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I have a real 1963½ Galaxie 500XL and I will follow this closely.

It's gonna be nice Tom. I seems like Flintstone grafted in a 49-50 back window, or lengthened the quarter panels on a 49 body on this one. Because the back window opening is totally different on the 51 and much larger.

It looks like I'm stiffed again because I have not got the #217 yet, I also live in Sweden like Claes who got his copy February 21st, and it has been over a month and I still haven't not got mine...it's a week into April now for gods sake. I don't know where the problem lies, if it's with the post delivery in here in Sweden or if it's with the bulk shipper you are using, somewhere somehow magazines seems to disappear in to a dark hole and never reach the subscriber. Issue #216 came as it should tho'. I subscribe to another magazine from the US and it seems to come sporadically too so I suspect some of the problems can be with Postnord, the Swedish post delivery, since they changed to every other day delivery a while ago it hasn't been that reliable. This is starting to get very frustrating.

It's not just the "bubble" that's different, the nose is longer on the later Firebird/Trans Am bodies too and things like the wheel openings and back sections are shaped differently, so to do a Skoal Bandit car with a correct appearence you need the whole body. The body Revell did wich was Prudhommes car 1984-85 and the earlier Pepsi Challenger Trans Am from 1982-83 had the same body. And one of the later Skoal Bandit cars from 1987 or 1988. The nose of the body was changed even during the Pepsi-Wendy's sponsorship , this must be 1985 because he took a year off 1986 due to lack of sponsorship. This one is not the same as the Skoal Bandit bodies, just the earlier body with a longer nose.

No the end cap at the rear of the AMT torsion bar setup is not there, I have one W925 and one K123 originals with torsion bar suspension and I just checked. The aftermarket setup is easier to build than the original AMT setup.

They are all the same basic kit, and one has some Aussie stuff and a pup trailer...but the basic kit are the same. Here is the different versions. 1994, box marked 1:24 but it is 1:25 like most of the other Revell Germany US truck kits. Here is the version with the Aussie parts and the pup trailer from 1995, box also marked 1:24. 2012 and now the box is marked 1:25. 2022-23, still marked 1:25. Revell did not do two different kits of the same subject so close in scale and as far as I know there are no W900 kits available in 1:24th scale. Here are all versions of the Revell Germany Kenworth W900/T900 listed in order and you can see for yourself that the scale markings differ from version to version, but it's the same basic kit from 1992.

Well Revell did a few versions of the K100 with the flat top roof. 1984, the first one I bought and I still have it as a tri-drive from 1986 1990 And the latest issue from 2016 Sorry for the hijack Anthony

It looks really good and I'm looking forward to be able to get this dash so keep us updated on when it will be available to get...because I will get several for my K100 Aerodyne kits. I'm really glad I was able to convince you to do it because this has been missing from the market since forever it seems like. Nuts and bolts are allways welcome to be able to detail our kits, so I'm in.

AMT has 2 different 57 Chevy tools and that's the old tool 57 Chevy wich was first issued 1963 and has been reissued over and over since then, the tooling the Pro Shop 57 Chevy and the other ones I listed above was first issued in 1997 some years before Racing Champions bought the company and are totally different.

The Revell Germany K100 kit was available both as a flat top and an Aerodyne, same kit with different roof sections and I have several of both. Nice build Anthony

AMT did a non Pro Shop version of the same kit with pretty much the same parts count except for the photo etch and rubber parts. Here are the different versions of this kit as far as I know. Standard non Pro Shop kit and first version of this new tooling kit from 1997 #8315 The Pro Shop kit with rubber and photoetch parts from 1998 #8455, otherwise it's the same kit as the above Reissue of the non Pro Shop kit, it's a 2 door post sedan on the picture but it's a hard top. #8315 Reissue of the non Pro Shop kit with Coca Cola decals #H862 And a Pro Street version based on the same tooling from 1998 #8319

I think 1966 was the first year for this kit and this is the second issue from 1970's and it was later reissued under the Lindberg brand a couple of times.

It's funny, some people insists that the Revell Germany Kenworth W900 is 1:24th scale, yes some of the boxes of the different versions of this kit says 1:24th scale but all versions are based on the same kit bcause they did not do 2 different kits in different scales, and it really is 1:25th scale like it says on other boxes with versions of this kit. I covered all versions of the Revell Germany KW W900 kits in this topic back in August. I have not compared the chassis on the Revell and AMT kits but it could be like you say.

Hey Scott, where are we with the K100 Aerodyne dash?

I was planning to do just that on my build when I get to it, splice in the rear section of the AMT chassis to the Revell AG front section.

Mark Stracener who bought the only known Movin On TV series truck from season 1, one of the 1974 "Sundance" trucks, from Paul Sagehorn a couple of years ago and currently owns it, he is restoring it back to it's former glory with the correct Cummins VT903, torsion bar suspension and all, he do have a set of the TV series correct 22 inch split ring Alcoa wheels for tube tires but tires for them are not that easy to get hold of these days so he will use the newer tubeless style 11.00-24½ Alcoas for now. There aren't many tire manufacturers who does 11.00-22 tires for trucks these days and Mark at Twin Stick Garage (youtube channel) had difficulty getting tires for his Snowman replica build, finally he managed to get a set of 10 but it wasn't easy and most likely not cheap. Here is a video of the "Sundance" truck as it was 6 months ago.

As Gerry says, there are many to choose from, but you have to decide if you are going to do a Mk I, Mk II, J-Car or MK IV For Mk I you have the Revell GT and the newly issued 68-69 MK I (reboxed Fujimi), the Fujimi kits and the old Testors/IMC/Union kits. Mk II Fujimi, Revell (reboxed Fujimi), Meng and IMC/Testors/Union kits J-Car IMC/Testors/Union and MPC. Mk IV IMC/Testors/Union and MPC There are also some aftermarket stuff for the GT 40's, both complete kits and conversion kits

As the 289 and 302 (except Boss) pretty much are the same you can look for parts for a 302. I can't remember right now if I have seen anything like you are looking for but the Weber intake manifold can be converted to fuel injection with some injector stacks and a few modifications. But I believe the Ford racers prefered to use the larger more powerful FE instead of the small block for racing in the "heavier" classes and I don't think I have seen many blown 289's except for Paxtons back in the day.

This I will follow. I plan to build one of the Movin' On trucks myself and have gathered lots of pictures and information as well as the DVD's of both seasons. The second season trucks were 1975 models and are slightly different from the first season 1974 model trucks.

I have both the Meng and Fujimi kits and both has their drawbacks, but I think the body has better proportions on the Fujimi kit, but as Justin says all the Fujimi GT 40 kits are curbside. The Meng kit is full detail but has some issues and I belive it's based on their 1:12 kit and the wheels and some other parts are not that great as some details are quite crude representations of what they are supposed to be.

The red sided car was only used a short ammount of time and was crashed, and in 1973 only as I understand it. All the pictures of it I have seen the red sided car has Pro 3 on it and in the 1972 season he had Pro 100.

I'm looking forward to see the progress.

It came out beautiful. Nice work Mark.

Yes it's supposed to be that way, the U-joints takes up that angle difference as well as the differences in hight. No axles as far as I know has the drive shaft in the center of the axle, it's more or less off center depending on manufacturer and how the power dividers on the forward axle are made. How much angle difference there are from the center depends on the distance between the center support bearing and the forward axle, on a longer drive shaft it's not as visible as on a short one. As you see here the drive shaft is not exactly in the center. And this one

This one? I may have a few more but these are the ones I found right now.