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Yes it's Kenworth, but not a K100, it's a W900 with the drop front part, the K100 has straight rails. That particular frame on your picture landman is a single drive and it's from Tyrone Malone's race trucks, Super Boss and Bandag Bandit. For information, the chassis designation wich Kenworth did away with in the 70's was K125 and W925 for the torsion bar suspension with dual drive, and K121 and W921 if it was single drive (no tag or pusher axle) regardless of suspension type.

I believe the 1964 and 1965 are long gone, the 1966 is the only one left from those years. AMT did a 1964 Convertible and a 1964 Hard Top, a 1965 Convertible and a 1965 Hard Top and a 1966 Convertible with a separate Hard Top section you glue on so no Hard Top body for the 1966, the bodies on these were different as the 1964 and 1965 had a separate body for the Convertible and Hard Top wich were sold as separate kits and the 1966 a Convertible with a separate Hard Top roof section as I said wich the others doesn't have, the 1966 has been reissued about 7 times over the years since it first came out, the others were only issued once. I have one 1965 Hard Top annual kit in the stash, not for sale, and I bought it on ebay some years ago, there are also promotion models of the 1965 HT in 1:25th scale, a friend of mine has one.

Not that I'm aware of. Most ran the 427 SOHC or 429 Boss.

If it's the AMT kit we are talking about the answer is yes. The T600 uses the same chassis and drive train as the W925 wich is not really correct for a T600.

They are pretty much like the tires in the White Freightliner kits because they are the same size as them, but when they cleaned up and modified the tooling and took away the side markings they must have taken too much away in the center of the tires as the White Freightliner wheels are loose in them...and they are the largest truck wheels AMT have done together with the wheels in the Diamond REO and the Autocar kits, the 10-hole Alcoa's in the Kenworth K100 Aerodyne also use these the same tire size. They are definately not 1:24 because AMT has not developed and done any 1:24th scale kits ever, no trucks and no cars, the 1:24 scale truck and trailer kits Round 2 have issued lately are Italeri kits in AMT boxes. So the parts pack tires are meant for their own kits...unfortunately they don't have any parts pack wheels that fits these tires. AMT has only done two tire sizes for their truck kits, 10.00-20 and 11.00-22, and ERTL had 11.00-20 in their truck kits wich is larger both in diameter and width than the AMT 10.00-20 tires and they are slightly smaller in diameter than the AMT 11.00-22 tires.

Not exactly as these are nameless tires, and I tried the wheels from the AMT White Freightliner kit and they are loose in these but fits snuggly in the kit tires.

I believe they are supposed to be the same size as the tires in the White Freightliner FLA kits, and they are marked 11.00-22 like the parts box wheels are on the package. But I tried a White Freightliner wheel in the parts pack tire and it's a bit loose, so the inside diameter of the tire is slightly larger than the kit tires where the wheel fit snuggly. 22.5 is modern tubeless tires and 22 is tube tires and 20 inch tube tires was replaced with 22.5 tubeless, 22 inch tube tires was replaced with 24.5 inch tubeless tires, so the outside diameter are very close and you can pair up a 20 inch wheel with a 22.5 inch wheel and likewise for the 22 and 24.5.

It's not just the ERTL John Deere, Massey Ferguson and International farm tractors, plows and wagons and the John Deere backhoe that's missing, the tooling for the International Transtar II Eagle wich last saw daylight 1996 is also under some tarp somewhere, the kits with the metal components like the Volvo N10 and some others are also somewhere in some unknown location. I don't know but Tomy who owns ERTL might still sit on them but they don't do model kits so I can't understand why, it's not like the model kits are in competition with their die cast line.

Nice build there Sean, yes the snap kits are not that bad, the only thing I really don't like with them are the wheels but you can do decent builds with the kits. For the Movin' On trucks, my research continues all the time and I still pick up things about them now and then, I even have found the build sheets for the season 1 trucks wich has consecutive VIN's, #143604 wich is still with us used to be owned by Paul Sagehorn and now owned by Mark Stracener, and #143605 wich is lost, the two season 2 trucks has also disappeared after the show. So I adjust my statements on these trucks when I find new information. And you are all welcome to ask if there is anything you want to know and I'll help if I can.

Yeah you did. 😊 To do a correct Movin' On truck from the TV series you have to do some kitbashing as no kit has all the parts needed to do it right. The Revell Germany Kenworth W900 VIT is the best starting point to do the TV series trucks as you get the correct cab and interior and the correct 60 inch sleeper, the drivers side battery box and the passenger side tool box are not correct but close, the chassis is fairly right but has wrong suspension and it's not that easy to change as parts of the KW 8 bag AG 100 suspension is molded as part of the frame rails, and some use an AMT chassis slightly stretched to the correct 235 inch wheelbase with the Revell Germany cab, sleeper and the other parts needed. The engine is a Caterpillar 3408 V8 in the Revell Germany kit and has to be changed to a Cummins VT903 V8 (season 1) or NTC350 I6 (season 2), the gear box can be used as it's an Eaton-Fuller and the season 1 trucks had a 13-speed and season 2 a 15-speed deep reduction, most of the brightwork is right except for the wheels wich should be split/lock ring 22 inch wheels for tube tires. You need a short hood from the AMT kit or the Revell snap kit, or cut down the kit hood as it's an extended hood in the Revell Germany kit, the suspension should as I said be a torsion bar suspension for both seasons and if one can't find one from the original AMT issues of the W925 or K123 Auslowe has a good one. One thing is that all the aftermarket and kit decals are not right for the season 2 trucks as the arrow on the sleeper has a different shape, it's symetrical in season 1 and asymetrical in season 2, it's the same paint scheme but Kenworth changed the sleeper arrows from 1974 to 1975. But as I said, it's your model and you do as you please with it, I built the AMT Movin' On kit when I was a teenager in the late 70's and I enjoyed it as it was and it still sits on my shelf but I will build a more correct model of one of the trucks used in the TV series, after all my research on this subject I now know how to do it right.

