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Of course, it's your model and you do as you please.

As far as I know an electric car with batteries is not on zero for environmental impact until after at least five years after the car is made...then you have to replace the battery pack and you step back a couple of years again and what do you do with the old batteries, the materials for making the batteries are not from eternal sources and will eventually be used up, the mileage for these cars is relatively short and it takes a long time to re-charge, and how is the power you charge your car with made, to be environmentally friendly it has to be generated with a renewable source as solar, wind, water or something similar, some places in the world the cars need heaters and that takes power and cuts down on the mileage. The power main grids in the world are not dimensioned for the increased need if everyone is charging their cars at pretty much the same time frame wich will happen when people come back from work for example, so most of the the main power grid cables has to be replaced for a lot larger capacity as the need will increase a lot if everyone buys battery powered cars....lots of things to consider. No, IMHO Hydrogen is the future and it's the most common material in the universe, unfortunately the Hydrogen is bound in water here on earth. You can either burn the hydrogen gas in an internal combustion engine as we do now with our fossil fueled vehicles, or use it in a fuel cell and make your own power wich is more efficient, and the exhaust is plain water vapour as it goes back to water again, it's relatively fast to re-fuel like a fossil fueled car today so the mileage is not a problem, you can have a heater as you make your own power, it's just a matter of time until they will come up with a good solution for the storage problem, efficient and not as costly ways to split the hydrogen from the oxygen in water, and gear up re-fueling stations. If the future of drag racing is this eCOPO or other electric cars I will for sure stop going to the races, the great noice of suped up V8:s, the smell of racing fuel or nitro methane exhaust, the quick ET's and speeds, and the nice cars is the whole experience...if you take any of these things away it's nothing for me...and that goes for all kinds of motor racing. Yes the electric cars are fast and quick as you get all the torque from the motor instantly but the lack of the noise and smells makes it uninteresting. Yes I'm old and sometimes stubborn and retro, but I'm a realist and see things as they are.

I believe the 8V-92 engines were painted as a complete unit...it could also have been white (I think the instructions calls out for white)...but I have not seen any pictures of the Papa Truck engine anywhere so I don't know for sure wich color it should be...white or silver are correct for the 8V-92 anyway as Kenworth had white engines up to 1975, but as allways there are exceptions to the rule as you can see engine manufacturers colors before and white engines after that date in Kenworth trucks. The engine in the Hideout Truck transporter was silver with chrome valve covers tho'.

The Monogram Pro Modeler 70 Ford Torino GT kit also have the 385 series 429-460, and except for the factory stock parts this kit has some hop up parts like headers, Ford Motorsport valve covers and a custom air cleaner for the engine.

Ford Poppy Red and Ford and Mercury Calypso Coral and Competition Orange is the same color, it has the same color codes from Ford M1730, PPG 60449, Sherwin Williams 2366. Chrysler Corporation also used that shade and the code is DT3338. All according to the paintref.com website.

I think you could get it with a Cummins V-903, Detroit Diesel 8V-71.

No 1:25th scale 57 Chevy Covertible from AMT as far as I know, but they did one in 1:16th scale.

The 348 and 409 look the same and most of the differences between them are internal except for the oil dipstick placement, it's on the drivers side on the 348 and passenger side on the 409, the 348 came in 1958 so large Chevy's from 1958 up to 1965 was available with the Mk 1 Big Block W-engine.

Very cool truck indeed and nice pictures. If it had been delivered new with the old 4-bag air ride rear suspension the designation should be K-123, the K-125/W-925 designation is torsion bar dual drive only.

I was at the Pegasus shop in Montclair last Sunday after the Pomona Swap Meet and it was business as usual there. I bought the A/FX 65 Comet and a couple of wheel sets then.

I also have this kit. I saw the UP 4014 at the train museum at Pomona, California some years ago, the 4014 is the one Union Pacific are restoring back to running order right now in Cheyenne, Wyoming...and they ARE huge.

This "thing" they call an engine is not accurate for anything really.

The AMT 58 Edsel Pacer has a 361 FE engine called E400 wich was the torque number for the engine (the MEL 410 engine in the larger cars was called E475), the AMT 60 Starliner has a 352 High Performance FE engine...so to answer your question, they are from the same family as both are FE's and the outside looks very similar, but they are not the same engine as there are internal differences. The 361 had the same 4.05" bore as the later 390 and the 352 has smaller 4.00" bore, the stroke are 3.50" for both the 361 and 352.

Street Legal...well it depends on where you live...there is no way we could get something like these cars through the car safety inspection and drive it on the roads here in Sweden. They wouldn't even let the black 57 Chevy through.

The 409 didn't come until 1961 so a 1960 Chevy should have a 348 too, but as you say, they look the same except for oil dipstick location, drivers side for the 348 and passenger side for the 409.

