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I bought a resin Peterbilt 352 110 inch double bunk cab on ebay a little while ago but it wasn't a tall 352H...I would love to get one tho'.

Very nice builds.

Nice to know. But...as far as I know they are called Fuchs...the other way it's very close to another "four letter word".

The paint on both of the looks like glass...nice work guys!!

The 352H is also slightly taller than the 352 "Pacemaker". If you look at the pictures in this thread you see what you need to do to do a 352H from a regular 352...no you don't have to open any of the doors but otherwise it's a good guide. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83936 It will for sure involve some work modifying the cab to a 352H but I'm sure you could do it.

Very nice job indeed Alan, it has been a pleasure following your progress with all your Tyrone Malone builds...and I'm glad I could help you out. I'm looking forward to see how the Evel Knievel Pete comes out...as Doug says it looks to be a 110 inch double bunk tall cab 352H.

That's one way of measuring it, a total wheelbase of a vehicle or vehicle combination is from the center of the first steer axle to the center of the rearmost axle on the vehicle or vehicle combination. But when you are specifying a truck when you order one you don't measure that way, it has to do with weight regulations and how you distribute the load...for an US truck tractor the effective wheelbase is measured from the center of the steer axle to the centerpoint between the rear axles as in the first picture in my reply above. International trucks has wheelbase options between 167 to 280 inches...so in this case the distance between the center of the front axle to the centerpoint between the axles in the rear tandem is 280 inches wich equals to 284.5 millimeters in 1:25th scale...or 11.2 inches.

I know the former Jerald McBee later Tyrone Malone Defiance Freightliner wheelstander truck with Allison 1710 was allowed to run no faster than 80 mph for exhibition runs.

Since you mentioned the Defiance Truck I thought I would help out with what I have found...It can be built with an AMT White Freightliner, an AMT Parts Pack Allison 1710, some modifications and some scratchbuilding...so it's not impossible, it just some work and determination involved. The Hurricane is probably harder to do as it needs a lot more work and modifications...but for sure possible if one wants to. Revell has a nice dual axle trailer to do the trailer towed behind the Hideout Truck for the Smokey Bear Corvette, the AMT dual axle display case box trailer or a Galaxie Limited tag along dual axle box trailer could be modified to resemble the trailer towed behind the Papa Truck. Malone also had other trucks, the light blue Old No 8 KW K100 108 Inch flat top cab with dromedary body wich pulled the living quarters trailer, the blue with white, blue and yellow stripes KW W900B Aerodyne wich pulled a lowboy trailer and the Old Blue 67 KW W900 truck wich pulled the Little Irvy trailer.

Yes it would be an exhibition car only, not allowed to compete. The Gas classes had quite tough rules and the cars was close to street legal, and many of the car people call "Gassers" are in fact not a true gasser as no alteration of wheelbase was allowed, you must have lights and fenders, engine couldn be moved back no further than 10% of the wheelbase and so on.

A nice build of one of my favourite racing cars.

I have bought stuff from P & P a couple of times and got great service and nice parts.

Have a look here Alan, there are some pictures of the Defiance Allison 1710 V12 Powered Wheelstander Freightliner at the link. http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/stage-coach-diesel-/page5.html If you go to the next page there are also some pictures of the highly modified Detroit Diesel 6V-92 powered Hurricane Kenworth truck, these two trucks together with the Super Boss, Papa Truck, Hideout Truck and Smokey Bear Corvette...and I think the Boss Truck Of America and the Little Irvy Truck...now belongs to Gary Reis at Stage Coach Diesel Motorsports Museum. The Defiance wheelstander truck was originally brown with white, red and yellow stripes and was built by Jerald McBee from Oregon and here is an article from the February 1980 Overdrive Magazine with the truck as it originally was. http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truck_magazines/truck-and-trucking-/1980-overdrive-magazine/02-overdrive-magazi/february-1980-defia.html#media Click on "next" to get the other two pages. Malone must have bought it from him sometime in the mid to late 80's and repainted it pink.

The only reason I do close to correct firing order is to avoid the hair part syndrome...it looks better if it's close to correct. But it doesn't matter how you do as the firing order on the distributor depends on how it's put in and where the distributor arm points when the number 1 cylinder is at TDC...that's allways 1 regardless of what the diagrams say and you have to start there.

Looks very good Alan...I'm eager to see more.

My AMT 55 Chevy Bel Air with the grille from the Model Car Garage photoetched set for the Revell/Monogram 1:25 scale 55 kits. It works with the AMT kit with some slight modifications. My Revell 32 Ford Roadster with MCG photoetched grille.

