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Nice model Ken.

Very nice.

Before I bought my AITM Rubber Duck resin kit I asked Dave if I only could get the parts I needed to convert the AMT R600 and he said he could do that...but I thought about it for a while and changed my mind and decided to get the complete kit instead. So he is good to deal with.

We have quite liberal regulations for old classic cars in Sweden, if they are over 30 years old we don't have to pay any tax on them and they only have to go through our traffic safety inspection once every 24 months, if the cars are 50 years and older they don't have to be inspected anymore if the most recent safety inspection was done within 24 months or after and most insurance companies has good policys for them. So these cars are cheap to own...but we don't use them as daily drivers and not many use them in the winter so they don't run many miles per year. But we might have to go back on topic now.

I have been around some Ford FE engines in my day and I have two right now...allthough they are 390's, one is in my 1963½ Galaxie 500XL and the other one I'm building a 445 stroker out of. Yes I'm interested as there aren't any egnines for the Mk II's available.

Nice models. Calypso Coral is the same color as the older Poppy Red, and it really pops.

I get the messages too, but I stopped using Photobucket when they started to ask horrendous money for their service about 3 years ago and went over to a paid Fotki account, Fotki was much cheaper at the time and easier to use and I have never looked back.

Looks great. I can't see much wrong with it as you seem to have nailed it down to the dry sump oil system. Are you ging to make this available??

Well you see most of them at car meets in the summer time...otherwise you don't see many on the roads as daily drivers. So most of them are enthusiasts hobby vehicles.

Plenty...there are over 20 in the garage where I keep my 1963½ Galaxie. The thing is that American cars has been imported and sold by dealers over here for a long time.

If it's turbo charged you don't need a muffler as turbo charged engines doesn't make much sound. I prefer an unsilenced American V8 any day, it's sweet music to my ears.

Ilmor Engineering does the spec NT1 engine for the truck series. As far as I know Roush-Yates is the only producer of Ford FR-9 engines for both Cup and Xfinity series, there are two engine programs with Hendricks and Childress for the Chevy R07 engines and TRD does the Toyota engines for both series, so they are still different manufacturers but they are very close to be spec engines by todays rules. As I said in my earlier post, I don't believe going even further away from stock is the solution to get the interest back for the sport, if they go back more to the roots they may regain interest again...and if one or two manufacturers jump ship the series will for sure diminish even more and maybe die completely. Except for the chassis development for the Gen 7 I have even heard of thoughts about going to turbo charged V6 engines in Cup and there has even been talk about hybrid...yes it's "broken" but I'm not sure that's the fix and these things will definately not be any cheaper as costs is a big factor, it's very few Cup races with full 40 car fields nowadays. Most racing series has their golden days but will sooner or later get out of hand as the rules change and lightens up, and if it gets too far the public loose interest and the series diminish.

Interesting project, this I will follow

It's most likely an oversight, I can't imagine they would invest money to cut both 1:24th scale and 1:25th scale tooling for kits of the same subject, one scale fraction is not much so they are too close for it to be meaningful. If the tooling is from different manufacturers originally it's another thing...but in this case I don't believe it is.

I allready have four, one built many years ago and three still in the box...unfortunately none with air ride.

As far as I know the different original versions of the LNT 8000 are T-504 Tractor, T-503 Dump Truck and T-635 Dump Truck/Snow Plow, and LN 8000 T-515 Short Hauler Box Truck and T-505 Race Transporter, all from 1971 except for the snow plow from 1972.

I have the Stevens International issue of this kit from 2008 with close to the same boxart, Kit #38687.

Here is my only wrecker built years ago.

I follow several racing series and I don't think going further away from what the cars are supposed to be is the solution to the problem with the diminishing interest for the sport, they have to take a step or two back to the origins, the public has to recognize the cars and they should be more like the ones you can buy from the showroom floor. Of course you can't go back on safety, that's crucial, but leave the exotic materials out of it as much as possible to keep the costs down...and for gods sake, don't even think of going the hybrid way if you want to cut the costs for the teams, it's expensive enough as it is without that. You only have to look at F1, the hybrid power units they use now are so expensive to develop and manitain that there are only 4 manufacturers who supplies the power units for all 20 cars from the 10 teams in F1 (Mercedes 6 cars, Ferrari 6, Honda 4 and Renault 4), and even tho' there has been interests from other manufacturers it's too expensive to develop a competitive power unit and get something back out of it, so there will most likely be no more than the 4 that's in right now as long as the regulations are as they are. The engines they have now in NASCAR is not on the option list for any street going car, they are specially developed for NASCAR racing and shares nothing with the production engines except that they are V8's, that's maybe where you could cut costs, go back to base the racing engines in NASCAR on regular production engines instead of the special engines they use today, I don't know why they allowed these special engines in the first place, the old rule was that the engines used in NASCAR racing had to be production engines available to the public in regular cars. The bodies they have in NASCAR today looks quite like the street going counterparts...but...they are both wider and longer that the street car, just take a look on the Pace Car if it's a Camry, Camaro or Mustang and you see what I mean...at least the Camry looks very tiny compared with the NASCAR racing version. And please...don't go to 18 inch wheels with center nuts, if they do that they could allow air jacks as well and allow 4 guys over the wall with an air gun each and a pressurized fueling rig so a pit stop takes 3 seconds...boring...the pit stops is interesting as it is with 5 lugnuts per wheel and I like the look of the 15 inch wheels...and they have worked so far so why shouldn't they do that in the future. NASCAR isn't the only sanctioning body with diminishing interest, NHRA have the same problem with the Pro Stock class, both from competitors and public, boring cokie cutter cars that doesn't look like the street car they are supposed to be and mostly all with the same engines (not production engines)...on the other hand the Factory Stock and Factory Super Stock classes are growing rapidly and has gained lots of interest...I wonder why.

I believe all the AMT 1963 Galaxie kits are based on the same tooling, the bodies and glass are different, the 63½ fastback kit still has the convertible interior tub wich is wrong for the hard tops. The tail lights are not that accurate in the AMT kits as one can see, even the bezels are way too beefy, they are much slimmer on the real cars...I know, I have one. I wish someone would do better more accurate 63½ and 64 Galaxie kits as the ones we have now has lots to desire. Round2 could easily do them based on their excellent 1960 Starliner tooling, keep the chassis, engine and suspension and do new bodies, chrome and interiors and you would have great kits.

I think the truck you built is the regular T600A kit as the side skirts are different on the Canepa version...but it looks nice anyway. ? I built the Canepa version for my Castrol GTX Top Fuel Team transporter years ago and had no major issues with it...are these good accurate kits...naah, not really...but they are for sure buildable and looks decent on the shelf. Here is a couple of pictures of the two different versions of the AMT T600A kit so you see the difference. The regular T600A And the Canepa Version, the wheel covers are in both kits but the front bumper and side skirts are different on the Canepa version.

Very nice.

Cool, I like the old AA/FA's

Nice job on that Ferrari.

Very nice, the 1961 Buick Invicta is on my favourite cars list.