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If the engine is mounted low this is a much better choice than a deep sump pan as it's not much deeper than a stock pan. I'm using one of these for my 390/445 stroker I'm putting together for my 63½ Galaxie right now, the car is so low that I don't dare using a deeper pan but with this I get the additional oil volume anyway as it holds 8 quarts. They are not that hard to scratch build.

Yep...you can't argue with that.

Except for the headlights I also have a hard time coming to terms with the look of the front fenders...they are a bit oversized and bulky for my taste and sits too high.

Yes it's a nice model...but haven't anyone noticed that this topic is over 12 years old and the guy haven't been on here since July 2015.

Looks perfect KJ, I like your work a lot.

Maybe it would look better if the lights were mounted lower.

Looks good. But I see one thing that bothers me...the fuel, speedometer and temp gauge faces are silver on a 1964 Fairlane and also the Thunderbolt, not black. I had a 64 Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe for 12 years but sold it 3 years ago when I bought the 1963½ Galaxie 500 XL I have now.

The CTM lights are very nice and they have them both in red and orange and a couple of styles, I have bought a couple of sets for future builds but haven't used them yet but I intend to on the right build. But it do add up if you want to do something like the truck above (we call them "cristmas trees" over here), I counted the ones I see on the side to 38 just on the tractor alone and I have for sure missed a couple, so that's at least 76-78 lights for both sides, 11-12 under the bumper, and god knows how many there are on the back wall of the sleeper as it looks to be more than a few if you look at the reflection on the front of the trailer, and then you have all the lights on the trailer on top of that. Lets say you need around 100 lights total (a nice round figure) to do a similar tractor-trailer combination, that's 65 bucks just on lights, 50 lights is half of that, you can of course use less lights but you don't get the "christmas tree" feeling if you use too few. The combination in your picture above certainly have a lot more than 100 lights and is as you say a bit overkill...but not that uncommon. So that's probably one reason, I think another reason is what style the build is as it decides what lights you use and how many, because old trucks from the late 60's and 70's as most of the kits we have now are doesn't have lots of accessory lights on them although there are exceptions.

Yeah, he didn't route the wires to the right place and didn't even put in a distributor, if he had the oversized wires wouldn't have room on it anyway.

Well that would be quite expensive if you are going to do that with the CTM light kits, there are only 10 lamps in the kit and Jamie at Moluminum takes $6.50 each. So count how many lamps you need, divide with 10 so you get how many sets you need and take that number times 6.50.

1:25 as most of the AMT kits are.

As I also live in Sweden I have to say yes, but that configuration is more for the central European countries where they mostly use 2 axle tractors, the ones we have here are mostly 3 or more axles. Nice work Mattias.

Yes, I know they are not exacty right but they are the closest Joseph has right now, the vacuum diaphragm housing for the secondarys can be carefully removed to make it look like it's mechanical and the choke housing can be cut down slightly to more resemble the carbs "Grumpy" used, but it's harder to fix the secondary metering block as the secondary side doesn't have any on these carburetors...the regular 4160 series carbs don't have a metering block on the secondary side so what Joseph has is right...but the ones used in racing was modified. The carburetors are very visible on a race car model as many race cars don't use air cleaners (at least for drag racing) so they need to be very detailed to look right on the model. IMHO Joseph has the best detailed carburetors out there, but most of the ones he offers today are not really suited for race car use were the carbs are out in the open as the choke butterfies are closed on many of the carbs he has now. Race cars don't have chokes and it's the first thing to go when you adapt a carb for racing use, so if the choke butterfly on his carbs had been open it could be cut off and the venturi detail inside the choke housing can be shown, but the best option is to leave the choke butterfly off alltogether on a racing version, in that case you can keep the choke housing as is or it can be cut down and/or shaved off if you want to. Today Holley and others offer carburetors for racing use off the shelf without any choke housing what so ever, but it was another thing back then when you had to modify regular units. Many of the racing carbs are also all mechanical with no vacuum housings. So I wish Joseph did more racing versions of his carburetors and I also wish that he would do detailed versions of the Holley 4500 Dominator, because the Dominators in the Revell/Monogram Pro Stock kits are awful and the best I have seen so far is the ones Futurattraction has with resin body and photo etched venturi detail but they are a bit fiddly to put together: The best model kit versions I have seen so far are from Jo-Han, they are definately not perfect but decent.

Nice work. I like the Lola T-70 Mk III a lot but I wish someone did it in 1:24-1:25 scale...I don't have room for big scale kits.

My thoughts exactly.

I believe the T548 C600 Napa City Delivery Box Truck, the T567 C900 Metro Tractor and the T596 C600 Stake Bed Truck all came in 1972, if you go by the kit numbers, wich I'm not sure you can as I don't know if AMT numbered them in order, the City Delivery was first as it has the lowest number. I have never seen one of these Ford trucks called out as a C800 wich is funny as that's what the door emblem says, just C600 and C900, I have the 2005 RC2 issue of the stake bed and it also has the tractor parts in it, I also have the 2013 issue of the Pepsi box truck, it doesn't have the short tractor frame rails but the rest is there. If they have done these right the C600 would have had a smaller engine, a lighter duty chassis with smaller wheels and other door emblems, the kit is right for a C900 except for the door emblems.

Joseph at Fireball has the best carburetors out there. But I would use these as they have no choke wich is not needed on a race car.

Yes the ERTL kit of the Rubber Duck truck doesn't look anything like the movie truck, far from it, so it's not worth the money they ask for them, I bought one back in 1978-79 when they were new and was so disappointed that I never finished it. The movie truck is a Western RS700L and the kit is a DM600 so the bull bar, hood ornament, air foil and some of the decals are the only things you can use from the kit, the rest is so wrong. It's better to buy the AITM resin kit instead and you will get one for about the same price as the kit asking price on ebay when it's offered there.

It looks to be a Holley 4160 series carburetor with side hung floats but without the vacuum chamber for the second stage, the 4150 series has center hung floats and have different looking float bowls.

The only modification is the addition of the Coca Cola vending machines and decals...otherwise it's probably the same as the last re-issue...and the re-issue before that...and...

Is it the Revell of Germany W900 or the Revell US W900 Aerodyne Snap Kit? Ohh...both are 1:25th scale by the way, I don't know of any Kenworth kits made in 1:24th scale.

Hasegawa and Italeri has Jeep MB's in 1:24th scale.

The Bandit 2 trailer is not really correct as the the movie trailer was a step deck trailer and smaller wheels, ERTL just used what they already had and did some new decals for their Great Dane box trailer.

Yes, but the kit had the same walking beam rear suspension as the regular 4300 kit. Here is a picture of the racing version of the F4270 from the 1981 catalogue with Dayton wheels, short hood and air ride, but it never appeared as they did the 4300 Eagle instead.