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Wheels with tires, the 10 hole disc wheels from the AMT Kenworth K100 Aerodyne, the 5 hole front wheels from the Autocar A64B, Dayton wheels from the GMC Astro95/Chevrolet Titan 90 and others, the larger 11.00 X 22 wheels from the White Freightliner. Maybe a kit to do a Single Drive and Day Cab from the Dual Drive Sleeper Cab White Freightliner, AMT has done both versions. Thermo King Reefer unit with tank from the Ertl Great Dane Trailer. Smoke Stacks, Horns, Roof Lights are some other things. Fuller Transmissions, are in several kits. Rear Suspensions, the KW Air Glide 100 from the K100 kits, KW Torsion Bar from the old W925, Mack Camel Back. There are certainly more, but these comes to mind right now.

I also like these Bicentennial KW's. There are more limited edition trucks that can be done. Kenworth had except for the 1976 Bicentennial Edition the 1981-82 Gold Nugget, the 1985 Liberty Edition, the 1990 007 Edition and the 1979 Canada 25 Year Silver Edition, and the 1973 trucks with the gold KW grille bug emblem for the Kenworth 50 year anniversary. Peterbilt had the Patriot paint scheme for 1976 and certainly some more that I haven't found out about yet. Mack had the All American Stars and Stripes paint scheme for their 70th anniversary 1970 and for sure some more, they also had a bicentennial edition as most of the other manufacturers. There are also some limited edition trucks from Australia, they have Bicentennial trucks and Gold Nugget trucks and for sure some more.

As I need a couple of these conversion kits I have tried to order this kit for a couple of months now but to no avail, when I first looked it was out of stock, then the caster took a vacaiton for some weeks and since they came back these kits are still out of stock...irritating.

These side loaders for containers are still in use, at least here where I live.

Unfortunate, I ordered from them and the parts I got were great, I didn't have to wait very long either.

Aha, I have to look into that. Yes the old Revell FC rims are terrible, they were most likely meant to be either Centerline's Auto Drag or Cragar's Super Trick, wich was very common rims on drag cars back then, but they missed the target by about a mile or two when they tooled them up because they don't look even close to either of them.

Over here they are quite common,

Nice!!

The Mustang II FC is the main reason I bought it, and I got this combo kit for less money than the Mustang alone usually goes for on ebay.

The Kenworth 4 bag Dual Air suspension came in 1961 wich I believe was replaced with the Air Glide 100 8 bag, and you could also have Walking Beam, "Monkey Motion" or "Big Six" suspension. But the torsion bar was popular for on highway trucks.

Nice build!!

Clayton! I have an Auslowe E9 Mack V8 I don't need.

Yes that's what I have found out also. Here is a couple of pictures of the interior. Tyrone Malone's Papa Truck transporter for the Super Boss race truck was a 1976 Kenworth K 100 VIT 200 Bicentennial, so it basically has the same paint sceme, frame and interior colors...good to know if you want to build one.

Very nice build. Where did you get the front rims, I have been looking all over for a set of correct looking Cragar Super Trick's and these are the best looking I have seen so far.

My latest buy.

Looks great Chris.

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