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Here is a view seen from the I 15 just before Cajon Junction Ca. Another view from Cajon Junction, we have now changed route to the US Hwy 138 towards Phelan Ca. Still on the US Hwy 138.

We continue with trucks I have seen under my travels to your country, we are in the year 2011 still, Here is one we met on the I 40 between Barstow and Needles. I like big trains too so I took a picture of this train with 6 Diesels, the picture is taken after the I 40 somewhere between Needles and Kingman. Another old truck taken in Hackberry Az after Route 66.

Yes 428 are available in kit form. But 332, 352, 361 (Edsel), 390, 406, 410 (Mercury), 427 or 428 are all FE engines and has basically the same outside appearence, so it doesn't matter wich one you use, things that can differ are valve covers, exhaust and induction setups.

Very Nice Chris!!

I also have kind of hands on experience of the FE's, I don't own one myself but a couple of my friends in our car club who I share garage with have several of them, so I come in contact with them often. If you haven't seen the engine in the AMT 1960 Galaxie Starliner Custom or 2n'1 kits I suggest you take a look...it's one of AMT's last developed new tooling kits and the engine is very nice...I think you will revaluate your statement after you have seen it.

A Ford FE engine is a FE engine regardless of wich displacement it is and you woun't see any difference on the outside except for different valve covers, intake and exhaust systems...so if it's a 352, 361, 390, 406, 410, 427 or 428 they all basically looks the same as they all are based on the same block and head designs, some special versions were available such as the Side Oiler, High-Riser and SOHC but they were not produced for very long. I don't agree with the statement "All of the small scale 427's are junk"...as not all 1:24 and 1:25 FE engines are "blobs and lumps of cheesy old tooling with poor proportions". The best looking and most accurate FE engine in my opinion in the "small" 1:25 scale is the one in the AMT 1960 Ford Galaxie Starliner kits...If you haven't seen one I suggest you take a look. particulary in the Custom or 2'n 1 kits where you get lots of goodies. The FE engines in the AMT 66 Ford Fairlane 390 GT, 66 Fairlane 427 and 67 Mercury Comet aren't that bad either, and Revell did a decent High-Riser 427 in the 64 Ford Thunderbolt kits...these are 1:25th scale, if we go to the 1:24th scale you have the ones from the Revell/Monogram AC Cobra kits. wich are not that bad. When the 7 litre engines were banned after the 1967 season they returned to the GT40 Mk I and won LeMans again 1968 and 1969 with 5 litre small block Ford engines.

Well all 335 family engines 351C, 351M and 400, has basically the same outside appearence so it's hard to tell one version from another, of course a 2V and 4V can be picked out but otherwise they looks basically the same. But to tell a 335 family from a Windsor family engine is easier as all 335 family engines has the whater outlet/thermostate housing at the front end of the engine block itself just in front of the intake manifold pointing straight up, and the Windsor family has the outlet/thermostate housing going out from the front of the intake manifold pointing forward slightly angled up.

In 1981 Volvo bought White wich in turn owned the Autocar brand, and folded the Autocar brand in the year 2000, Volvo sold some of the Autocar model manufacturing to GVW Group LLC in 2001 and they are doing 3 models, ACMD, ACX and ACTT.

Scale Modeling By Chris has a couple in resin. http://www.scalemodelingbychris.com/smbc_partsp1.htm

You don't do it the easy way do you. Putting a Chevy engine in a Ford is difficult as the front part of the body with the suspension of most Ford cars isn't made for a rear sump...putting anything larger than a 289-302 in a 62-65 Fairlane is cramped...even a 351 Windsor is a hard fit...and they had to modify the engine bay, especially the spring towers and upper A-arms severely to fit the FE 427 to the Thunderbolt's. I own a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe so I know what I'm talking about.

Well Mack hasn't been fully US owned since 1979 when Renault Trucks of France bought in as part owner of Mack and bought out the rest 1990, and Volvo bought Renault Trucks (and Mack) the year 2000. The truck market is hard and Volvo is with all their acquisitions now No: 2 behind Daimler-Benz who still hold the No:1 spot in sales in the World...by the way, Daimler-Benz owns Detroit Diesel, Freighliner, Western Star and Thomas Built Buses in the US.

