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I believe that was the reason AMT changed to Hendrickson Walking Beam.

Here you go. Allis Chalmers - Plum Crazy Purple Caterpillar1145 - New Cat Yellow1150 - New Cat Yellow1160 - New Cat Yellow1673 - New Cat Yellow1674 - New Cat Yellow1676 - New Cat Yellow1693 - New Cat Yellow3208 - New Cat Yellow3306 - New Cat Yellow3406 - New Cat Yellow3408 - New Cat Yellow3412 - New Cat YellowC5 - C19 - New Cat Yellow with Black valve covers Edit: I have now found out that Caterpillar Changed the color from the Old Caterpillar Yellow, also known as Hi-Way Yellow, to New Cat Yellow on their machines in June 1979 and that could be the case with the engines too.So if that's correct the engines would be Cat Hi-Way Yellow from January 1932 until June 1979, after June 1979 New Cat Yellow...except for the cases when the truck manufacturers had their own colors as listed below. The old Cat Hi-Way Yellow were a brighter shade yellow than the New Cat Yellow wich is more to the mustard shade. CumminsH/NH and HS/NHS/NHRS ("Iron Lung") series 672 and 743 cui 50's and early 60's - Cummins Gold close to old Cat yellowNHC250 - Cummins BeigeNTA370 - Cummins BeigeNTC350 - Cummins BeigeNTC400 - Cummins BeigeNTC475 - Cummins BeigeN14 - Black (cast aluminum valve covers are red and stamped sheet metal valve covers are black)V-903 - Dark grey or Black Signature 600/ISX CM570 - Red (may have chrome or black valve covers) Detroit DieselSeries 60 - DD Alpine Green or BlueGreen6-71 - DD Alpiine Green8V71 - DD Alpine Green12V71 - DD Alpine Green or Silver (usually turbocharged models)16V71 - DD Alpine Green8V92 - DD Alpine Green or Silver (usually turbocharged models) Chevrolet1940s to late 1950s - Medium greyLate 1950s to 1963 I-6 engines Chevrolet engine blue, V-8 Chevrolet engine red (orange) FordFord 331 Flathead truck engine - Dark Spruce GreenOHV 1954 to 1961 - Red534SD - Ford Blue GMCGMC 1940s - AvacadoGMC late 1940s to early 1950s Dark GreenGMC 1950s Crimson RedGMC 1960s V-6 Alpine Green, V-8 RedTurbine - Red InternationalV-800 - Metallic blueMaxx Force - Dark Blue and Silver Mack - Pre 1990 gold, Post 1990 grey, or blue / grey if equipped with an intercoolerENDT675ENDT676ENDT8654cyl (Mack AC) - medium greySuper tip turbine - redThe Maxidyne engine colour was gold, the Maxiydyne truck could easily be identified by the gold dog on the bonnet.The Thermodyne, Econodyne motors were all painted GREY, these had a chrome dog fitted.If any other brand of motor was fitted, Cummins,Cat, GM-Detroit, then it would have a chrome dog fitted as well. Exceptions, some truck manufacturer's use their own colors instead of the engine builders color AutoCar - White through 1968-69 then manufacturer color Ford - Black until 1965, Ford Blue until 1982, Ford Corporate Grey Diamond Reo - Red International - Red"International paid Cummins, Detroit and Cat about $25 per engine to have them all painted IH 2150 Red for many years. The practice ended in the '70's, as I remember, and we (International, my employer) pocketed the 25 bucks. Concerning the blue International V-800 in the Paystar, marketing decided that International's new big bore engines should be blue to distinguish them from the competition" Peterbilt - White through 1984 then engine manufacturer color (there are exceptions as white engines can be found in trucks after 1984 and manufactures colors in trucks before 1984)Caterpillar was the last engine manufacturer to stop painting them white. Kenworth - White through 1975 then engine manufacturer color (there are exceptions as white engines can be found in trucks after 1975 and manufacturers colors in trucks before 1975)

I agree on Ben's wheels, they are awsome. But if you use wheels from a 1:24th scale truck on a 1:25th scale they might work as 24.5 inch wheels and Kit Form Services (KFS) 2-hole rims with tires are 1:24th scale as they are mostly intended for Italeri trucks wich all are 1:24th scale. Most of the kit tires are 10.00 X 20 (AMT), 11.00 X 20 (Ertl and late AMT), 11.00 X 22 (AMT's largest) and 11.00 or 12.00 X 22.5...but no 11.00 X 24.5 as far as I know.

