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I have driven Route 66 from Topock via Oatman and Kingman, to Seligman and boy was that cool, lots to see...but after Hackberry it got too dark to see much so when we came to Seligman we continued on the I40 to Flagstaff, the day after we took the I 17 down to Phoenix, unfortunatley it was too dark when we left Flagstaff in the early morning so we didn't take the route through Sedona...well maybe next time. Here are some more cool trucks seen under a couple of my other trips to your country. We'll start with these taken back in 2006 and a Kenworth W 900L I saw near Venice Beach CA outside a car dealer. Another truck, a Ford F650 shot on a parking lot near Venice Beach CA. Now we skip ahead 3 years and land in the year 2009 and a couple of trucks at a friends property in Hesperia CA (your hometown Clayton). . Two Peterbilt's...the black 379 he had just sold when I took the pictures and the green 359 is most likely still there...he has had that one as long as I've known him...wich is about 16 years. He also had a 63 inch Peterbilt flat top sleeper when I was there last. I have more pictures taken under my trips and I'll continue with more of them another day.

I just looked at the underside pics again, doesn't the center section of the 8 1/4 inch rear end look a bit undersize.

The Ford racers started out the 1969 season with the 427 Sideoiler FE engine and I have seen pictures of one of the restored Petty 69 Torino Talladega's with a 427 in it, but they used the 385 based Boss 429 later in the year as it became available so you can use the wichever engine you like as both are correct. I don't know wich engine Richard Petty had the most wins with but he won 10 during the year and David Pearson beat him with one and won 11 and they ended up second and first in the series that year.

Well it's a very possible evolution of the 70 'Cuda kit, not that many changes to make it happen so I hope they will do it.

Looks good and it's a for sure buy when they hit the store shelfs.

A couple more trucks seen back in November last year. These were shot in mid traffic on Norwalk Blvd in Santa Fe Srings CA. North bound on the I 405 in Long Beach CA. On Cherry Ave in Long Beach CA.

Looking good Chris.

We need more modern trucks and I would love to see a Cascadia made...it seems to be a popular truck amongst the drag racers and others...but I would prefer a complete kit before transkits. Yes Italeri doesn't do many all new tooling trucks, they mostly update existing tooling to a newer model...and not allways enough for it to be correct either as they often use outdated engines and sometimes even wrong suspension and frames. But the Prostar is done by Moebius...not Italeri...and it's based on the Lonestar tooling, but not exactly the same...and I hope they will do more trucks, something else than a Navistar product this time and why not a Cascadia,

That type of Cummins engines called NTC (the kit engine is a NTC 475 Twin Turbo) were usually sand beige when they left the factory, the later N14 are black with sometimes red rocker covers and the even later ISX/Signature engines are red. But if you're doing a custom truck the engine can be whatever color you like.

One can wonder why RoG decided to do that one when they have lots of other better more correct trucks in their lineup such as the different versions of the KW K100's, T 600 and the Pete 359...I think I'll pass on this one.

Yes the Big Boy is huge, it's 132' 9 1/4" (40.47 meter) long including tender, 11' (3.4 meter) wide and 16' 2 1/2" (4.94 meter) high, total weight 1.250.000 lb (556990 metric tonnes)...so it's bad a**.

Very nice builds indeed.

Okay...that's what I got also...I bought mine from P&P while he still carried them.

Yes the roof spoiler is a separate piece on the AMT T-600 so you can leave it off...but you have to do some puttying and sanding as the sleeper top is designed to have it on and it's an edge there so it will blend in easier.

Pete 379...are you using the Italeri 378 with a modified hood or a resin hood.

With the kingpin that far back you could almost think it was a trailer from over here...the 362 Pete gave it away tho'.

I have two of the HRM transkits and they are very nice and of high quality, they are for the Mk I only and woun't fit the Mk II. I spoke with Harold over the phone when I ordered my first transkit several years ago and he told me that he was planning to do a transkit for the Mk II someday but I haven't seen any yet, one thing he was struggling with then was the 180º headers for the FE and how to do them. I have also bought a HRM transkit for the Fujimi Porsche 917K and it's as good as the others. No Scott, I haven't seen any model or model kit of the Mk III, they didn't make many real cars either...only 7.

A peculiar thing was that I got an email from Strada the same day just after I wrote in this thread saying my order is now shipped...I did have two orders there but the email did not give any indication of if it was both or just one, and in that case wich one. So we'll see what's coming.

The ZL-1 427 has pretty much the same outside appearance as the cast iron version, the block, heads and intake manifold was raw aluminum tho' and most of the other stuff was black including the air cleaner, timing cover and oil pan, the valve covers were chrome and the exhaust manifolds were cast iron.

I've read about this truck in our trucking magazine "Trailer" and that's why I know a few things about it...and Finland is one of our neighbouring countries. I don't think he used a Lonestar grille as I believe they are somewhat hard go get hold of over here, he just made the grille to look similar to one. The European truck manufacturers doesn't make conventional trucks anymore as our length regulations don't favour them, over here it's the total length including cab/hood, so only COE's are made over here. One fun thing is that Volvo has the main cab factory here in my home town and they stamp out some of the sheet metal for the North American VN and VH trucks as some things are the same as for our FH trucks over here, these things are packed up in boxes and sent over to the New River Valley Plant in Dublin Virginia for assembly.

Well the wheels in the 1:12 Camaro kit are SS Rally wheels and most of the COPO Camaro's I have seen had plain steel wheels with 4 narrow slots at the edge with a standard cap instead of the 5 oval holes rally's with rally cap...but...I know the rally wheel was avaliable for any Camaro and I'm sure some of the Baldwin Motion and Yenko Camaro's had Rally wheels with the Rally cap and they were also ordered through the Central Office Production Order system. And it's your model and you do as you please.

The picture was to illustrate the particular wheel I was looking for and I'm not sure how I will do my model yet...it might be like that but it could also be something completely different.

Very nice indeed. Yes you can get a Cat 3406 from the Revell snap Kenworth W900 and Peterbilt 359, but they are not aftercooled as your engine is.

Very nice Dave. I do also have this kit from AITM and it's really good, but it's still waiting to be built. I haven't decided if I want to build it as is or if I will use the parts needed from it and add them to an AMT Mack R series to do a full detail model...well the future will tell. The only thing I know is that I don't want to use a Detroit Diesel engine...yes the movie truck did have the DD sound in most of the movie but the air cleaner in most scenes suggests the engine should be an ENDT 676 Tip Turbine as it has two inlet hoses going in under the hood...and that particular engine can be found in the AMT Mack Cruiseliner...Mack trucks with any other engine would have air cleaners with only one inlet hose going from the cleaner to the engine. I also will change the designation on the hood from the RL700L decal that comes with the kit to RS700L.

The Detroit is way too clean...they allways leaks oil. Just kidding. Nice start.