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I got this list from internet somewhere and it's what I have, so I don't know if it's wrong or not.

KFS did a resin Longline conversion kit a while ago, it's due for reissue now in April, TQ63.

You have to be more specific. First of all, Italeri has several Iveco kits, and what exactly do you want to know about because I don't understand what you are after from your vague question.

Here is what I have for colors on Oldsmobile Generation 2 engines. 400 '65-'67 Bronze 400 '68-'69 Bronze 425 '65-'67 Red; Toronado is Blue 455 '68-'72 Red; Toronado & 1970+ is Metallic Blue 455 '72-'76 Metallic Blue High compression 425s and early 455s were painted red and the air clearners were an orange/red, definately a different shade from the engine. Low compression 425s had black air cleaners.

Hey, that would be great...the only folder I seem to have lost is the BJ folder, if had I lost everything I have saved over the years it wouldn't have been fun at all. I managed to copy everything else to another of my hard drives for safety. If one want's to keep up with what the new owner of the Movin' On truck is doing to it he goes by the name "Sundance" on the American Truck Historical Society forum, "Sundance" was the CB call sign for the Movin' On truck in the TV show.

Keep up the good work. The grey plastic in these ERTL trailers is quite strange, as I remember it from when I built one of mine it feels softer and somewhat fatter than regular styrene.

I think these are the closest available. These are the Truck Mate wheels for the Papa Truck and Hideout Truck transporters from Jamie at Mo'Luminum.

I have seen him post at the Model Truck Discussion Group Facebook site recently.

I don't understand it either, TV and movie trucks seems to be quite popular and I would for sure buy if the BJ and the Bear series came out on DVD's...I got the Movin' On DVD's a while ago and watched all episodes in about a week after I got them. But the BJ truck is quite easy to do from kits recently reissued, either the Revell Germany K100 Aerodyne or AMT Papa Truck can be used with new decals from Modeltruckin', for the AMT kit you need to change the engine and transmission and shorten the frame...with the Revell kit you only need to take off one of the two turbos and redo the aftercooler and you are close. Round 2 could have reissued the Movin' On truck when they did the W925 recently, but it's wrong anyway so I doesn't matter much. The Revell Germany W900/T900 kit is a much better starting point, change the hood, the engine, rear suspension and wheels, get decals from Modeltruckin' and you can get it quite close to what the TV series trucks looked like. I read that Mark, the new owner of the Sagehorn Movin' On truck (wich is one of the two first season trucks) is changing it back to original specs as it was back in 1974 with a Cummins VT903 and torsion bar rear suspension. The last thing I read about it was in early January and I don't know if it's done yet.

As far as I know it was Paul Sagehorn, Sparta, WI, who owned the only surviving Movin' On truck found so far and he found the original the BJ and the Bear No 3 truck and restored it, one of the other BJ trucks used in the series is supposed to be in Australia. Paul have since then sold the Movin' On truck to a guy named Mark and it's now in Collierville, Tennesee. Here is the picture of the recovery and I had more pics of the restoration downloaded from Pauls TVTruckin website but they disappeared in an external hard drive crash the other week (I managed to save most of my reference pictures tho' but the BJ folder is gone), and the website is now gone so I can't get them back. The surviving Duel truck is owned by Brad Wilke and the Convoy "Rubber Duck" truck is owned by Anthony Fox if nothing has changed lately, none of the Smokey And The Bandit trucks from the movie has surfaced yet but there is a very accurate replica built by Brad Wilke. Here they are all together at a truck show some time ago with Rob Mariani, pictures found on the web somewhere and the credits goes to the photographer.

The Mopar muscle cars had two rear ends, a 8 3/4 inch and a Dana 60, most of the automatic cars had the 8 3/4 inch and the manual cars had the Dana, it was a truck axle and a lot beefier and withstood the punishment better...but it's a heavy beast. If you are going to build a NASCAR "Cup" Mopar from the late 60's and early 70's you need to use the 8 3/4 inch rear end as it was the one they used before all went to the Ford 9 inch they still use today. Both these axles can be found in many kits and at least the Dana are done by the aftermarket.

I just noticed we can't edit our own posts in the private message section...why is that? That has allways been possible before, but now after you have posted a message it's not possible to edit it. And I don't think the edit feature on the forum is just "for the convenience of a few" as Bob put it in the post above, I think many here edits their posts now and then...and there is no preview feature so if we can't edit the posts and you see something you want to change it after it has been posted it can't be fixed afterwards. For me who don't have English as my native language, and we are many here as this forum has members from all over the world, I sometimes have to edit the posts just to get spelling, punctuation and sentence structure right so my posts will be understandable.

One of them did, the production company had at least one backup for each season, it's not uncommon to do that, if one breaks down the other is still working and the production can go on uninterupted.

Don't worry, you can say it's a later re-power, and I have also seen engine manufacturers colors in Peterbilts where they should have had white engines (before 1984 that is), so all didn't have white engines.

Interesting subject and very well executed.

A source for thin aluminum is regular soda cans, they work fine if you don't need large pieces.

Nice result indeed.

It's not a bad idea to test fit everything before paint so one can do adjustments if necessary.

I like this one, John Force's 1994 car. And this one from 1996. And my favourite is the Driver Of The Year car from 1997 and I have a picture of this car called "In The Spotlight" original artwork by Kenny Youngblood on my wall.

I think it's mostly because the streched look is in right now when people customizes their trucks. Of course a longer wheel base gives you a smoother ride, but I'm more old school and personally I think most of the "over stretched" trucks looks ridiculous and impractical, because you don't need 10 feet of space between the sleeper and trailer...but on the other hand, when has practical and custom been mentioned in the same line.

Both the AMT K123 and W925 wich has the same drivers seat base has been reissued lately so the kits can't be that hard to find, the K100 Aerodyne kit is also quite easy to find as the Tyrone Malone Papa Truck transporter was reissued not long ago. Yes...or use the seats from the AMT K100 Aerodyne with K123/W925 bases or detail up the bases from the K100 Aerodyne, the seat base can of course be scratch built too as it isn't that complicated. You decide for yourself how you will attack this. K100 seats like they are in the BJ truck. AMT K123 seat. AMT W925 seat. AMT K100 Aerodyne seat.

Looks like it could be from something like a crawler crane or something like that, the pads on the tracks looks like excavator pads tho'.

My thought as well...I tried to go back and edit one of my posts I made about an hour ago just now as it wasn't that clear of what I meant but I thought something was wrong as the edit thing was gone. I don't do this often but sometimes it's good to be able to go back and edit earlier posts...if it's locked after 45 minutes it's not possible and you have to do a new post to clearify what you originally meant...not that good and user friendly in my book.

I see Imex use the same 7424 kit number as the original Revell issue has, the "Packaged in USA" is a clue to it's most likely a rebox.

It has one as do the W925, the K100 Aerodyne kit has two but not at the same detail level. You will not see much of them if you don't open the doors but the Revell kit has opening doors so one might want to have the right bases.