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Very nice!!

Very nice...When can I get one??

Here you can read about the so called "improvements" in the Pro Stock category over the last 50 years...if it's good or not...that I leave for the observer to decide. https://www.nhra.com/news/2020/50-years-pro-stock-salute-you-ve-come-long-way-pro-stock

Nice builds.

Thanks for the pictures, I wish I had been there. About Pro Stock, I have allways liked the Pro Stock category but the sanctioning bodies have let the class going too far and has deviated too much from what it originally was, in the beginning (1970) the Pro Stock cars were just like Super Stock cars with slightly looser rules, but they still looked like the cars they were supposed to be and was still based on road going cars with engines based on what you could get in your car from the factory. With the rules like they are today where the bodies of the race cars (mostly Camaro's) doesn't have much resemblence to the street going counterpart and all use one type of engine, the GM DRCE, wich is an aftermarket engine developed purely for drag racing and not available in any car and have never been...how fun is that...both the spectators and car manufacturers has lost interest and the class is slowly dying as the competitors are leaving because it's too expensive, look back 20-25 years where there were maybe 30-35 cars trying to get in the 16 car field, now they barely get 16 cars total for each event. I don't understand how taking away the hood scoops (I think race cars look cool with hood scoops) and introducing the electronic fuel injection they use today, and the fact that NHRA has shortened the Pro Stock Calender from 24 events to 18 would make the class more interesting...I'm not against evolution but it doesn't do it for me anyway as all the fun is taken out of it. So it's maybe time to re-write the rulebooks, go back to square one and do an all new Pro Stock class with car bodies that looks a lot more like the street going counterparts from GM, Mopar and Ford, abandon the 500 cui rule wich was implemented 1982 and do a new engine rule based on the modern V8 engines used in the street cars with a displacement limit of maybe 358 cui or something like that, that will maybe get the interest back for the class from both the spectators and manufacturers. Just look at the Factory Stock and Factory Super Stock classes wich has gained lots of interest the last few years and the car manufacturers are all over it...get the hint!!

Good work on your model Richard. But this kit is a 1949 and not a 1950. There are lots of small differences between them and one giveaway is the dash panel, on the 49 all gauges are round and the 50 has one large half round speedometer and the other gaugs are squared (the same dash was also in the 51) the rear glass was separated into three pieces on the 49 and was a one piece in 1950 The side trim is slightly different between the two years, the hood has MERCURY spelled out with separate letters on the 49 and a badge and a trim piece with MERCURY stamped in on the 50, the trunk badges are different, the door handles are different. Here are some pictures to show the most significant differences. 1949 front 1950 front 1949 rear 1950 rear 1949 dash 1950 dash The 1950 in these pictures is a Monterey so it has a vinyl roof and Monterey badges on the doors, these are not on the regular coupe's.

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I have some bad news for you, if you use the roll bar as it is on the Jo-Han 71 'Cuda you woun't be able to use the side windows as the main hoop will interfere as it's slightly wider on top than the roof...ask me how I know that. So if you want to use the side windows on you model you have to shorten the upper bar some and angle the uprights slightly inward...then it will fit allright. I noticed this when I was to put the interior in the body with all glass installed so it was a bit too late to fix it, the interior was finished with the seats and I also had added a 4 point racing harness wich is wrapped around the bar behind the drivers seat, so I had to skip the side windows as it was too much work to fix the problem...but I for sure will on my next build. Otherwise, you're doing a good job and I can't wait to see the result.

Yes indeed, they look great.

If you can't find the Prudhomme Hot Wheels car and you don't need the Hot Wheels decals this is essentially the same kit. And this one too.