I can only agree, please Round 2, bring them back.

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Nice collection Gerald. Sox & Martin had two Superbird's, one competed in Super Stock/E a short time and one in C/Modified Production and as I have understood it it was two different cars, the SS/E car had a blue painted top and the C/MP car had a black vinyl top and was painted a bit different. They also had two Pro Stock 73 Dusters the same year, one they built themselves wich was crashed at a race and one built by Don Hardy bought from Don Grotheer as a replacement for the crashed car, they also ran 70, 71 and 72 Dusters in Pro Stock. They had Barracuda's/'Cuda's from 66, 68, (one 68 updated with a 69 nose) in Super Stock, Modified Production and Pro Stock, 70, 71 and 72 in Pro Stock, Road Runner's from 68, 69 and 71 and GTX's from 67, 68, 69 in Stock, Super Stock and Modified Production, Belvedere from 65 and 67 in Factory eXperimental and Super Stock, a couple of Dodge Colt's in Pro Stock and A/FX, a Dodge Challenger in A/FX and an Dodge Omni in Pro Stock...that's just the Mopar cars. They also had some Ford's and Mercury's and Ronnie also ran a 63 Chevy Impala before the Sox & Martin era and a Plymouth Arrow for "Billy The Kid" later...and their mechanic Jake King ran a 64 Ford Thunderbolt at one time. So there are lots of Sox & Martin subjects if someone wants to build them all. Most of their cars were driven by Ronnie Sox (with startnumbers Pro 200, Pro 4, and Pro 23) and Herb McCandless ( with numbers Pro 211 and Pro 44).

Another good set can be found in the Revell 69 Camaro Z/28 RS.

Nice, how do I get one??

Time to show another of my old builds, this time it's a Chevy C1500 Sportside Pickup built sometime in the late 90's. The kit is from AMT/Ertl and the LT5 engine and wheels are from a Monogram High Performance Series Corvette ZR-1, other than the engine and wheels the kit is built out of box. The paint is Humbrol black with a painted red stripe. To the pics. Enjoy!

Nice Dragster Krishna. One small detail tho'... if it would be correct Joe's 1990 car should have number 2 on the wing end plates because Gary Ormsby won the NHRA Top Fuel Championship title 1989 with his Castrol GTX dragster and therefore had number 1 in the following year 1990, Joe was runner up in the series 1989 and had number 2 1990. The year after (1991) it was the other way around, as Joe won the Championship 1990 he had number 1 in 1991, Gary came 2:nd and had number 2.

There are many drag racing cars that doesn't have an alternator as it's really not needed if you can re-charge the battery between rounds wich of course can be done with the battery still in the car,...that's how we do it on our Super Comp Dragster and it works perfectly. And if you use a magneto ignition as Sox & Martin did on their 71 'Cuda you only need power for the starter as the magneto generates it's own power for the ignition.

Slixx don't have a whole sheets with logos from just one brand, there are only a couple of decals from the different brands present on their sheets. I do have some of Slixx Contingency sheets so I know they have M & H decals, decals similar to this one are on one of their sheets but with the M & H in white. Here is another M & H logo present on a couple of other Slixx Contingency sheets. They do have M & H Decals on decal sheets in other categorys too, for example on Jungle Jim, Tommy Ivo and several other FC sheets, Bebee & Mulligan, Jade Grenade and other TF sheets, .

They do have a couple of different M & H decals on their Nostalgia Contingency Sheets.

Slixx Decals should have some.

A far as I know Tom Daniels designed the BadMan kit 1969...so you might be too young to remember.

