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I haven't shown much of my work on this forum so I thought I would change that and show some pics of one of my old builds. I saw a nice 58 Impala with yellow and white paint and green interrior here in town when we had a car show back in 1995 and I thought I should do a copy of that one, so this model was started in 1996 and finished a couple of years later. It's an old AMT kit built mostly out of box but with some detailing and aftermarket stuff such as American Satco tires, Model Car Garage photo etch set, BMF for the trim, flocking and some wiring and photo etched pieces for the engine. The paint is rattle can car touch up paint, the yellow is a VW/Audi color and the white is Volvo, and finally clear over the whole thing.

Nice build Sean!!

Here is a link to a nice set of Daisys on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Resin-1-25-American-200-S-Daisy-Mag-Wheels-Wide-Narrow-Set-/321268246808?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item4acd146918

I'm eager to see this project in the works...so hurry up will you.

No offence taken.

Yes I know that, but the first Badman kit I built back in the mid 70's had two Daisy Mags...I still have them. But they are not that difficult to find on the aftermarket in resin. Daniel: The TLB movie isn't that good at all due to the reasons you gave, it's just the car that's cool...very cool. They had planned to end the movie with a crash, but they decided to leave it to the viewer to figure it out by themselves and did the ending with the film stopping in the projector gate and got burned through by the hot bulb instead...that's why the stunt car never were used in the TLB movie.

Why would you want them to be removable...I mean it's on a model and how often do you think you will take them off? But if you want them to be removable just take a look at how real ones are attached on the particular car in question and you will probably get an idea how to do this, but there are as many attachment setups as there are manufacturers of fender skirts.

Nice going Alan, keep up the good work.

Yes, but to put a body from an X frame car on a perimeter frame you have to cut the complete floor out and do a new one, but on a back halfed X frame chassis you only have to redo the rear end, so it's half the work...on a real car that is. Then we have the issue with the 7 inch difference in wheelbase, the Chevelle has 112" and the 61 Impala has 119". But on the other hand, the chassis on a full out Pro Street car could also be an all fabricated square tube, or Pro Stock type round tube chassis, with full rollcage, in that case you only use the outer body shell from the original car...it all depends on how far you want to take it.

Nice Blue Mule truck...I like the "Iron Lung" modification. I agree with Terry, no one should waste their money on the old ERTL Rubber Duck kit, it's all wrong and almost nothing is usable to do the movie truck if you want to do it right...I bought the ERTL kit back in the day when it was new and started to build it, but it never got finished due to all faults and most of the parts were used elsewhere. The AMT R model is a far better starting point and the AITM resin kit is based on that and it's very nice, the movie truck was a RS700L tho' so it has a longer hood than the AMT kit, it also has an Able Body 60 inch sleeper, an air foil for the roof, 2-hole budds, a bull bar, a duck hood ornament and some other stuff you have to supply from someplace...the resin kit has all parts needed to do a curbside truck...no engine.

Great work.

Well the car after the crash when it burns was just a non running junk car borrowed from a local salvage yard, it was a hard top but with a piece of wood in the middle of the side windows to resemble a 2-door sedan and was returned to the salvage yard after the burning. So the stunt car was just used for the crash scene but not the explosion and burning.

Not exactly true,...yes all three are basically the same kits but the first kit can only be built stock with what's in the box. The Goodguys and Pro Modeler kits on the other hand can be built two ways, stock or street rod so they contains more parts. The recent chopped 48 Ford Coupe are also based on these kits with some different new parts.

Maybe because it's wrong for the car. The 58-64 Impala has a X frame and the Chevelle has a perimeter frame...so if you want to do it correctly the Chevelle chassis woun't work. The Impala got perimeter frame 1965.

You can find two wider ones for the rear in the Monogram Bad Man 55 Chevy and the AMT 63 Impala has a set of more regular width.

Yes I would jump with joy if we had the same prices as you do in the US, I'm doing as you Mike and order most of my models directly from the States, and even tho' I have to pay for shipping, customs fee and sales tax it's still cheaper than to buy them here. For a regular 20-25 Dollar kit you have to at least double the price to get what we have to pay in stores over here. Good five-hole wheels you can get from Ben Wicker http://bwicke9.wix.com/class-a-resin

Ken Harris, the owner of the http://www.tyronemalone.net and http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/ websites has changed email as he lost the password to his hotmail, so he has a new one now, it's shermantank35@gmail.com and I contacted him not that long ago...Ken also has a Facebook site with lots of pictures and information https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tyrone-Malone-and-the-Bandag-diesel-racing-team/189062841121878 He might be able to help you contact the current owner of the Defiance Gary Reis at Stagecoach Diesel Motorsports Museum. Gary also owns the Super Boss, the Papa Truck, the Hideout Truck, the Smokey Bear Corvette, the Old Blue whale truck, and I think he has bought the Boss Truck of America too.

Looks nice Sean.

The "Bad Brahma Bull" White has the engine in front of the drive axle but the Defiance has it right above the drive axle so somekind of transfer box / drop box / V-Drive is needed to transfer the power to the drive axle. The Allison 1710 was available as both right or left hand rotation versions and if you take off the propeller reduction gear not needed for this aplication the crank shaft turns the opposite way the propeller did as the reduction gear only has two gear wheels...a small on the crank shaft and a larger on the propeller shaft.

The picture you link to Andy is when the original owner/builder Jerald McBee had it, Tyrone Malone bought it from him later and had it repainted pink. I'm affraid you have to "wing it" Alan because I haven't found any good information on this truck other than it's 21 feet 6½ inches total length, has the Allison 1710, an Allison 5 speed automatic and a Timkin rear end. Most likely it also has a V-drive or a drop box style gear to change the drive to the rear axle considering the engine placement as the power outtake is towards the cab, and I believe it's only the last axle that drives.

This is a magazine I don't want to miss, I get every issue and just bought the new one Monday this week...I have just flipped through it so far but I'm gonna read it soon.

Most of "the club of four" cabs were COE's and were used by Volvo, DAF, Magirus/Iveco, Saviem/Renault and MACK for their light and medium trucks.

Yes...more power equals more heat so they need more cooling, that's the reason they abandoned the narrow nose trucks in the late 60's and did a wider hood so they could fit a wider radiator for better cooling. High horsepower engines from all suppliers often needed more room, for instance the Detroit 12V-71, Cat 1693 and Cummins KTA 600 as they are quite long and some are also taller than the less powerful engines.

Those cabs looks European as you say, but they are not Scania. they look more like a Volvo F4-F6 COE cab with a nose attached, that cab was also used by Magirus, DAF and Renault...and I have seen small MACK COE's with this cab. One thing tho', they have mounted the doors the other way around on these, the cutout in front are for the wheel wells on the COE's. Volvo owns MACK since some years back so that might be the reason.

I know the "standard engine" in many of the Peterbilt 281/351, 282/352 trucks from that era was Cummins NHC 250 but there were other options as well, the NTA 370 might be one, Detroit Diesel 6-71, 8V-71 and 12V-71, possibly some Cat 1160 V8, 1673 I6, 1693 I6 and 1676 V8 found their way into some Pete's. I'm speculating a bit here but this question are for Tim Ahlborn, he would know for sure.