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Ehh...the AMT 69 GTX Hard Top kits has the 440 6BBL engine...at least the 5 or 6 kits I've bought as donor kits does and it's the engine meant to use when building the kit according to the instructions, a complete 426 Hemi is also included together with some speed parts but it's not mentioned in the instructions, so it's a bonus. But the 68 Road Runner, the 69 GTX Convertible and the Pro Street kits of the Road Runner and GTX only has the Hemi option. So the 440 are from the 69 Plymouth GTX Hard Top or the 70 Dodge Coronet R/T

Yes that's the album with the unrestored Papa Truck I was talking about. Well I would if I could...but I have not seen any pics of the restored Hideout Truck either...all I know is that Gary Ries at Stagecoach now owns it together with most of the others, and it might still be under restoration...but there are lots of pics of it before restoration here when it still was in Fontana, CA owned by Wayne Talkington. http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/tyrone-malones-hide/ and here http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/bill-block-of-banda/ You could contact Ken Harris who drove the Papa Truck in the European tour in the late 80's and has this Fotki albums and ask, he might know something we don't...most of the information I have comes from him. His email address is under his about me page at Fotki.

Very nice!!

Polar Lights did the 69 Ford Torino Talladega, the 69 Mercury Cyclone and the 71-74 Dodge Charger NASCAR kits. But if you use the Revell skill level scale where 3 is most challenging the Polar Lights kits are about 5 or 6 as they need lots of work to do a good model that looks like anything...it's like they were rushed into production still in the developing stage. Revell has allready gone over to the dark side with the new kits of the 57 Ford Custom and 57 Chevy 150 "Black Widow", both in NASCAR versions, and Revell did a NASCAR kind of model of the 69 Dodge Charger Daytona, the Pro Modeler version has some NASCAR parts included...but it's not that accurate for a race car.

Yes the Glidden & Allen 70 Mustang was a tube chassis car and was used in 1975 as was the Dyno Don car, but it had a 366 Cleveland engine...no Boss 429 based 500 as the max 500 cid 2,350 lbs minimum veight rule didn't come until 1982...and that's what we still have today.

Yes the 426 Hemi is based on the RB design, but the Hemi block has 4 bosses on each side in the lifter valley for the Hemi heads upside down head bolts, 4 bolt (cross bolt) main caps for the 3 middle ones and a crank shaft with 6 bolt pattern for the flywheel/flexplate, the regular 383-440 had 5...but the outside apperence of the short block is pretty much the same otherwise. I agree with Tim. The Hemi version is a sure seller for the main part of the model builders, as are most of the other Hi Performance cars in the other car brands...just think about it, who wouldn't like to have "top of the line" car in his/her possession...I would for sure if I had the money...more main stream cars doesn't have the same appeal on people. The slant 6 version of a 70 Barracuda were probably not made in large numbers but they were made...and there are most likely less of them still untouched with us today than the Hemi cars...but if they did a kit of one I don't think it would outsell a kit of the Hemi 'Cuda. The way kits are made today with changeable tool inserts there are possibillitys for several versions and I think we will get lots of them based on this kit in the future, one may be a more correct AAR version than the last 2 attempts Revell made...and that has a 340. Another thing, lots of modelbuilders do a lot of kitbashing and change an engine isn't that hard, and if you don't want to buy a kit and rob the engine from it there are several engine versions available on the aftermarket to do the car you want.

The AMT C-600 is in fact a heavier spec C-800 so it will work nicely, it even reads 800 on the badges on the cab.

I have never seen one...but on the other hand, I haven't been looking for one.

I have both kits, the Stake Bed Truck has two frames, one short to do a tractor and one longer for the stake bed...but the frame for the City Delivery is even longer than that,

It looks to be the Revell Beretta Pro Street kit with Reher-Morrison/Levi Garrett decals, so the chassis comes with the kit and are the same for the Revell Pro Street C4 Corvette. and the Rick Dobbertin's J2000 Pontiac Pro Street.

SLIXX does decals for the Glidden Mustang. http://www.slixx.com/7005.htm?id=3472 They do one for Dyno Don Nicholsons Mustang as well. http://www.slixx.com/1305.htm?id=2836

Yes, it would be nice with a re-issue of all of Tyrone Malone's trucks, the Papa Truck Transporter, the Super Boss race truck, the Hideout Truck Transporter and Bandag Bandit race truck...I have them all but I wouldn't say no to a re-issue.

Looks to be yes.

