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I don't know what's with the German designers, they seem to have to exaggerate design features like the grilles, just because the kidney shaped grilles are significant for BMW they doesn't have to be this large, Audi has done the same lately with their grilles wich has been larger and larger over the years. I don't mean that I don't like the kidney grille on BMW's, they have allways had them but I think this one on the 850 is one of their better designs for the grille, it's subtle but you immediately see what brand it is without it beeing exaggerated.

Keith Marks has a decal set for the AMT Edsel with the correct looking E400 markings. https://public.fotki.com/mofobow/ford/edsel-1/58_edsel/

The radiator wall is not the same in the Mustang and Fairlane but you could probably use it and make it work.

May I have another input there. The radiator from the Thunderbolt is not correct as the Thunderbolts used a cross flow big block radiator from a Galaxie to cool the 427 FE High Riser engine, the small block Fairlanes used the same radiator as the small block Mustangs.

The chassis from the Thunderbolt is perfect for this as the 1962-65 Fairlanes and the 1962-63 Meteor shares the basic platform and is the only Ford/Mercury cars who do so, so they are closely related. Many may think the Falcon/Mustang platform works but it's kind of close but it's definately not the same as the Fairlane/Meteor platform is slightly larger and differs in several places...I used to own a 1964 Fairlane and guess how I know this. I will for sure follow this build. One thing if you are going to do a street car, the leafs and brackets are right but take off the traction bars as they are racing only and maybe change the rear end to an 8 inch as I belive it was standard on the Meteor and Fairlane, I don't know if the 9 inch was on the option list even for the 289 HP 4-speed cars.

Me too.

Yes, I would like to see one of the model companies do a Featherlite Race Transporter Trailer, there are other manufacturers with similar trailers too, but Featherlite is the most popular transporter trailer among racing teams out there as they are used by NASCAR teams, NHRA and other Drag Racing teams, Indycar teams, Sprint Car teams and many others. AMT did an attempt to do racing transporter trailers back in the very early 90's but that was their old Trailmobile moving van, wich first saw daylight back in 1972, with an interior and some racing equipment and is not anywhere near what they use today...and even back when they did it. Italeri did racing transporter combinations but it's an European style with a single drive truck and a short box trailer and nothing like the 53 foot long dual drive conventional truck US syle transporters wich are a lot cooler looking. I believe a modern US style race transporter trailer would sell good as teams in all kinds of racing divisions use them so there are many options for model builders to do. Maybe Moebius is up for the challenge to do one as it would go well with their International trucks.

Very nice. But I'm puzzled, air condition in a Stock category racing car... I don't think that is required by the rules as it's not standard equipment.

Yeah, especially if the rear axles has posi differentials.

Very nice.

Or maybe Moroso, they looks to be stamped steel anyway.

I'm surprised that there aren't more of the recent Mustang, Camaro and Challenger "muscle cars" on the market, they are popular so I think the demand is there and I would for sure buy them if there were any available. I really like the Factory Stock and Factory Super Stock drag racing versions and I would like to be able to build them, likewise with some of the road racing cars, the only available one is the Mustang GT4 from Tamiya, but that's a curbside with no engine and I don't like that, but if it was a full detail kit with a detailed engine bay I would have bought it allready.

Yeah I do, it's about five miles long and around 200 feet wide.

Yes you can transport a complete Cat 390, but there are some limitations you have to take in consideration, like weight, hight and width, how far you have to transport it, and if there are any bridges, overpasses or tunnels on the route. Where I live you can have a gross weight of 64 metric tons on most of the road network and you need a special permit as a broken down Cat 390 is still too heavy and too wide. The complete machine weighs 86-90 metric tons depending on version, around 200000 lbs, so they usually take off the counterweight, the stick and the bucket, so what they transport is the basic machine with the boom only and it's still too heavy, the taken off parts are transported on another trailer or maybe two. When transported the machine straddles the trailer and is blocked up as the track width at 4.41 meters, 14.5 ft, is too wide for most trailers, so the tracks are hanging free outside of the trailer bed just over the ground, the machine is quite high at 4.89 meters, 16.08 ft, to the top of cab and that's another reason for getting it as low as possible when transported so you can clear overpasses and tunnels. On the 5 mile road construction project where I work right now we have two Cat 374F's, one Cat 352F, three Cat 336F's (one is a long reach) and some smaller Volvo excavators like one EC 290, two EC 250's, one EC 220, one EW 170 and one EW 160, one Cat D8 dozer, seven wheel loaders, one Cat 988, one Cat 980, one Volvo L90, two L70's and two L60's, eight Volvo Dumpers, three A40's two A30's and three A25's, one Cat 140M grader and two Cat Compactors, one CS68B and one CS66B. We have downsized some since last winter so some machines are sent away as there were more earler, but the ones I mentioned above is what we have right now. So I have seen my fare share of machine transports lately.