With the age of the truck kits in mind I would say the Cat engine in the Revell (old Monogram) Snap KW W900 and Pete 359 are a 3406 PCTA (pre combustion chamber turbo charged after cooled) with glow plugs, or possibly a 3406A PCTA or DITA (direct injection turbo charged after cooled), the A was available with both. The KW kit was originally released as a Bicentennial VIT 200 wich came in 1976 for the US 200 years celebration and the 3406A was produced through the mid 80's, the B came later and around 1990 it came with ATAAC (air to air after cooled) this setup is more known over here in Europe as Turbo Intercooler. I don't know what visual differences there are between the PCTA and DITA, and the A and B model, but most of it must be pretty much the same as all have mechanical fuel systems, the largest difference should be when they introduced the ATAAC.

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Yes that's the consequence of the whole deal...the consumer at the end looses out either way. Either we get a very expensive model or we don't get anything at all.

No they don't. But I don't understand why some of these large companys have to take out horrendous licensing fees just to use their trademark when it's not used in for them compromising way...and if they are asked by the model manufacturers they still have full control over the product and how it represents it, if they don't approve of how the trademark is presented they can just say no and the manufacturer must start over and do it right. The large companys will never be making a lot of money on giving out licensing for this hobby anyway...as you say it's too small a market to make any difference so it doesn't matter if the licensing fees are high or low. I think Cat stopped making On Highway engines in 2010, they use Navistar engines in the Cat trucks now.

The latest Multi Maverick kit was a Hobby Heaven (now Spotlight Hobbies) special issue. The car was real but didn't look exactly like the kit as it had a much nicer paintjob, it was in the January 1971 issue of Hot Rod Magazine. As far as I know Ohio George didn't race the car that much and sold it later.

Well it can't get any cheaper than free and they don't even have to do anything to get exposure of their brand...how can you beat that,..but of course, in this case Good Year or Caterpillar might not sell more because of this but their name for sure gets out there for nothing, I understand that Companys wants to have control over their brand and trademarks but if their names not are used in the wrong way and it's a good representation of the tire, engine, dozer or whatever I can't see the harm. There are most likely other ways to get exposure in our modern day and age, but all advertising has a price and the companys mostly has to pay for their comercial spots and adds...in this hobby they have got exposure for free...and now they wants money for using their brand names...it should be the other way around.

It's unfortunate that companys don't see the value of the "Free Advertising" they get from this hobby, they don't have to do anything and their product and name gets shown for free in the model kits we build. No today they are trying to get out every cent they can from their brand name but if the licenses gets too expensive they don't get anything at all. A good example of that is Revell and their no name tires...Good Year wanted a lot of money from Revell to allow them to continue to use their name on the kit tires, instead of paying Good Year Revell stopped making tires with Good Year names...What did Good Year get out of that???...Exactly Nothing...and they lost out on the free advertising they had before at the same time...kind of a bad business decision if you ask me. I for one learned of the Good Year brand and what they did from my model building when I was a kid...long before I was involved with real cars. It isn't like Revell misses out on any sales and have to pay the licensing fee to be able to sell their kits as we don't stop buying kits just because the Good Year name are missing from the tires...as long as it has tires we buy... but it would have been great if the name on the tires still was on there for authenticity. I don't mind if the companys wants to have a say in how their products are presented when model companys does a model using their name, they have to take care of the brand and how it's used...so that's understandable...but taking out horrendous licensing fees for that I strongly disapprove of...this business doesn't have that margin and the kit prices will go up even more if this continues...or the model companys will stop doing things that's has too expensive licensing fees...that's a fact. Caterpilar is probably a company that has very expensive licensing so that's why we don't get anything with the Caterpillar or CAT names anymore...the last issue of the AMT Caterpillar D8 dozer had no Caterpillar or CAT name what so ever anywhere...and that's sad as the model IS a Caterpillar and has always been. Caterpillar has also chased the small cottage aftermarket industy so we can't get many resin Caterpillar engines for our truck models either...and a more modern CAT 3406E, C15 or C16 engine would have been nice to be able to get for our builds. The only available CAT egines right now are the older 3406A-B from the Revell/Monogram KW W900 and Pete 359 snap kits and the 3408 from Revell Germany KW K900-T900...and the old 1693TA.

The only thing different from the Jo-Han Rambler S/C and Jo-Han and Testors Rambler Pro Street kits is the decals, everything else is the same, except the Testors HSO Rambler Pro Street kit has a photoetch fret for emblems and side markers. I did a "clone" myself for a friend some years ago, I painted the red on the sides and the blue stripe over the top, I also made the 390 cu in and AIR decals myself...it came out fairly good....I don't have any pictures of it tho'.

NOOOO!!! I was just kidding.