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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..

Here is an example of a Dry Sump.Oil System An example of a Fuel System. They started to use Vacuum Pumps in modern Pro Stock engines some years ago to make vacuum in the crank case wich makes horsepower, and many others use this system too...and here is a pic of how that system is set up. In fact the Pro Stock racers use two separate Vacuum systems now, one belt driven pump and one electric pump wich gives more vacuum for a short time and are only used under the run itself. A picture of the electric pump wich you can put anywhere on the car close to the engine. Hope this helps.

You can find an intake manifold and 4 Weber IDA's in the old AMT 63 Corvette kits, it's the only one I know of...oh...and it's for Big Block but as it's for a 1:25 scale kit it might fit a 1:24 Small Block, or widen it slighlty to fit the 1:24 Big Block. Otherwise Harold Bradford at Historic Racing Miniatures has very nice Weber IDA's in his resin Cobra FIA engine kits and F40 engine and suspension kits and he also sell the Weber IDA carbs and manifold separate...they are all for Ford Small Block but the carbs are usable. The manifold and carb kit costs around $10-11 at Strada Sports

There is also a limit on monthly traffic on a free account...and I have hit that a couple of times...but I'm far away from the storage limit. Otherwise Photobucket is good enough for me.

I have never done one yet but it's not rocket science so it can't be that hard. First of all, do a google search and find pictures of the part you want to do and study them closely...or even better...look at a real part,... try to replicate it with Evergreen or Plastruct rods, tubes and sheets to do the shapes you need, if you have a real part available you just measure the thing and divide the measurements by 24 or 25 depending on scale or if you dont you have to wing it a bit more and test fit often...and you might not get it right the first time. Another way is to copy an A-arm from a Revell/Monogram Pro Stock kit chassis...they don't differ much and looks basically the same from the early 80's up to today. That's what scratchbuilding is all about...trial and error, and you try until you get it right so you might have to do a couple wrong ones before you get one you're happy with.

I don't know of any airbrush that don't take regular lacquer or cellulose thinners for cleaning, maybe the Aztec doesn't wich is made from plastic. I have three airbrushes, one Thayer & Chandler Vega 2000 bottom feed, one Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH gravity feed and one cheap gravity feed airbrush bought at a hardware store, and I have never had any problems using lacquer or cellulose thinners in any of them...it's a tool used for painting and should take whatever thinners you would like to use in them without being destroyed. And for the Alclad...and other paints as well, allways use a regulator as lower pressures saves paint, and the Alclad doesn't need much pressure...but a bottom feed airbrush may need a bit more pressure to work right as the airflow draws the paint from the cup, a gravity feed needs less as the paint goes into the airbrush by itself. Lay the Alclad on thin, just as much to get coverage...too thick coats and you'll get "regular silver" and loose the chrome effect.

Well the Thunderbolt chassis should fit if the scale is correct as 1962-65 Fairlanes IRL has the same basic body and chassis. The 1966-67 Fairlanes has a different chassis as Ford did a totaly new Fairlane for 1966, that chassis looks much like the later Torino. I have a 1964 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe myself wich I have owned for about 10 years so I have read up on them a bit.

Most of the auxiliary roof mounted AC units had inbuilt fans and had the air vents coming out at the bottom of the unit so it sat over a hole in the roof, either where a roof hatch had been on trucks who had that or you had to cut a hole for it, so the cool air was blowing up around your head. The only thing needed extra except for the unit itself was an AC compressor on the engine and the hoses from it to the AC unit. I had a neighbour who had this kind of unit on one of his trucks back in the late 70's.

That's probably true,I have not seen that one myself. But I bought the roof section from him a while ago and he had both AMT and Revell roof sections at that time...I know that as he sent me the wrong one first but I got the correct one later.

Nice cars Walter. I just eyeballed and winged the colors when I built my Sox & Martin 71 'Cuda years ago, I didn't have much to go by when I built it tho' other than a zeroxed black and white Hot Rod article of their 70 'Cuda and the Jo-Han boxart...so it's not correct but looks decent enough.