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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.

I would also do it as Walter describes. Many drag cars has the fuel cell or tank in front nowadays to get help from gravity to feed the engine.

Replicas & Miniatures Co Of Maryland also has a resin repop of the AMT Chopped 3 Window roof as a separate piece, and one for the Revell/Monogram kit.

Michael: These parts came in several kits from several manufacturers so photos of the parts you're wondering about might be the only way to be able to tell where the parts came from without speculating wildly. Because they could be from a Jo-Han kit, AMT kit, Revell kit or allmost any other manufacturer who has done a scale 426 Hemi. Be sure to ask your question under this category "Model Building Questions and Answers" so this thread doesn't go off topic more than it has allready.

Well AMT didn't do the tractors, plows and farm wagon trailers for them, they were originally Ertl kits, but AMT did a re-issue of the John Deere 4430 and the 310 Backhoe some time ago. But The Ertl Company bought AMT and MPC back in the 80's, RC2 bought the Ertl Company in the late 90's and Round 2 bought the model kit business from RC2 and now have the tooling...so it's for sure possible if the tooling is allright.

And Revell re-issued the old Monogram 1:24 36 Ford 3 Window Coupe a couple of years ago.

Yes the Tyrone Malone Kenworth K100 trucks with transport body was to haul his Kenworth W900 race trucks Super Boss and Bandag Bandit.