I just saw the video myself a few minutes ago, unfortunately the rear wing side plates reads "Tyrone Malone AMT Hobby Kits" but it should be "Bandag Bandit AMT Hobby Kits" so it's close but no cigar. I also noticed "Driver Martin Carver" temporary decals for the doors on the decal sheet, it's from when the then CEO for Bandag Martin Carver set the record back in August 1988. You can't really do the Martin Carver record setting version with what's in the kit if you want it to be correct because the hood is different on that version with some large bulges down the sides behind the fenders wich are not on the kit hood, and the stripes down the hood sides are much shorter. It's unfortunate that Paccar and Kenworth stopped Round 2 using the correct markings for these trucks, because Bandag/Bridgestone or Detroit Diesel-Allison didn't mind and would let them use the names, from what I saw in the youtube video the decals would have been awsome if everything was on there as it should have been...but no...it was like "leave the Bandag, Detroit Diesel and Allison out or you can't get the license to do these Kenworth truck kits"...very bad...it would have been easier to leave out the Kenworth markings. It's not like these things are small and insignificant and they can't easily be found in other kits, Bandag, Detroit Diesel and Allison together with Kenworth are the reason Malone could do what he did for so many years. So to complete the markings on both these trucks we have to rely on Jerry at Modeltruckin', I don't know how well his decals will go with the new kit decals colorwise but we'll see. I noticed another thing when I went through my references recently, I wasn't sure what rear suspension the Hideout Truck had, torsion bars or air ride, as I have never seen any pictures of the underside of this truck, but as it turns out there is a text between the rear wheel arches on the original paint job I hadn't noticed before that reads "Kenworth Airglide 100 Suspension"...so the model kit is correct there so except for the front bumper and wheels, everything else is right for the Hideout Truck. Another thing I have noticed with the Bandag Bandit and Super Boss truck kits is the missing shift lever for the auxillary transmission, this shifter should be near the back wall of the interior between the seats, AMT only provided the shifter for the Allison automatic transmission but nothing for the Fuller auxillary transmission.

The front wheels in the kit isn't the right style and kind of crude, they used reversed Halibrand spindle mount kidney bean magnesium wheels on the Winged Express. I'm pretty sure the gold front wheels were coated with DOW 7 wich was popular chemical treatment on magnesium wheels at the time to keep them from oxidise wich magnesium does as you look at it, the DOW 7 gives the magnesium a brass-goldish sheen but wasn't that durable.

Very nice.

You can paint the engine silver if you want to, I think the engine is supposed to be a 8V-92 and the 92 series was called Silver 92 and was painted silver. But I have seen them in Alpine Green too.

They are in lots of Mopar kits with Hemi's and pickups. But BNL Resins has one and so do Competition Resins, Speed City Resin, VCG Resin and certainly several more resin casters.

Yes, that's why I thought it was funny how it was put down in the arcle. James is allright in my book as it's better to have cars built for him than burning his money up on other stuff...but it looks like he tried to do that too.

I don't like the snap wheels at all including the tires, the fronts looks weird and the rear wheels are too shallow to look right.

I don't like the Global Shipping Program ebay uses, the shipping fees are horrendous sometimes and a lot more expensive than regular international shipping. If I'm interested in a thing for lets say 5 Dollars the shipping with the Global Shipping Program can cost 50-55 Dollars so the total can be 60 Dollars for a 5 Dollar item...totally outrageous and not worth it. And sometimes they charge 25-30 Dollars shipping for an item you can send in a letter for a few bucks...crazy.

It's a bit funny...I read in the article that he built 11 custom cars in 14 years...well I don't think James built any of them himself, he had them built for him. Never the less the man likes cars wich is allright by me, and they are all nice. I have seen two of his cars live. The Voodoo Priest 1937 Lincoln Zephyr I have seen twice, it was the first car I laid my eyes on when I came through the gates at the Goodguys Southwest Nationals in Scottsdale AZ back in November 2012 and this car was also on display at Sacramento Vintage Ford in Sacramento CA when we were there back in April 2016. The Black Pearl 1948 Jaguar I saw at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas NV back in November 2014 where it was displayed together with another music artists car, the Wiskey Runner 1934 Ford owned by Billy F Gibbons (ZZ-Top). I have also seen the Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett's all black 36 Ford Coupe live when I was at the California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Raceway CA back in October 2009.

I totally agree...if we don't tell them what we want we will never get it.

I'm interested in good detailed model kits of many old classic cars and yes the Coronet is one of them, but I don't necessarily want the old less detailed kits made in the early 60's, I like to have new better detailed kits made with todays technology....but that will most likely not happen any day soon.

Before you go too far, I know it's shown that way in the instructions but check the fitment of the rear wheels, because I think you have to reposition the brake chambers to make the wheels fit properly, I don't think there is enough room between the frame rails and wheels for the brake chambers to be where you have them now.

Well most of the truck model kits we have available to us are old.

I saw a Ford Prefect Fuel Altered in the Jackson Brothers Gasser Files video now when I think about it. It was Steve Woods car with a Nitro burning blown 392 Hemi.

I used to have a 64 Fairlane with a 8 inch and now I have a 63½ Galaxie with a 9 inch and I feel the difference in weight of the axles in the car when you drive over bumps like a train track or something like that. Finding rear axles nowadays is not a problem as the most popular ones are plentiful on the aftermarket, so you don't need to rob one from a junk car anymore, and of course if you are doing a car for performance you want a strong axle so at least that will hold up even if everything else is blown to smithereens.