Where I live you can have a gross weight of 64 metric tons on the roads so you need a special permit as a broken down Cat 390 is still too heavy and too wide. The complete machine weighs 86-90 metric tons tons depending on version, around 200000 lbs, so they usually take off the counterweight, the stick and the bucket, so what they transport is the basic machine with the boom only and the taken off parts on another trailer or maybe two. When transported the machine straddles the trailer and is blocked up as the track width is too wide for most trailers at 4.41 meters, 14.5 ft, so the tracks are hanging free outside of the trailer bed just over the ground, the machine is quite high at 4.89 meters, 16.08 ft, to the top of cab and that's another reason for getting it as low as possible when transported so you can clear overpasses and tunnels.

Kenworth stopped with white engines after 1975 and Peterbilt after 1984, after that engine manufacturer colors with a few exceptions as there were some white engines after and some manufacturer colored engines before.

Interesting, this I'm gonna follow. Nice work so far.

Nice work indeed. You know the dash board in the K100 Aerodyne kit is wrong don't you? The kits has a regular K100 dash board but when the Aerodyne COE cab came Kenworth did a different dash board from the regular K100 wich AMT and Revell Germany didn't do in their kits as all have the regular K100 dash board, and as far as I know a correct dash board for the Aerodyne COE is not available from anyone on the aftermarket either, so if you want to do it correct you have to do some scratchbuilding. Here is a topic on the matter.

Looks good. I see you mention that Revell might have got lazy and used the front axle from the W900/T900 kit in the K100 but that can't be the case as the Revell Germany W900/T900 and K100/K100 Aerodyne kits are not based on the same tooling and developed several years appart. The K100 kits initial release was back in 1982 and the W900 first came 10 years later in 1992 and these kits share nothing between them except for a few part like the tires, the front axles are different in these kits as the K100 axle is steerable but the W900 axle isn't and even the rear suspension wich are of the same type (AG 100) are also done different in the kits like most of the other things. The Revell Germany T600 kits from 1990-91 shares some parts with the K100 kit but the W900/T900 doesn't.

I feel we have to put some things straight regarding the intake manifolds. The Hemi "Rat Roaster" is a two piece bolt together aluminum short ram intake manifold made and sold by Edelbrock and was available in a couple of versions, RR-1 inline dual 4-bbl's, RR-2 cross ram dual 4-bbl's and RR-3 single 4-bbl and the "Rat Roaster" was mostly used in drag racing wich it was designed for: This intake manifold fits easily between the heads and valve covers. The intake manifold used on NASCAR Hemi's is also a two piece bolt together design known as "Tub" or more commonly as "Bath Tub" and is not the same as the "Rat Roaster", this intake was a single carb intake manifold used in circle track and NASCAR competition and not in drag racing, it was made of magnesium and aluminum and this intake manifold is much wider than the "Rat Roaster" as the top goes out towards the valve covers, the lid has a depression where the carburetor sits and this intake was avaliable in a couple of versions, one for the 4150 series Holley and the other for the 4500 series Holley Dominator and nothing else. Both the "Rat Roaster" and "Bath Tub" intake manifolds were designed and developed by the Chrysler Race Group and was for racing only.

I once read on a rear axle in one of these, "god protects the stupid".

It looks good to me.

Yes the G A L A X I E letters are also missing from the kit body, on the latest re-issue they are on the decal sheet together with all the emblems and scripts tho'. The classic American car interest are huge over here, partly because most of them were sold new over here back in the time and many want one now so the demand is high, my Galaxie was imported from California back in 2016 and I had a 1964 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe before also imported from California back in 2004, and I sold it when I bought the Galaxie.

Nice. I own a real one and it's also a 500XL and there are lots of shiny stuff everywhere. It's unfortunate that the model kit is wrong in many places, for example the interior is from a Convertible, the chrome stars in the tail lights are wrong as they should be four pointed and a backup light in the center, the tail light bezels are way too beefy, and some other stuff

Yeah I know, that's why I posted them.