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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.

It's a bit more, they went from 20" to 22.5" and from 22" to 24.5" when they migrated from tube tires to tubeless tires, so the difference between tube rims and tubeless rims is 2.5"...but I don't know the reason to why they decided on just those numbers.

I'll do my best to help where I can. As I have been a fan of drag racing almost all my life I have bought most of the drag related kits that has came out since I started building car kits back in the 70's, so I have picked up things here and there over the years. One thing that could have something to do with the lack of more Ford Pro Stock kits was that Bob Glidden who raced Thunderbirds from 1983 to 1988 changed to a Ford Probe for 1989 to the end of his Ford era and he was one of the few still racing Fords, and Revell/Monogram didn't do a kit of that one.

Ford 260-289-302 small block engines is not that hard to find, the AMT 67 Mustang has a nice one that will work and there are more.

Very good information Eric, thanks for your work. It's a very good engine...but...the LS is one of the ugliest engines made and that's why most of them is covered up with plastic panels. Why couldn't GM do a good engine that looks good as well...because if it's good the Hot Rodders will be all over it...but it's hard to do a nice piece of the LS, like Chip Foose say, the engine is "the jewel in the box", so it has to look nice and you don't want to cover it up.

You're welcome. There is lots of automotive knowledge on this board, just ask and you will most likelu get the answer you are looking for.

Funny...the pictures I helped Chris with was pictures of Paul Cox's truck, I found some very good and detailed pictures of the dash panel under restoration of the truck. I had saved them in case I would do a correct Aerodyne dash myself.

It's a long time since the Revell Germany Beall tanker was reissued last, 2005 if I remeber correctly wich is 10 years after the initial release and it has only been reissued once as far as I know. So it can be a bit hard to find for a decent price.

For information, the engine in the Revell K100 is a twin turbo NTC 475, not a 400 wich only has one turbo, so if you leave out one of the turbos you will have a 400...the aftercooler is not the right style but can be modified quite easily. I have helped Chris with some references for the dash, some views he didn't have, so it's a World wide operation. I also want to see a correct Aerodyne dash as none of the K100 Aerodyne kits has one, all are wrong.

The AMT Freightliner wheels are 22 inch split rims with a lock ring for tube tires so they wouldn't be right as the inside of the rim is flat all the way from the inside and out, wheels for 22.5 and 24.5 inch tubeless tires has a depression in the middle of the rim and no lock ring, so the Freightliner wheels wouldn't look right if you are picky. I think I would go for 22.5 inch wheels in 1:24th scale wich should be close to 24.5 inch in 1:25th scale. it's not easy to find wheels with the right look and decent scale size as most of the wheels in kits are not that good and haven't got the right look, so aftermarket is most likely the only way to go. I would like to see correct good looking 22 inch split rim front wheels for my Movin' On and Smokey and the Bandit truck projects still in the planning stage waiting for the right parts, nothing is available in resin and none of the kit wheel has the right look. I might have to contact Doug Wagner at Keystone and hear if he would like to do a set or two for me, he has good looking machined aluminum 5 hole split rims in a couple of sizes but no 10 hole other than tubeless tire style.

It pretty much sums it up. I have most of these kits bought when they were new and have followed the changes for the different versions over the years. The first versions wasn't that bad but the latest versions has some issues with fitment and stance, and as you say the latest Reher & Morrison and Frank Iaconio versions are a mishmash of all previous versions and not at all like the originals from 1984. The Monogram Thunderbird Pro Stock kits initially issued 1984 didn't have the same evolution as the Camaro/Firebird Pro Stock kits. There were only two basic versions of them, the 1984 version of Bob Glidden's and Rickie Smith's cars and it was reissued 1986 as Frank Iaconio's car and a Pro Street version called "Red Hot". This tooling was later changed to a later Bob Glidden car with a 1987 body and Motorcraft sponsor in 1988, but basically the same chassis and drive train, this kit was reissued again under the Revell name in 2013, to my knowledge unchanged. There is a Pro Street version of a late 80's Thunderbird in 1990, the Matt and Debbie Hayes car, but that tooling has no relation to the Pro Stock kits.

Here is a couple of pictures of the Ford FE dry sump system used in the GT40 Mk II and Mk IV, it's different from the Boss 429 setup as the pump is driven internally inside the special aluminum front cover, the rest of the oil pan is magnesium. This is the GT40 Mk II but the later Mk IIB had the oil reservoir at the rear of the car instead of at the front, the scavenge pump in this picture is wrong as that's where the oil filter normally goes, the in and outlets from the pump can be seen at the bottom of the front cover in the pictures above.

302 cui is close to 5.0 litres (4.9489 to be fairly exact) so yes it's the 5.0 from 1982-2001 and it belongs to the Windsor 90 degree V8 family wich also includes the 221-260-289 and 302 and the older engines are very similar with some small differences to the later 5.0 versions. The 351 Windsor is also from the same family but as Dave said it's slightly taller and wider and the only things interchangeable with the smaller displacement engines are the heads, camshaft (different firing order tho') and some other things like oil pump, fuel pump and so forth, the crank can't be used in the smaller versions as the main bearings are wider in the 351. The 351 has the same 4.00" bore as the 289 and 302 and the crank has 3.50" stroke, the 289 has 2.87" and the 302 has 3.00" even so if you could put a 351 crank in a 302 you would get a 347 cui engine, but it doesn't work as I said so the 347 stroker kits available for the 302 takes care of that in other ways with a .040" overbore and a 3.40" crank. For did a couple more 5 litre engines, the Boss 302 from 1969-70 wich is a Windsor 302 with Cleveland style heads and the 5.0 Coyote based on the 2-3 and 4 valve Modular engines from 1991-forward and the new Boss 302 wich also is a Coyote.

I really like this.

Pegasus Hobbies is located in Montclair, California, I have been to the Moreno St shop lots of times and I think they do mail orders too. Their website is not that good but they usually have lots of kits and accessories.

I'm also a subscriber and as I understand it from the emails I've got from them (wich is a couple a week) the delay is mostly because of the Covid19 and all shutdowns.

Ouch!!

Just for information, GT500KR is 1968 only and the KR was to designate the 428 Cobra Jet engine and stood for King of the Road...so putting these stripes on a 1967 is not right.

Most likley as I have the same pictures, I found them the same way some time ago...but I don't remeber where.