Looks good, keep up the good work.

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Yes it does, that's why I showed pictures from the two eras with dual mags we have had so far. They started to use the dual magneto setup in the nitro classes in the late 80's and Mallory Super Mag's was what almost everyone used back then, before that only one magneto were used in the nitro classes. Later on in the mid 90's they switched from the Mallory Super Mag's to the more efficient MSD Pro Mag 44's and that's what they still use today...MSD started to develope a 66 amp Pro Mag back in 2002 but it was never permitted for use in the NHRA.

Okay, lets show some pictures of my latest build, this build got finished in 2008 and it's my interpretation of the Revell 32 Ford Roadster. This model is not built entirely out of box, I originally planned to use the 392 Hemi engine from the Revell 41 Willys Gasser but the B&M Hydro Stick tranny didn't fit under the floor, so I used the engine from the 41 Willys Street Rod as it has a 727 auto, but I used the injector and scoop from the Gasser, the zoomie headers are from the AMT Boss Nova. I detailed the engine with an old parts box Vertex Magneto, ignition wires, injection hoses and throttle linkage, I didn't like the kit firewall so I scratch built a more stock looking firewall from Evergreen sheets and half round bar. The paint is Tamiya TS-52 Candy Lime Green from a spray can and Tamiya Clear, the interior is Tamiya TS-45 Pearl White and I used the custom "boat style" steering wheel from the AMT 56 Ford Fairlane Victoria and painted to match, the grille is a photo etched piece from Model Car Garage and the wheels and tires are from the old Monogram Li'l Coffin. The front wheels and front axle had bad chrome plating so I redid them with Alclad II Chrome, I also did the oil pan for the engine at the same time as the pan for the transmission already was chrome plated. To the pics. Enjoy!

Italeri is an Italian manufacturer. Over here Maxibrake chambers are on the first drive axle and steer axle on trucks.

The 289 and 302 looks exactly the same on the outside, the differences between them are all internal, the cylinder bore are the same at 4,00 inches but the stroke is slightly longer on the 302 at 3.00 inches compared to the 289's 2.87 inches. The missing fuel pump would go on the drivers side on the timing chain cover about half way between the water pump and the crank shaft, but as Bill says, on many "suped up" engines the mechanical fuel pump is omitted and the mounting hole is blocked off and an electrical fuel pump is used instead to ensure a steady fuel flow to the carburator.

Thanks guys. I know the last evolution of this tooling the Mark Pawuk Summit Firebird and Warren Johnson GM Goodwrench Service Plus/Superman Firebird kits from 1999, and the issues after them, sits too high at the front and has to be modified to look right, but I didn't do any modifications to get the "right" stance for this one.

Here is a picture showing the older Mallory Super Mag setup in the Bruce Larson Sentry Funny Car from 1989-90-91. And here are a couple of more recent MSD Pro Mag 44 setups from the 2000's, the last pic is from one of the Worcham family's CSK Funny Car from 2008-9 and it's pretty much how it still looks today

The Aerodyne sleepers came 1976 and the first 1:25th scale kit of a Kenworth W900 Aerodyne was as Paul mentioned, and as far as I know, the Monogram snap kit from 1982 (kit No 1501), Monogram also did a glue kit W900 Aerodyne in 1:16th scale in 1982 (Kit No 2502) and in 1:32nd scale in 1980 (kit No 1205). The 1:25th scale kit is the same one as the latest Revell issue except for color of plastic and decals. AMT/Ertl also did a Kenworth W900 Aerodyne in 1:32nd scale (kit No 6776 AMT/Ertl and kit No 5026 AMT), this was also a snap kit.

I have looked into this but I have only found a picture of the underside of the restored car. The 1970 Barracuda specifications here under from the Popular Hot Rodding April 1970 article says "Shatter Shield - Lakewood Industries", and it for sure looks to be a Lakewood steel bellhousing on the restored car...if it's correct or not I don't know but I have seen pictures of Grumpy Jenkins Toy VIII 70½ Camaro with a Lakewood bellhousing.