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Nice build Pavel. I had the same idea for improving the rear wheels as you use on this one when I bought my Revell (ex Monogram) Kenworth and Peterbilt Snap kits some time ago, I haven't built them yet but I didn't like the shallow look on the original kit wheels so I tried Italeri outer rings and it looked a lot better...so that's what I'm going to use when I build my kits too...I don know wich tires to use yet but that will for sure clear up when I start the build.

Those pictures are screen captures from the movie so the original owner of the rights should be MGM as in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM Studios Inc. 245 N Beverly Dr Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA Phone: (310) 440-3000 I'm looking forward to more updates on this build.

I'm following this build with great interest as I'm planning to build one myself in the future. One thing tho' the name of the driver (handle: "Love Machine"/"Pig Pen") of the Paulie Hauling Mack Cruiseliner in the movie is apperantly Bobby and not Paulie. That's the name Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald says when he wants Melissa to help "Pig Pen" in the meeting with the New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins when he himself is leaving to get "Spider Mike" in Alvarez TX. Burt Young who played "Pig Pen" has played a caracter named Paulie in the Rocky movie from 1976, and some says that the Paulie Hauling name comes from that and it could possibly be so as the Rocky movie predates the Convoy movie wich are from 1978...but I don't know.

I just got me a set of Bens 2-hole Budds for trailers (casted by Jamie) for an upcomming BJ And The Bear Truck/Trailer project and I have to say they are top notch. I also got a couple of sets of 10-hole wide fronts with high flotation tires at the same time, and I got a couple of sets of Truck Mate 5-hole wheels earlier for my Tyone Malone Transporters...and they are of the same quality,

Well after what I know NHRA Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car uses 36 X 17.5-16 tire code 2681, they are 36.6 inches in actual diameter, 17.3 actual thread width and are for 16 inch beadlock rim...and of course the hight grows with speed. Pro Stock uses 33.5 X 17-16 with 33.4 actual diameter, 17.4 inch actual thread width and 16 inch beadlock rims. Alcohol classes and Pro Mod use either 34.5 X 17-16 or 36 X 17-16. All this according to Good Year themselves http://www.racegoodyear.com/tires/pdf/Drag_010313.pdf

Great work on the trailer. I have planned to do one sometime in the future also.

The Tyrone Malone trucks, the Super Boss, Papa Truck; Bandag Bandit and Hideout Truck fetches horridious money on "fleabay" nowadays. I also would like to see the old ERTL Great Dane Reefer again.

I've got the AITM Rubber Duck resin kit, it's a very nice kit but unfortunately it doesn't have the correct Tip Turbine air cleander.

Don't know about resin but there is a set in the recent Revell Farkonas, Coil & Minnick Chi-Town Hustler 69 Charger Funny Car. That set has beadlock rings but they are the only ones I'm aware of.

Looks promising. This is one of my favourite kits too.

One more source for starfish wheels for the Son Of Ford is the old Monogram Tijuana Taxi that was reissued a couple of yeras ago, this kit might be the easiest to find.

Very nice, I like what I see so far.

Very Nice!!!

well I think the rules stipulates that Funny Car bodies must have door and hood lines, most of the NHRA Funny Cars I have seen has them, they are very faint but they are there.

A very nice build you have there. Regarding door markings on funny car bodies. It's correct that funny cars doesn't have doors but I have been around funny cars some over the years and I have seen bodies both with and without door and hood markings. And I know John Force and his team cars had these door and hood markings on the bodies up to 2010 as I have seen it in person on some of his cars and I have pictures where they show, you must go close to see them because they are very faint but they are there.

This looks like it will be a cool build and I will follow it with great interest.

Great looking model!!! Porsche 917K is a favourite of mine from that era and I have a couple on my shelf waiting to be built.

I can't wait to lay my hands on this cool truck!

Very nice!!! I remember seeing this car in Hot Rod Magazine many many years ago, I even had a picture of it on my wall.

Don't take my comment the wrong way. I really like your model a lot and was just trying to give out constructive critisism...but that seems to have backfired big time. I'm sorry if I offended you, because that was not my meaning at all.

3 to 5 mils sounds very thick for vinyl decals, if they are layered they should be more like 1 to 1.5 mil at the most as the vinyl the decals are made from is very thin and a single vinyl decal might be a couple of tenths in thickness. But I can understand if the teams would clearcoat over the vinyl stickers to reduce drag as the edges of the decals might disturb the airflow on a super speedway car.

This is a very nice representation of this car and I really like it a lot. The only thing I can complain about is the placing of the dual distributors, it looks a bit strange where they are now...as they could have been on a Ford engine. It should look more like this. Or like this

Nice looking model you have there. The Reher Morrison '83 Camaro was the first "modern" Pro Stock model I attempted back in the day together with Bob Glidden's Chief Auto Parts/7-Eleven Thunderbird, I still have it on my shelf but it's not nearly as nice as yours.

I have also tried dullcoat with good results, I usually use Humbrol #135 Satin to knock down the shine of the chrome plating to replicate a brushed aluminum look. And the Humbrol colors is enamel so they usually don't react with the plating.

It began with LEGO and I moved on to cheap Matchbox military models and Matchbox and Airfix airplanes at first, then I discovered car model kits and was seriously hooked on those so gave up everything else and have been doing cars and trucks ever since. I don't know exactly when I started but I believe I'm comming up to about 40 years now as I started with plastic models in the early 70's, and I think I have built model cars and trucks for about 35.