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Bandit Resins has a nice 68 Super Stock Barracuda kit with body, bumpers, grille rear valance panel, hood, hood scoop, glass, nice chassis and engine bay, interior tub, Bostrom seats...all you need to do a Super Stock Hemi Barracuda except for front subframe, engine, drive train and wheels. I bought one on ebay some time ago. Otherwise I would also use the AMT 71 Plymouth Duster chassis, it's a better fit than the Revell Dart.

The White Freightliner Dual Drive was also MY first big rig model and I managed to do a decent model out of it...but that was nearly 40 years ago.

I hate to be a spoiler but the re-issued Glidden Pro Stock Ford Thunderbird Revell is doing is too new for this paint scheme. This decal is for the first Pro Stock Thunderbird Bob had in the 1983 season, before the Chief Autoparts/7-Eleven cars from 1984-85 (wich Monogram did) and the Chief Autoparts car from 1986 wich he rolled and crashed at the NHRA Southern Nationals 1986 (never done in model as far as I know). The car Revell is re-issuing now is the 1987-88 Motorcraft car, the Ford Tunderbird had some body revisions for 1987, a new nose piece with with no grille and different headlights and rear panel with new tail lights, Bob only had the red and white Motorcraft paint scheme on that car and ran this body style for only two seasons, and for the 1989 season he changed to a Ford Probe. But if you go ahead and do this decal it will fit the earlier 1984-86 Bob Glidden/Rickie Smith/Butch Leal issues of the Pro Stock Thunderbird (they also did a Pro Street version with the 83-86 body), and I for one would consider buying this decal as I think it looks nicer than the Chief Autoparts/7-Eleven scheme.

Nice build! I know it's too late for your build but here are a couple of detail shots for the Dyno Don Mustang II, the only ones I have found. As you see they ran small block engines at that time in Pro Stock (in this case a 351 Cleveland) but your car could maybe be a Match Racer.

I emailed Steve on a couple of R & R models the other day, it was a '50 Mercury Convertible wich he only had one left...and now he has none, and the '62 Cadillac 2dr HT Coupe DeVille but it was unfortunately sold out...I really wanted that one as I think '62 Cadillac 2dr HT's are cool... so if anyone know where to get one I'm interested.

AMT and Monogram also did CART Indy Cars in the late 80's early 90's, it was back in the days Indy Car racing was something to see. AMT did March. Lola and Penske cars, and Monogram did Lola and March cars.

I have seen this one in person at the Goodguys Southwest Nationals in Scottsdale AZ in November 2011, it's one of the total six 36 Ford 2 Door Sedans special ordered by Allegheny Ludlum Steel with all stainless steel outer panels, the car is owned by Lon Kueger and Leo Gephardt if it's not sold since then. The original order was for ten cars but the press tools wore out after just six and these six 36 2-Door Sedans are the last made of that body style that year. Here is a picture I took of the car at the Goodguys meet at Westworld.

Yes they did.

Impressive!!

I have worked with radiators for a year and a half in a radiator shop making and repairing car and truck radiators. It's easier to do a pass through hole in the core square and loose very little cooling capacity if any, if you do a round hole it's more difficult to reconnect the tubes above and around the hole to the rest of the core, because you don't want to loose any more circulation than necessary.

I think I'll hold on to my 1984 original instead of buying the new one, I still have one in my stash. This is a perfect example of why one shouldn't modify existing tooling to do a newer kit, the modifications are irreversible and you can't do the original kit again in it's original state. It must be a lot better to tool up the kits so you can do revised parts in separate tool inserts, in that case you still have the original parts intact and can re-issue all versions whenever you like...I thought Revell had learned that by now.

Casey - Yes I saw that episode when the American Trucker series was televised over here,,,but I don't remember what the reefer unit was called. But looking for old service manuals is a good tip to find out what they are called. KJ790 - the AMT unit could be a Crown 500...but it's on a Fruehauf Reefer trailer, not a Great Dane.

It has to do with the molds for the cab/car body and how they are done. Some are "slush cast" where the caster slushes the resin around in the mold until it hardens and the thickness varys quite a lot over the body/cab...but hopefully no reputable caster uses that technique anymore as the castings demands lots and lots of work to be usable. Nowadays most of the body/cab molds are done in two pieces, one outside and one inside and the resin is poured in the small space between them, and the thickness depends on how big the gap between the outer and inner mold is. I have only one kit from AITM and that's nice and crisp, so I don't have anything to complain about.

It's a 362 from South Africa as far as I can see...maybe Australia built as it's right hand drive...but I don't know about the high top.