As I see it you need these parts for the torsion bar suspension and not the walking beam suspension because they are very different. The torsion bar suspension was only in the earliest issues of the AMT Kenworth W925 and K123 kits and is a bit hard to come by nowadays, it was redone and replaced with the walking beam early in the run of the kits as the torsion bar suspension was a bit fiddly to put together and the walking beam suspension is still in the kits today. Auslowe has a better torsion bar kit in resin wich is easier to put together than the original AMT version was and it's recommended, the Movin' On trucks had torsion bars so it's correct for them...but the AMT kit is not really that correct for a Movin' On truck from the TV series. But it's your model and of course you do as you please with it.

Could be so, I have two each of the original issues and one each of the latest reissues of the Tyrone Malone kits and I have not checked my kits for that yet, I know the original issues of them had brittle plastic but I don't know about the latest reissues.

The Revell K100 Aerodyne and flat top has a one piece cab but with separate doors and roof section as the main cab is the same for both kits, and the fender corners with the headlights are separate like on the AMT kit but not parted at the same place, the corners on the AMT kit goes further back and includes the foot step. The Tyrone Malone transporters are the same as the BJ and the Bear kit and the newly reissued K100 tractor, the transporters don't have a fifth wheel or fifth wheel plate...but the rest is in there.

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AS long as I get my copys I'm happy, because that has not allways been the case the last couple of years.

I have seen lower Peterbilt Air Leaf (Low Leaf) suspensions in resin somewhere but I don't remember where right now, if I come up with it I'll come back. For the front, most lowered trucks you see on the highway use a car transporter front axle wich has more drop than regular front axles, I don't remember seeing any of those on the aftermarket tho'.

It's allright, it's your model and you do as you please, it was just a suggestion. As for 1:24th and 1:25th scale the difference is so small that you will not notice it, and many of Auslowes parts are for 1:24th scale but you can almost call them multi-scale, because he doesn't have the same parts in two different scales and they will work on both. So you woun't have any problems using 1:24 scale parts on a 1:25 scale build. When it comes to scales you can see it like this, 1:24th scale is 24 times smaller than the real thing and 1:25th scale is 25 times smaller, and 1 inch in the real world is just over 0.0416 in 1:24th scale and 0.04 in 1:25th scale, not much difference.

Here are links to photos of this build if I remember correctly. https://foto.trucksinscale.com/thumbnails.php?album=161

Of course you can use the Kenworth Air Glide 100 8 bag air ride if you want to but it's not seen on many other trucks than just Kenworth's. I think I would go with a Neway air ride suspension myself or something else like it, it's easy to do one-, two- or tri-drive with that type suspension as you only add on as many as you like. Auslowe used to have the Neway but appearently not at the moment.

I just looked at some of my pictures of Mickey Thompson cars and it looks like you're right, I have never noticed that before. This is for sure doable if you have the gearing right, the tachometer is probably a regula mechanical wire driven piece meant to be driven by the distributor and it's the drive itself that's different. I have never seen one myself until now but you can see it in these pictures I've found on internet so credit goes to the original photographers.

It's most likely where the mold itself parts to get the body out and if it's some play there it can happen.

Most likley when Lesney Corporation who owned Matchbox also owned AMT, 1978-82-83. It seems like Revell bought the tooling in the early 90's.

Interesting. But please fix the rear wheels, they should look like this with the tires outside the raised lip:

I just looked and they all are on the same timeline now...but also the Revell snap kit W900 Aerodyne, they are not "related" to the full detail kits. Yes the 1:25 scale snap truck kits are issued by Revell now, but they are a different tool from the Revell Germany full detail glue kits and were in fact developed by Monogram 1982 and should be afilliated with them, so they should have a red line from the Monogram timeline to be correct. The Revell Peterbilt 359 snap kit is also not related with the Revell Germany 353-359 kits as the snap kits are from Monogram tooling. Likewise with the 1:16 scale Kenworth W900 and Peterbilt 359 kits, they were developed by Monogram and first issued 1981-82, they were later issued under the Revell and Revell-Monogram name, but it's originally Monogram tooling and should share the timeline with them. History on kits can sometimes be difficult as they are often issued under different brands due to buyouts and reboxing of other manufacturers kits, but if you can keep track of the different issues and what tooling they are from it's easier.

No problem. I watched HPIguy's review on the kit and he said it was an old ERTL kit probably based on the ERTL script on some of the sprues but it's definately not, the 1100 series cab versions have been issued under the AMT-ERTL name, but none of the earlier Unilite cab versions was wich hadn't seen daylight from 1973 until Round 2 found the tooling 2013-14...wich in fact appearently was on the Peterbilt 352 tool but blocked off. You really can't give ERTL much credit for these kits as ERTL had nothing to do with it or any other of the old AMT truck kits until 1983 when they bought AMT from Lesney Corporation (Matchbox) who owned AMT from 1978-83. ERTL did some truck kits in the 70's and 80's like the Mack DM 600/DM 800 (originally developed by MPC), the International truck kits and a few more, but had nothing to do with the development of the AMT truck kits as all were done before that.