NHRA changed the designations for supercharged cars in the Gas classes from the previous A/GS, B/GS and C/GS (A, B and C/Gas Supercharged) in 1966 to to AA/G, BB/G and CC/G. The reason was to bring the class designations more in line with the rest of the classes where the double letter (AA, BB, CC) itself designated the class as a supercharged class. Prior to 1969, Anglias, with their 90 inch wheelbase were only legal for the unblown gasser classes but was now legal as supercharged as NHRA changed the minimum wheelbase from 92 to 90 inches for supercharged cars.

They used two types of engines in this car, a Big Block Chevy wich was the engine with this 3-port injector but a regular "bug Catcher was also used on the BBC, the other engine used was a 392 style Hemi with a "bug catcher" injector hat, no 426 style hemi was used AFAK...so you have two engine options for it. The injector is called an upright injector and could be Enderle, Hilborn or some other manufacturer, Enderle does a similar 3-port today and Hilborn has 2 and 4-port upright. The car from 1973-ish with the Big Block Chevy and 3-port injector. A later picture with the BBC and a "bug catcher" The car with the 392 Hemi in 1974

I have never seen any two speed axles in hot rods, street cars or race cars other than the Halibrand/Frankland quick change style, and you physically have to take off the rear cover and change the gearing in them. I would guess that's the case, I built the Malibu Street Rat back in the day and I think it has to be the Olds W 27 axle. I have the black kit handy and the axle in it is a Dana 60.

That's probably true, in my 2014 NHRA rulebook (I just looked) the maximum allowed wheelbase for Pro Stock is 105" and the shortest is 104"...but I don't know how it was before that as I don't have any older rule books. I know the Generation 3 Camaro and Firebird didn't handle that well on the track as the wheelbase was short, and when the longer 107.5 wheelbase mid 90's Olds Cutlass came it became popular as it handled a lot better than the Camaro/Firebird did and many used it as long as the body style was allowed in NHRA (5 years) and finally had to change to a newer style. Another factor wich decide what the Pro teams use is what the Official Car for NHRA is at the time, I know it has been Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and I believe it's Toyota now...but you don't see many Toyota bodied Pro Stock cars...yet. But with the current rules it's for sure possible as you can have any body/engine combination as long as the body is newer than 5 years. The early Generation 3 Firebird John built here is the Pro Street "White Lightning" version from 1986-87 and if I remeber correctly has never been reissued....it's based on the Monogram Camaro Pro Stock kits and it has the first version of the chassis (Reher Morrison and Frank Iaconio Camaros). This chassis evolved two times from the original one from 1984 as they changed bodys and as you say the chassis in the recently reissued Reher Morrison Camaro and the upcoming reissue of the Frank Iaconio Camaro is from the latest Firebird versions from 1999 (Summit Racing and GM Goodwrench Firebirds), they did a slightly updated version before that in 1991 (STP and Pennzoil Firebirds and L.A.P.D. Camaro). They modified the tool for the chassis when they did this so they can't go back without cutting a new tool as the old one doesn't exist anymore. Monogram did a couple of Pro Street kits in 1986-87 based on the first Pro Stock tooling and they did the "Mean And Nasty" Camaro, the "White Lightning" Firebird and the "Red Hot" Thunderbird...all with slicks and front runners, gold plated shiny bits and tinted windows. The "White Lightning" Firebird was never released as a Pro Stock, just the Pro Street version.

The Super Boss hood is the longer 74 inch hood. What's talked about here is the cowl extension used on trucks with higher horse power engines before the longer 74 inch hood came into production in 1970, they extended the cowl on the cab and used the shorter 63 inch hood without cutouts for the air cleaner tubes.

I bought one on ebay some time ago and it wouldn't surprise me if Round 2 re-issued it any day now. It's a AMT kit but AMT was owned by Lesney Products in Great Brittain between 1978 and 1983 wich made Matchbox toy models, so the kit boxes was labeled with both Matchbox and AMT brands at that time.

It would be nice if someone did decals to do the real version from the January 1971 Hot Rod article much like the model above. As far as I have read George didn't use this car much and it dissappeared soon after.

Nice build, but I'm curious, what's wrong with the wheelbase? The third generation Camaro and Firebird have the same 101 inch wheelbase and I assume the Pro Stock Camaro and Firebird race cars back in the day shared the same chassis specs...and as far as I know there is no limitation on the wheelbase other than it has to be right for the specific car type in the Pro Stock class, so the wheelbase is different depending on what car you use.

The SWC kit has decals to do the black or the blue version. These kits are nice but not entirely correct for the subjects they are supposed to be.

KFS has the 1693 marked as "Yellow Engine" and I think Spaulding Trading And Shipping may have it, he sells stuff from KFS and I bought one from him once on ebay a while ago.