them but the cast iron engine blocks were short lived in the Nitro cars as they couldn't be that easily repaired if you threw out a rod, and many didn't bother to paint the blocks...so what color you choose or if you leave it bare is up to you. Aluminum Hemi's for Nitro racing didn't come until the early 70's, Keith Black did his 426 based version in 1974 as Greg stated and Donovan did their 392 based 417 in 1971...before that they used stock cast iron blocks as stated. The aluminum engines are bare and I would maybe use an aluminum metalizer paint of some kind, or one of Alclad 2's aluminum finishes, their website http://alclad2.com/