A few more from me. We are now in the year 2011 and at Pomona Ca. Here is an International Lonestar entering the parking lot at the track with the railway museum in the back, the photo is taken at a long range across the parkinglot so it's not the best. One of John Force Racing's support haulers in the pits, Peterbilt 387. More Race Car Haulers, Don Schumacher Racing's Haulers for Johnny Gray, a couple of Kenworth T660's I believe.

Great pictures guys!! Here are some nice ones from I 15 between Barstow Ca and Las Vegas Nv taken last November. I love the nature up in the dessert, we don't have anything even close to that where I live. Mountains in the late afternoon just before sunset. Sun setting in the West behind us. I have a lot of this kind of pictures and I will do more later.

A couple more from Famoso Raceway Bakersfield Ca back in 2009. A cool GMC Crew Cab COE ramp truck. Don "Snake" Prudhomme's Dodge Hauler from the Hot Wheels days back in 1970.

A couple more from 2012 at the I 10 going west between Phoenix Az and L.A. with the sun setting in the background.

Nice truck, moving van or car hauler?

No it doesn't and I agree with you fully. I never said it was a good idea to do a V12 in the 90º angle, I just said it was possible to do it if one want's to... the 60º angle is of course a better design for a V12, otherwise most of the manufacturers wouldn't use it...or multiples thereof.

Yes, but it also says by using split crank pins or ignoring minor vibrations you can do a V12 any angle you want...and that's what I meant with my first reply in this thread.

Found on the Interweb. A V12 engine is a V engine with 12 cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of six cylinders, usually but not always at a 60° angle to each other, with all 12 pistons driving a common crankshaft. Since each cylinder bank is essentially a straight-6 which is by itself in both primary and secondary balance, a V12 is automatically in primary and secondary balance no matter which V angle is used, and therefore it needs no balance shafts. A four-stroke 12 cylinder engine has an even firing order if cylinders fire every 60° of crankshaft rotation, so a V12 with cylinder banks at a multiples of 60° (60°, 120° or 180°) will have even firing intervals without using split crankpins. By using split crankpins or just ignoring minor vibrations, any V angle is possible. The 180° configuration is usually referred to as a flat-12 or even a boxer although it is in reality a 180° V since the pistons can and normally do use shared crankpins.

Volvo is in fact 3 companies, the car branch is owned by the Chineese and was separated from the truck and heavy equpiment parts when Ford bought the car business, the truck and heavy equipment branches are still mainly Swedish owned. Volvo Trucks owns Mack, White, Autocar and Renault Trucks (White and Autocar are dropped) and has assembly plants all over the World. The heavy equipment branch called Volvo Construction Equipment are Volvo, Zettelmeyer, Pel-Job, Michigan, Champion, Samsung, Terex Trucks and Ingersoll-Rand, most wheel loaders and articulated haulers are made here in Sweden, motor graders in Canada and excavators in South Korea but all are owned by Volvo. So Volvo trucks...and Mack...in north America are built in the US by a Swedish owned company. Volvo's main cab plant is located here in my home town and some of the cab sheet metal for the North American VN and VH are made here such as the back wall, doors and some more stuff.

Here's one I took an early morning in November 2012 on the Interstate 15 going over Cajun Pass in the Mojave dessert California. I have lots of "nice view" pictures from my travels to your country so I can contribute if you want to see more, they are mostly from the So-Cal area, Arizona and Nevada. But I have more than 10.000 pictures to go through from those trips so it might take a while.

The firing order has mostly to do with the crank and cam shaft design and not that much with how the engine layout is, a full revolution is 360º and 360 divided with 12 is 30, so you can fire one cylinder every 60º on a four stroke. V12's are also among the smoothest running engines around and was widely used in old warbirds.

Wasn't that kit changed to the Transtar II Eagle.

Cool trucks guys. Here are a few more from my trips to the west coast of the United States. This is Scrappers Racing's race hauler for Mike Salinas taken at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Raceway, Bakersfield Ca. A few more taken 2 years later at the 2011 NHRA Finals at Pomona Ca, More later.

You can pay with Paypal at Strada Sports website and if the things I want are listed on the website i take for granted than they are in stock if not marked otherwise...so I paid for them when I ordered, later I find out most of the things i ordered are out of stock but it's too late then as I have allready paid. I have now learned my lesson and will probably not order from them again.