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It would look way too small.

Me to. I like your attention to details.

It looks like your carburetor is based on the Revell/Monogram carburetor from the Pro Stock kits and I must say that I don't like them that much. I have been around Holley Dominators plenty and they doesn't really look like the Revell/Monogram carbs wich I think are quite crude, there are much better ones around. But...this one will be under an air box so it might not be that visible.

Maybe, if someone wants one bad enough...I wouldn't. The two I have did not cost me nearly as much, I paid something like equivalent to $50-60 each for them not that many years ago.

Totally insane, they are model kits, not gold. $500 is the asking price and no bidders, and they are not worth more than people are prepaired to pay for them.

Diamond P Sports did the production for the NHRA series many years shown through TNN, I have all of their year in review video tapes from 1986-1999 and a few other other drag related videos, NHRA released the year in review tapes again on DVD some years back. I bought the first tapes back in 1989-90 and it was on those videos I first saw John Force and has been a fan of his ever since. Between 2007 and 2011 NHRA did year in review DVD's again and a few other drag related DVD's but they stopped...I also have these. But I don't know if the live coverage of the eliminations started by TNN in the mid 90's did the sport any good, drag racing have the tendency to take time with crashes and oil downs and at least I prefer to see taped races. We had a cable channel available to us in Europe called Screen Sport who showed NHRA races back in the late 80's early 90's, this channel disappeared 1993 and we had nothing for many years until the ESPN America channel came 2009 and I could see more...then that channel disappeared 2013 so now we have nothing again. So NHRA TV is the only way I can follow the series as they don't do any DVD's anymore.

Please can we leave this now. The kit will come out eventually and I for one don't buy kits to sell and make money of them, I buy to build...not that it has been much of that lately.

Nice job on this one.

it looks like I have to get more stuff from you as soon as the Covid 19 stuff is over with, you have a PM.

It's a C6 in the Foose truck, so it's a 3 speed. The Roush built engine is an all aluminum FE sideoiler and there aren't many transmissions available that fits to the FE, the old cast iron Cruise-O-Matic, they made a few aluminum C4's with FE bolt pattern, the aluminum C6 and the FMX was also behind FE's, all 3-speed and the C6 is the strongest of them.

Instructions for most of the Revell Germany Semi Truck Kits downloadable in PDF format. https://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Board&boardID=98&s=7ce8874e250b92399cd24209c20f187f712c8540

Most of the Revell instructions are quite good...nothing like the old AMT instructions wich can be "a bit vague" to say the least. Even the instructions for the Revell rebox of Moebius International Pro Star and Lone Star kits are more clear than Moebius own instructions. Here are a couple of examples. The Peterbilt "Can-Do" Wrecker. https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truckkit_instructions/revell/07541_peterbilt_wrecker/ The "Will-Do" https://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Attachment&attachmentID=308411&h=f41305eece8f22ef8ef20b5f3a222e6d409e9660 The Revell rebox of the Moebis International ProStar. https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truckkit_instructions/revell/7411-2011-internati/ The LoneStar. https://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Attachment&attachmentID=282871&h=0e6f11ff78122235fb34c4a3685f7f892ac35972

Unfortunately Ford didn't think much when they did their engines and transmissions as most Ford engine familys have different bolt patterns (one for the Flathead, one for the Ford Y-block, one for the Lincoln Y-block, two for the 221-351W, 351C and 5.0 small block and early Modular, two for the MEL, one for the FE, one for the 335 family 351M-400 and 385 family 429-460, and one for the Coyote...all different) so Ford had to do different cases for their transmissions to fit their engines, so the C4 had two different patterns and the C6 had three and so on. As most of the later cars from Ford had the 5.0 the C5 and the AOD can be retrofitted on the 1965 or later 289-351W small block, but you can't fit an AOD or any other modern transmission to a FE, 335 or 385 series without an adapter as none of them were made with a case that fits directly. The engineers at GM and Chevrolet was smarter as all Chevy engines has the same bolt pattern, so you can put whatever transmission you want to any of their engines.

Well said. The Revell Peterbilt Wrecker will probably come out sooner or later as the tooling is still there and usable, so it's just a matter of time. I have two of the Can-Do and one of the Will-Do in my pile and I have all the time in the world to wait for another re-issue, if it comes out again I will most likely buy one more.

Cool racecar.

Maybe the chassis from the recent Revell 1967 Corvette Convertible or Coupe or the old MPC chassis from the Streaker Vette, Night Stalker, 67 Sting Ray or any other of their C2 kits wich are more detailed than the AMT kit.

It's pretty much like the Mopar guys did, they used the Superbirds and Daytonas on the larger tracks where they needed aerodynamics and the Charger 500 and Roadrunner on the shorter tracks where aerodynamics wasn't that important.

Monogram also did a 69 Torino Talladega also issued under the Revell name, but it's 1:24th scale and a street car.

It depends on how close to the real thing you want your model to be, the real BJ truck has 24.5 inch tubeless wheels and the AMT White Freightliner wheels are 22 inch lock ring style wheels for tube tires and they look different, the rims for tube tires are flat and the rims for tubeless tires has a dip in the center of the rim wich is there so you can put the tire on the rim as the outside diameter of the rim is larger than the inside diameter of the tire bead. But of course it's up to you what you want to use. Here is a picture to explain what I mean. I myself would go for the 22 inch 10-hole wheels Mo'luminum has on his website as they have the right look, the size on them says 22 inches but as they are tubeless style one piece wheels they have to be 24.5 inches and not 22, or one can go the more expensive way and get real aluminum wheels...but the resin wheels are a lot cheaper as you get 10 wheels for the same price as 2 aluminum wheels costs. I don't know why Jamie has marked his tubeless wheels 20 and 22 inches when the sizes of real tubeless wheels are 22.5 and 24.5 inches, maybe it's to tell that the wheels will fit 20 and 22 inch kit tires.

Very nice.

Instructions, box art and much more valuable information for Semi Trucks. https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/

I don't know if it's confirmed or not, I have seen the information regarding a reissue here and on the MTDG facebook group...so it can be wishful thinking for all I know.

It came out very nice., great work.

Looking good.

The original post is from 2013, so they have most likely disappeared since then.