Yes he does, and they are good...but no chrome...I have bought a couple of sets for my Tyrone Malone Transporters from him to make them more correct and Alclad II to the resque as we don't have plastic plating service for hobbyists over here. But they switched to chromed 2-hole Budd wheels with tubeless tires on the Transporters and Boss Truck later in their life so it depends on what version you're doing. If you browse around in Ken Harris albums you'll find lots of pics of the Boss Truck, among them these of the truck in pieces in Texas http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/the-boss-truck-of-a/ One thing there is that the frame and wheelbase is streched and the rear part of newer frame rails with a KW 8-bag Air Glide 100 suspension is grafted on wich is wrong for this truck. The Air Glide 100 wasn't available in 1971 (as far as I know) and the truck originally had the earlier 4-bag air ride and a quite short wheelbase...on a couple of pics you see on the white part of the frame just behind the sleeper where the 4-bag suspension was originally mounted.

I have some pics of the unrestored Papa Truck where you can see the interrior, and parts of the chassis. I don't remember where I found them tho', it might have been at Ken Harris Fotki albums or his old Tyrone Malone website, there are some small pics of the unrestored truck in the Tyrone Malone Album but they are very small and hard to see any details. But the interrior were left original VIT 200 Bicentennial so it's red white and blue with some swirl wood here and there. If you go to the link and have a look around there are pics of the unrestored Hideout Truck and lots of them and they are great references, but the truck was repainted sometime after AMT did the kits and the paint scheme are not quite as on the model kit...same goes for the Papa Truck.

I mentioned that in my first post, but there's not much difference between 1:24 and 1:25 and it must be possible to modify the 1:25 part to fit a 1:24 scale engine, maybe make it a bit longer and wider and you must be close...so it can't be that big a problem. afx: I have no idea what type of Weber intake manifold the Chaparral cars had, I just mentioned the ones I know are available wich isn't much, but it can't be that hard to modify the intake to resemble the one in your pic or maybe even scratch build one with some Evergreen plastic stock, the shapes looks easy enough to copy. Bill: Yes it's from the AMT 63 Corvette and it's in all issues after what I know...and even the 63 Corvette Convertible has this set up.

Very nice model. I hate to be a spoiler but according to my references on the Papa Truck the frame was painted gold, Papa Truck was built on a 1976 Kenworth VIT 200 Bicentennial Edition truck and all of those had pale gold chassis. The AMT kit has a couple more inaccuracies, the Papa Truck had Kenworth's Torsion Bar Suspension and not the 8-bag Air Glide 100 that's in the kit, and the wheels was either chromed Truck Mate 5-hole rims...or later chromed Budd 2-hole rims. But the current owner Gary Ries/Stagecoach Diesel Motorsports has changed to 10 hole Alcoa rims...he also now owns the Hideout Truck (the transporter for Bandag Bandit) and in the fairly recent pics I have seen of it it also had 10-hole Alcoa wheels. Most of this is not that visible so it might not matter that much if you're not picky about details. Here is a goldmine of references on the Tyrone Malone trucks, browse around in Ken Harris albums and you'll find lots of pics from back in the day and more recent pics of the trucks. http://public.fotki.com/superboss1/

I don't have a picture of the actual parts but here is a pic of the instructions from the Drastic Plastic Fotki Albums.

As far as I know many of the NHRA legal Gassers had "nose-up stance" in the 60's, but the regulations didn't allow more than 24 inches from the ground to the centerline of the crank shaft in the Gas classes.

Nice build. I'm planning to do one myself and I have followed your build with great interest.

I have seen the Boss Truck of America with 5 or 6 different paint schemes. The Boss Truck wasn't really lost to the shop fire but it was severely damaged...it still exists as you can see in Richards link but it's in a bad shape. Most of the trucks was sold off after Jerry "Tyrone" Malone died in 1997 and was spread all over the country, The Boss Truck Of America is in parts in Texas, the Whale Truck is also in Texas, the Bandag Bandit is owned by Bandag/Bridgestone, the Super Boss, Papa Truck, Hurricane and Defience trucks, and the Smokey Bear Corvette are owned by Gary Ries/Stagecoach Diesel Motorsports, the Hideout Truck was in Fontana, CA until recently but is now owned by Ries/Stagecoach too.

You're welcome. Don't ask me where I found it 'cause I don't have a clue...it's found somewhere on the "interweb", I have saved all I have found on the Tyrone Malone trucks so far.

You're welcome. Even if you know the basic components and where they are placed on the engine it's easier to understand how they work if you actually see how the lines are routed.

Wich ones...the AMT or HRM?? I don't have any pics of either of them but someone else might have.

Here is the only pic I have found of the interrior of the Boss Truck Of America's sleepers...but it's impossible to see if it's walk through between them...it's doesn't look as if it is to the drivers cab though..