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Nice work so far.

Pictures of the Sox & Martin Superbirds are a bit hard to find as they were used for a short time...and yes I said Superbirds as Sox & Martin appearently had two, one for the Super Stock / E class wich ran just a few races as it wasn't really legal, and one for the C / Modified Production class wich were campained for a longer time. The SS/E 4-speed car had a 426 Hemi with a Rat Roaster intake manifold and two Carters, no hood scoop, no scoops on top of the fenders, a painted metallic blue roof and white interior...one of only two built and Jack Werst" Mr 5 And 50" got the other one with an automatic and ran in SS/EA. The C/MP car had a 426 Hemi with a high individual runner intake manifold like the 70 'Cuda had, two Holley Dominators, a 440 six pack scoop on the hood, no scoops on the top of the fenders, a black vinyl top, white interrior and a slightly different paint job and decaling than the SS/E car. This is an engine pic of the newly built SS/E Superbird I just scanned from the Super Stock & Drag Illustrated July 1970 issue, the picture is in black and white but you can clearly see the valve covers and they definately don't look black to me.

Well as far as I know both the Sox & Martin SS/E and C/MP Superbirds had chrome valve covers as most of their Hemi race cars had back in the day. Yes the early Race Hemis chrome valve covers only fit on the early Race Hemi heads wich are a bit different designed than the Street Hemi heads wich have a kink in the end to make room for the power steering filler neck, but I believe the aftermarket very soon made chromed valve covers for the Street Hemi engines as people would like their engines to look like the race engines, many of the 68 Hemi Dart's and Barracuda's also had chromed valve covers but they were delivered with black valve covers from the factory

Well we have pretty much the same rules over here in Europe and Sweden as they do in the US, the sport comes from there you know. The numbers on the windows are the drag racing license number for the driver and most of them are 3 or 4 digits, lets say 341, 1798 or 2583 to give a couple of examples, but if you place yourself in the top 10 in your class in the sanctioning body you compete for (EDRS, NHRA or whatever) you get the corresponfing number from 1 to 10 after the class designation the year after as Karl said...so if you do a fictional car the numbers can be whatever you like but the classification for the car must be kind of correct and believable otherwise you will hear about it, so a Datsun with a Ford engine will not work in Pro Stock but will fit in many other classes.

American Trucker has been aired on Discovery Channel here in Europe, at least one season, and I saw the episode with the NASA Pete's.

I'm amazed Revell AG hasn't reissued that one yet. As for Moebius, I would take a spread axle flatbed or whatever modern trailer they do, maybe a Featherlite race transporter, a lowboy, a tanker...well amost anything modern.

Keith Marks has decals for the Trans Am

I must agree with the others, Great Work!

I think the main reason they stopped using the Potvin style drive was that it was a fixed drive where the supercharger and crank shaft rotates at the same speed and that's a disadvantage as you get moore boost if you overdrive the supercharger, with a belt drive it's easy to change the gear ratio and over or underdrive the supercharger depending on how much boost you want. NHRA has a limit for supercharger overdrive in the nitro classes at 1.5:1, (1.7:1 in Denver Co) and the supercarger rotates at 12,450 rpm at an engine speed of 8500 rpm and delivers about 60 psi of boost (4 atmospheres).

It's the correct email, it's the one I got from Ben Wicker and used to contact him...but he didn't answer right away.

Great work so far Jarda, I'm following this project with great interest.

Nice work!!

Great work on both!!

Great pictures Clayton!!

Revell AG did probably take some libertys and used some artistic freedom when they did the Alaskan and Canadian Hauler models, the 359 is the only Peterbilt truck they have except for the 377A/E wich is an Italeri tooling, and the 289 Firetruck wich is the same as the 359 but with only one drive axle. I believe the Peterbilts with those flat square front fenders as the Canadian and Alaskan Haulers has were 353's so the hood is probably wrong too as the 353's had butterfly hoods. The real Can-Do wrecker was a 379 short hood with a Cat 3406E but Revell AG took some liberty there too and used their Cummins NTC 475 powered 359 for the model, the same base was used for the Bill Signs truck, it should have had a Cat 3408 but the model had the same NTC475 as all the other Peterbilts..

The Revell AG Peterbilt Can-Do and Will-Do Wreckers has tripple axle, they have longer frame rails with an extra suspension for the third axle, but the third axle on the wreckers is a non driven pusher. The Peterbilt Canadian Hauler and Alaskan Hauler has regular dual drive frame, frame extesions to splice in in front of the regular dual drive and a third drive axle set up for a true tri-drive. Revell AG did also have a Kenworth K100 Heavy Hauler and Oriental Express with tripple rear axles and the kit has a regular dual drive frame, a frame extension to put in back of the frame with a third suspension and a third drive axle, all three rear axles on them are also driven. It's not that hard to do, you just need to extend the frame to make room for the third axle, get a third suspension, one more of the front drive axle with the power divider and a prop shaft to connect them up and voila, you have your tri-drive.

Very Nice!!!

Yes we are talking models here, but I would rather have used the phrase "Parts Pack Engines" if that's what I'm asking about as Snake said instead of "Crate Motors" as I believe almost everyone here knows exactly what a parts pack engine is By the way, even though this is a modeling site we talk real cars and trucks and things related to them too...references you know. Real engines are shipped in many different packages, some use some use plastic boxes and some use some type of crate made of wood and/or chip board, but they mostly go by the name "crate motors" anyway,

Sorry, might have jumped the gun a little.

Very nice!!

Yes of course an alternative is to lace your own wire wheels...but I'm too lazy for that.

Yes I got that decal set...but the earlier ALPS printed set with real gold and there are two gold bug grille emblems there. As I have mentioned earlier, 1973 was Kenworth's 50th anniversary and all trucks from that model year had gold bug grille emblems to recongize that instead of the regular red, and the main truck in the movie was a 1973.

I got my C15's today from Jamie and I can only agree, top quality and highly recommended.

I would like to have them too.