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Sooo nice, great work man.

The dash looks really good so far Geoffrey. For the diamond tuft interior, Auslowe has soft flexible diamond tuft interior material that should work for you. https://www.auslowe.com.au/shop/flexible-kenworth-interior-diamond-pattern-/M37

Very nice and I can't wait to see the result when finished.

No there is no KW logo on there on the AMT kits.

"Hold on to Fred. Here comes the cavalry" One of my favourite trucks and movie too...I usually watch the movie at least once a year and have done so ever since i got it on Video and later on DVD.

Nice work on the Mega Ford so far. Well if you are picky the Boss 429 IS a 385 series engine but with Hemi heads, otherwise it's basically the same as the 429 Cobra Jet and Super Cobra Jet with four bolt main caps and screwed in core plugs.

Very nice as allways KJ, you captured the look perfectly.

GM built only five of these (but 125 were planned) so they are very rare and the 377 cui all aluminum engine with 58 mm Webers putting out around 550 hp are impressive. Nice work Ray. I have two of these kits in my stash and will for sure take them on one of these days.

Outstanding work Tim, I'm impressed.

Maybe I should have explained the terms myself when I did the post but no need now as Mark and Steve are correct. So it's not steering on the rear axle if that's what you thought. But some has most likely had the thought to have some kind of self steering at the rear to make the cars turn left easier, but I believe it's prohibited by the rules.

It came out very nice. I have always thought there was something wrong with the the AMT W925 appearence when finished and now I know what it is, it looks much better with the lowered hood and cab. Do you have an idea on how much you lowered them Doug?

A Pro Mod chassis has to meet SFI 25.1H specs and you might find something in this topic.

Well all of the AMT truck kits are old as they were originally issued between 1969 and 1982-83 with the main part of the truck kit releases in the early to mid 1970's, the first issue of this particular model kit came in 1972 as kit # T-817...so it for sure has it's flaws and issues.

Very nice executed model, I like these AMC "theme" cars.

Like Casey says, look for these symbols in later stages of the assembly instructions and it's quite clear as the radiator hoses and heater hoses has the same symbols. I don't know why Round 2 saw the need to change the instructions because on the instructions from the original issue there were numbers for the parts meant to attach there instead of the symbols...maybe a little easier. Picture from Drastic Plastic Model Car Club Fotki albums.

Yes, you need a bit more overhang of the dump body.

I think I have read somewhere that the 80's GM chassis had front steer and the Ford chassis had rear steer.

Yes the Freightliner FLC was first of the US truck kits from Italeri in 1986 followed by the Western Star 1989, the Superliner 1991, the Ford LTL 9000 1993 and the Aeromax 120 1994, the Freightliner FLD 1995, and it's not a big surprise the following kits after the Freightliner was based on that tool if you know how Italeri works with the shortcuts they usually takes with their kits. The Peterbilt 377 A/E came 1996 and the 378 1997, these are not based on the Freightliner tool as they got a Peterbilt chassis and a Detroit Diesel Series 60 engine.

Well I don't know if you can call the Italeri chassis "genenric", it's a Freightliner chassis with the FAS Airliner (Western Unit Stabilaire) rear suspension from the Freighliner FLC kit, the FLD kit uses the same chassis with updated FAS Airliner II suspension added but the older FAS Airliner is also in there. Most of the other makes (except for the Volvo VN) use the unaltered FLC chassis wich is quite wrong for them, all of them has the Cummins NTC and some got a few insignificant updates to the induction system to more look like N14's with air to air intercooler instead of water to air aftercooler, but the main part of the engine is still the same NTC. The other chassis Italeri used for US truck kits is for their Peterbilt 378 and 377 A/E with Air Leaf suspension and it's right for them and was not used for any of the other US truck kits.

You have to take in consideration that the main part of the AMT truck kits was first issued in the late 60's to mid 70's and the Italeri US truck kits are from the mid 80's and 90's so they are a couple of decades appart. The thing that bothers me most with the Italeri kits is the lack of accuracy and all the shortcuts taken during the development of the kits, the cabs looks good but the chassis, engine and drive trains are not allways correct as they basically did only two engine types and two chassis for all their US truck kits (Except for the Volvo VN), one chassis and a Detroit Diesel Series 60 engine for the Peterbilt kits wich is allright, and one chassis and Cummins NTC engine for all others wich originally came in the Freightliner kits wich it is right for, but not correct for any of the other makes.

Jenkins used Cragar Super Trick on this car as Cragar was one of his sponsors, and the ones Scott has are very nice. Many often call this type of wheel the wrong name most likely because they are so similar in design, but the Cragar Super Trick and the Centerline Auto Drag wheels are different when you compare them. The Centerline Auto Drag wheels are riveted together and the Cragar Super Trick wheels are bolted together and there are several more rivets on the Centerlines than there are bolts on the Cragars, the shape of the center are also slightly different between the two, so if you know what to look for you can tell wich wheel make it is.

Yes the hoods are the same on both years in the real World, the model kit hoods may not be interchangeable but they can be made to fit.

It came out very nice, good job.

This is the first place to go to for this, https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/ Here are the instructions you need. https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/monogram-instructions/automotive-cars--pi/1-sort/monogram-20th-anniv/

You're welcome, unfortunately it's the only pic I have for the inside of that car and it's definately not the best, but one can see some stuff anyway.