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It will be interesting to see wich version they will do as AMT did two versions of the wrecker, the original issue 359 Small Window Unilite cab version from 1972 wich I think only have been out once, or the later 359 1100 cab version wich hase been reissued several times over the years. The wrecker bed is the same for both kits but the base trucks are different, the California Hauler with the Detroit Diesel 8V71 and Western Unit Stabilaire suspension for the original issue and the later 1100 cab with a Cummins NTC350 and Peterbilt Airleaf suspension for the later issues.

Way too many think all Ford engines are blue...this couldn't be further from the truth. Ford has had several colors on the engines over the years, green, dark blue, bronze, red, black, blue are some. They didn't start with Ford engine blue until the 1966 model year, before 1966 down to 1959 all engines were black with different colored valve covers and air cleaner depending on engine and engine version, most of the Y-block engines are red, and most of the flatheads are green, but some are dark blue or bronze. Regarding the engine in the 1960 Starliner kits it's IMHO the best FE made in kit form so far and in the Custom and 2 'n 1 kits you have several options and lots of fun parts. Firing order is essential (at least on real engines) but where the #1 is located on the distributor depends on how it was put in when it was mounted, you start with the #1 wire where the rotor arm points when the #1 cylinder is at TDC and continue to follow the firing order counter clockwise, 15426378 on a FE. One have to keep in mind that when the scale on the harmonic damper is at 0 degrees (TDC) the engine can be either at #1 or #6 cylinder as the crank has to rotate two revolutions to fire all cylinders, so you have to make sure that it really is at #1...otherwise you will get a big surprise when you try to start it.

Alan Garber did some years ago, I don't know of any other.

The first General Lee kit had much of the old NASCAR things such as the interor, roll cage and some other stuff, but not everything, later reissues the kit was changed more. It's funny that the K&K Insurance #71 Daytona and the #22 Richard Brooks Daytona kit isn't the same, the #22 kit had the later generic NASCAR chassis as many of the other NASCAR kits had, the #71 kit had a stock type chassis as the other Chargers with some NASCAR stuff added. The #22 Brooks Dytona kit https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/mpc-instructions/nascar/mpc-richard-brooks-/ The #71 K&K Insurance Daytona kit https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/mpc-instructions/1-sort/mpc-dodge-charger-d/

Yes, MPC did a couple of altered versions based on the Mako Shark kit, this one and the ones here below.

Me too...so please Moebius...go for it.

The K&K Insurance decals for the Daytona are available from several aftermarket decal makers so that's easy, the hard bit is to make all modifications to do the kit as the NASCAR car was, the to do list is long.

Nice build indeed. I would like to get hold of a set of the poverty hubcaps, I have been looking all over for them as I use those poverty caps on my 1:1 Galaxie. 64 and 66-67 caps is easy as they are available in recent kits but I haven't found any 63 caps anywhere. Here is a picture of my car, yes it's the top of the line 500XL and I have more exclusive hubcaps for it (14 inch tho'), but I like this look with the 15-7, 15-8 inch wheels and poverty caps.

At that time Peterbilt should have had white engines as most of them did, but the Duel trucks had either Cat or Cummins I 6 engines depending on wich one of the trucks it was. The real truck in your picture is of the surviving Duel truck as it is today and that truck has a Cummins NTC 350 now but originally had a Cummins 262, the one used for most of the outside scenes was destroyed in the final crash scene and it had been repowered with a Cat 1674 sometime before it's movie appearence and had a yellow Cat 966 wheel loader style horizontal air cleaner.

Both the Pro Tech and VCG carbs are copys of these carbs found in all Revell/Monogram Pro Stock kits, not the best representation of a Holley 4500 Series Dominator.

Yes the carburetors Fireball does are great. But it depends on what you are doing, most of the Fireball carbs are good for street and light race and he doesn't have any Dominator style carbs yet. Most of the kit makers carburetors aren't that good at all and have much to desire detailwise and the best looking Holley Dominators from a kit are the ones in the old Jo-Han Pro Stock kits, another even better looking Dominator carb is the Ultra Detail Dominator kits from Futurattraction, otherwise it's scarse. From the ones in the pictures above I would only consider the Barry Grant King Demon, the others looks to be copys of the Monogram/Revell blob carbs from their Pro Stock kits and they doesn't come even close to what a real Holley 4500 Series Dominator carb looks like: So a good detailed carburetor is quite important when they are exposed on the model. Older style 4500 Series Dominator More recent style

No they are not the same but the bottom end of the Chevy R7 and Ford FR-9 NASCAR engines looks quite similar, and when they were still using distributors both had them at the front, they use individual coils now tho'. So as long as you have the right cylinder head/valve cover assembly where the engines differs the most you are quite safe.

Yes please, bring the Pro Stockers and I'll buy them immediately.

Nice looking build! You got the right stance on it, I have one of these planned sometime in the future. But the extra lugnut on the wheels will take more time in the pits.

Very nice, perfect lines.

I think all Fujimi GT40 Mk II kits are the same except for boxart and decals, Revell did a rebox of the Fujimi kits too.

The best thing I have used for removing chrome plating is (Castrol) Super Clean, the plating dissappears in a few minutes and the undercoat in a couple of hours, quick and easy.

Nice build Geoffrey.

Well it's not the plating that's running, it's the clear undercoat that's sprayed on way too thick wich is quite a common problem on Revell AG kits, the shiny plating itself is aluminum vapour and is very thin. The Cummins engine in this and many other of REVELL AG trucks is a NTC 475 Twin Turbo from late 70's to mid 80's.

The picture of the underside is of the restored 1970 car but the restored 1971 car looks pretty much the same. Sox & Martin had a couple of cars at the same time, match race cars and cars for the different sanctioning bodies (NHRA, AHRA) and they are slightly different. Two of the 1970 cars had number Pro 200 with chromed bumpers and Pro 705 with red bumpers and they are the most common in pictures, they used some other numbers as well, 556 with chromed bumpers and 333 with red bumpers (and spoilers) are two of them, I have also seen a couple of pictures where the Pro 200 number was on a car with red rear bumper and tail panel and a front and deck lid spoiler, the front bumper was chrome in one picture and red in another. The numbers used on the 1971 'Cudas was Pro 4 for Ronnie and Pro 44 for Herb McCandless, but I have also seen a couple pictures with Pro 200 on a 1971 car. I would go with white underside and black rear axle and K-member, blue engine (Jake King painted all engines he built for S&M Ford Engine Blue).

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One of the nicest chops I have seen on this body style, great job so far.

Nice to see that you're at it again Rickard.

I have 8 of these 1:6 scale Liberty Classic engines on my shelf. This one, the Shelby Cobra 427, the Ford 427 SOHC, the Ford 427 SOHC Top Fuel, the NASCAR Dodge 426 Race Hemi, the Mopar 426 Hemi Top Fuel, the Chevy 327 L84 Rochester Fuel Injection and the Chevy 427 L89 Tri Power. I built all of them except for the Shelby Cobra 427 wich I bought assembled from Summit Racing (I could not find a kit of it), most of the others was from Revell and the Dodge NASCAR Race Hemi came from Lindberg/Hawk. There were more of these Liberty Classics engines available, a couple more small block Chevys, and Mopar engines wich I don't have. I also have a 1:4 scale 426 Super Stock Hemi from Hawk and they also gave out another race engine in the same scale called Dodge A990 Race Hemi.

Very Nice SAR, Great Job.