Thanks, I kind of suspected that but I didn't know for sure. I have tried to find out what the different Thermo King models are called but I can't find much information on the "interweb" on the older units, I know one type is called Super Boss...but I don't know wich...it can be the model I'm looking for. And if you do a google search on Thermo King Super Boss you get a lot of pictures of Tyrone Malone's Super Boss truck as his main sponsor was Thermo King before Bandag...it's a cool truck but not exactly what I'm looking for.

It looks nice Anthony. The only things that bugs me about this kit (and the Peterbilt 359 kit) are the shallowness of the rear wheels, the missing sun visors and the mounting of the rear mudflaps are too far back on the frame...otherwise it's a decent kit. cavespeedway - This kit is a Revell ex Monogram snap kit and this together with the Peterbilt 359 they also have are 1:25th scale.

No that's another type of unit (I don't know what make and type it is) wich looks like this. And this is the one I'm after. As you see they are different units, thanks anyway. This type of Thermo King unit has also been done by Heller for their 3-axle Reefer trailer. The pictures are borrowed from this excellent website http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/ and all credits goes to him.

This looks to become a nice model Sean. Sox & Martin is my favourites and I have plans to build several of their cars sometime in the future, I have boult one tho' and it's the 71 'Cuda.

Sean- I have plans to build these trucks myself so I have recently done the research on them...so you're welcome to it. I have some vague memories from the Movin' On series from when it was on TV over here in Sweden maybe a year or so after it was televised in USA, but that's a long time ago and I was very young then, maybe 11-12 or something like that. I built the AMT version later sometime in the late 70's, it has survived and I still have it in my collection The BJ And The Bear series hasn't been on TV here but I like the appearance of the truck so I'll build it anyway.

173 views and still no answer, so it must be as i suspected then...nothing available. That's okay, I'll have to rely on my scratchbuilding skills then and do my own, I have one Ertl Thermo King unit on a built trailer to take measures from.

Yes that's correct...I don't know if the were flat black but they were indeed black, he also painted the fuel tank bright white on many of his race cars to reflect off heat so the fuel would be cooler and more dense, I don't know if he did that on this car though.

Yes, the Chinese can do good things if they want to, it's just the matter of quality demands and pricing as you get what you pay for even in China.

There are different versions and modified re-issues made of many kits by the different owners of the companys over the years and some of the tooling might not be in the model they were designed for originally as some kits share some tooling, and some has been altered beyond use, so it can be a hard task to find, sort everything out and see what's workable, so yes a complete tooling inventory must be essential to know what you have and where it is...and as Case says, they probably don't want to reviel that information publicly. Round 2 doesn't only have the AMT and MPC tooling, they also have the old Ertl, the Lindberg and the Polar Lights tooling so it's a large chunk of tool steel to go over. So I see more nice seldom seen and improved interesting re-issues in the future, and I for one welcome that....but sure, it would also be nice to see a totally new tooling kit now and then.

The last new AMT tools were the 57 Chrysler 300C's, the 58 Plymouth Belvedere, the 58 Edsel Pacer, the 60 Ford Starliner Coupe's, the 62 Pontiac SD 421, the 62 Ford Thunderbird, the 66 Ford Fairlanes, the 67 Ford Mustang and Shelby, the 68-69 Plymouth Roadrunner-GTX and 70 Dodge Coronet, the 70½ Chevy Camaros, the 71 Plymouth Duster, all these kits were developed in the mid to late 90's before the RC2 era in the early 2000's and I have most certainly forgotten a few, but these are the ones I came to think of right now. After RC2 took over there weren't that many new kits made, a few new Camaros and Challengers and maybe one or two more, the rest were straight or slightly modified re-issues of kits that were plentiful on the market allready with totaly boring boxart. I don't know the financial status of Round 2 LLC but we must not kid ourselves, they are in this business to make money...that's the main thing, and if they don't they'll stop making kits...that's the bare fact.

You will never get the drive shaft to line up exactly in the middle of the frame with this rear axle setup with the reduction gearing over to the left side and not in the middle...and that is as it should be. So the drive shaft will go over slightly off center to the left side however you do...but the wheel base on this kit is so short so it looks to be more that usual. And if you check on a rear wheel drive car the drive shaft is slightly off to one side there too as the pinion is over to one side of the ring gear. and not exactly in the middle...so that's not uncommon. But other trucks has a rear axle setup where the reduction gearing is exactly in the middle so the drive shaft will line up in the center of the chassis.