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Looks great.

Does anyone know where I can find these poverty hubcaps in 1:25th scale? I need a set to do a model of my real car.

Nice result, you did a good job of it. One have to remember that most of the AMT truck kits was originally issued in the early to mid 70's (the first came 1969) and has been re-issued again and again over the years so the molds are quite worn...so a lot of cleanup is for sure necessary for most of them.

Looking at pictures of the revised model and the real cars I have to agree with you, they still haven't entirely captured the look the real cars front have. Something has bugged me about the front since I saw the pictures of the revised model, I think the "eyebrows" above the outer headlights could have been even more straight and flat, because the front of the real '69 Mustang has a mean and angry look to it and the model still does not really have that. But as you say, it's way better than it was.

The thing I find most difficult do replicate is the semi-translucent beigeish color of the plastic Porsche used on the fans, fan shroud and many other things on the racing cars.

Ohyes...why should it be easy.

I also have the book you are talking about...and I also have collected magazines about their cars from the late 60's early 70's era. The book could have been more detailed and tell more of what cars they used, when, wich class and sanctioning body as they ran several cars in different classes and sanctioning bodys, and there are some faults in the book like wrong model year on some cars and such...but as you say, many good pictures. Sox&Martin cars can be a bit confusing because they used several cars each year. They had at least two or maybe even more B-body cars in 1968, I have seen pictures of one GTX with a 440 and one Road Runner with a 426 Hemi, the Hemi car has the cartoon road runner sticker behind the door and the GTX doesn't...I also have pictures of two different paint schemes on the 68 cars, one where the red on the side going all the way down and one where the lower part is white, I don't know if they are the same cars or if they had more. I have seen pictures of one GTX and at least two Road Runner's for 1969, one RR with a 440 6BBL they called "Project Wedge" (it has the 6BBL scoop) and one RR with 426 Hemi, the Hemi car also had a scoop, and radiused rear wheel wells wich none of their other B-body cars had, and it has the same cartoon road runner decal the 68 car had, I don't know if it's the 68 car updated with 69 grille and tail lights or if it was a new build. I have also seen pictures of a 69 Road Runner they ran in Modified Production with a 67 hood scoop on it. One more thing with the Sox&Martin cars is that they doesn't allways have side markers, they were very different between 68 and 69 and would tell what year the body is...but they are not on all cars they had.

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.