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Yes it's quite easy, the bottom part is the same so it's only the top part that needs to be modified.

Early style aftercooler. Later style aftercooler

Nice start Thor. If you haven't got an answer on the engine color, most engines were white on Peterbilt's and Kenworth's from that era.

And some more from Sweden. A side dump wood chip transport. A very common type of gravel truck from around where I live, a dual drive truck with a lift axle behind and a pup with 2 or 3 axles. Another gravel truck, a transfer this time. Common type of gravel and asphalt trailer, comes with 3 or 4 axles. A common style concrete truck. A logging truck typical for Sweden. You may notice that most of our trucks are single drive with a lift axle behind, dual drive are mostly used on gravel, concrete and logging trucks that goes off road a lot, otherwise dual drive are not needed even tho' we have snow and ice on the roads almost half the year. If you're going up a hill in the winter and it's slippery just hit the differential lock and lift the lift axle before you spin out and you will transfer a lot more weight on to the drive wheels for traction...and use drive tires specially made for winter conditions with a good winter tread.

Here are some from Sweden. A typical general goods over the road transport here in Sweden, a straight truck with a tow behind trailer, 24 meters long, 3 axle single drive on the truck and 4 or 5 axles on the trailer. Reefer truck. A couple of different versions of the European EMS combinations seen around here, 25 meters and 25 centimeters long.

Nice build, and it's nice to see a Super Gas car that's not a Roadster.

There are visual outside differences between the NTA and the NTC but If you tweak the aftercooler a bit to look like the later style the NTC 350 can go as a 400, the outside apperance is pretty much the same. I know you're not in the position of buying resin engines but I forgot to mention for the 70's style in my first post, the Cummins KTA 600, a 19 litre 600 hp beast that could pull almot anything (P&P Resins had one).

If you are doing 70's style you could use a 425 hp Cat 1693TA, (available from KFS), or a DD 12V71 of similar hp rating (available from some resin casters). For more modern you could go for a Cummins NTC 475 Twin Turbo (Revell Peterbilt 359 and KW K100), a Cat 3408 (Revell KW W900) or maybe doing a 3412 from 2 3408's, or a Cummins ISX 600 (available from Auslowe).

Auslowe has right looking resin elbows for intake tubes, they have 3 different kind of 90º bends (long, medium and short) sold in pairs and an assortment of different agled elbows in sets of 12 in a pack. http://www.auslowe.com.au/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&category_id=23&page=shop.browse&Itemid=27&limit=20&limitstart=20

Make note that the oil pan in Bill's pictures is T-Bird only, regular cars had the sump at the front and a longer oil pickup tube from the oil pump. Pickup's with Y-block also had rear sump.

Jerry at Modeltruckin.com does them.

The Pulldozer tank does not look like a Moon tank, I've been to Moon Equipment several times and seen what they do, the tank in the kit looks more like a beer keg.

Dirtmodeler's beadlock rings are not only inexpensive, they look great too.

The 1:32 snap Kenworth Race Hauler and Old Funny Car together with the 1:25th scale Olds Funny Car done at the same period are the only model kits made of John's cars, Slixx also did a decal set of his 1994 Chevy Lumina...that's it. John made an exclusive deal with Action Collectables and nothing other than diecast cars has been done since then...unfortunately for his fans and I'm one of them, me being a long time John Force fan I have managed to get a couple of sets of the Slixx Lumina decals and a couple of the 1:25 Castrol Olds FC kits, but as I don't do 1:32 stuff I don't have the transporter and FC you have.

I saw that car at the SEMA show last November. But I'm not really getting the diesel thing...why would anyone want to put a large hopped up diesel engine in a hot rod or car when the diesel fuel is a lot more expensive than gasoline (both in the US and over here), .It can't be for fuel efficiency as a hopped up diesel engine consumes plenty and it can't be because it's better, you get lots of torque but the fact that diesel engines has a narrower power band than gas engines doesn't help much... so it must be just to be different.

The original T500-500 California Hauler kit from 1969 did not have a sleeper but back then you could send in a card to get one from AMT, unfortunately the sleeper tooling is gone or beyond repair so the recently reissued kit #866 doesn't have any either. Another thing that's different with the recent reissued kit compared to the original is that the tanks are shorter than in the original kit, otherwise it's pretty much the same kit as the original issue. The second edition T 500 kit wich came around 1971-73 included the sleeper and this sleeper in resin can be found at American Industrial Truck models marked as 36 Inch Restrite Sleeper. Here is the boxart from the second edition T 500 kit wich included the sleeper...the sunvisor is also gone as it was on the sleeper sprue, but you can find one in resin at Auslowe Model Accessories in Australia.

More of my pictures. This is taken out in the Mojave Dessert near Phelan Ca. Taken somewhere between Barstow and Needles on the I 40 back in 2011. Still on the I 40 near Needles. Approaching Kingman from the west on I 40. Now Route 66 towards Kingman. More to come.

You are right on that. No one uses tube type tires anymore...not on working trucks anyway. Over here in Sweden they use 8.25-9.00 X 22.5 inch rims almost exclusively as it's almost impossible to find tires for over here for any larger wheels. The tires could be either 12.00 or 295/80R and sometimes when frame hight are an issue they can use 55 or 60 profile. Lots of trucks here also uses 385/55R-22.5 steer tires on 11.75 X 22.5 wheels even for highway use, they run cooler and lasts longer.

Click on the link below, scroll down a bit and there is a list of truck engine colors I put together from several different sources for my own references. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83917&page=3

AMT had 10.00-20 tires in most truck and trailer kits and 11.00-22 tires in a few, Ertl had 11.00-20 tires in all their truck and trailer kits and that is the tires used in most of the AMT trucks today, the rim diameter are the same for both makes except for the AMT 11.00-22 tires, and as KJ says, also the Moebius rims, meaning that the kit wheels are not true to scale. Most modern trucks here in Europe uses 12.00-22.5 and that size are also used in the US, but I have also seen that 11.00-24.5 wheels are common on US trucks, all these are tubeless tires on one piece wheels, the 10.00-20, 11.00-20 and 11.00-22 are tube type tires with split rim wheels with lock ring.

Thanks! More of my pics from my travels to the SoCal area. Southbound on I 5 north of L.A. Down Town L.A. in the afternoon sun. Westbound on US Hwy 58, Alta Wind Energy Center just west of Mojave Ca.

Yes they are not that easy to find at decent prices, the one I got wasn't that bad tho'. I got one of those the other week...forgot about that.

A few trucks seen at the 2011 Goodguys Southwest Nationals in Scottsdale AZ.

I have seen somewhere that it was a 13 speed so I would go for a Fuller Roadranger. For engine pics just google for Cummis NTC 400 and you will find some.

This eBay find came in from Canada yesterday.