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70% of earths surface is covered with water and it's in a constant cycle...and the hydrogen cycles back to water again after it's used so the water supply to do hydrogen is no problem at all...and it doesn't have to be fresh water to make hydrogen, sea water works fine. Yes you need electricity to separate out the hydrogen from the oxygen but there are more efficient ways on the way, and that electricity needed can come from wind, solar or hydroelectric power plants to be environmentally safe, the storage problem can for sure be solved, and using the hydrogen in a fuel cell to make electricity to power an elecric car is more efficient than to burn it in an internal combustion engine. So for me an electric car with batteries you have to charge is only a transition waiting for something better to come up...because it's definately not the final solution to the problem.

As far as the Convoy kit, they fetch good prices so you might as well sell it and make some bucks...because you can't build a correct Convoy Rubber Duck truck from it anyway without modifying it heavily. I bought one back in the day when it was new and the only usable parts for a Rubber Dock truck are the duck hood ornament, the bull bar and the roof air foil, the rest is wrong. You are better off getting the AITM Convoy resin kit instead if you want to do the Rubber Duck in the future.

Nice model. Jim DeFrank, owner of California Car Cover. A friend of mine bought two SS/AH Hemi's from him when DeFrank & Sons stopped racing in SS/AH, Hemi One and Hemi Three built by the late Joe Allread.

Another source is the engine in the recent tool AMT 67 Mustang or Shelby GT350, otherwise the 289 and 302 engines look the same so you can use either one.

It would have been more environmentally friendly to leave the cars as they were.

The Rubber Duck truck in the Convoy movie was a Western RS700L and the Road Warrior truck was a R600 so there are some differences between them, the main problem is that the old MPC/ERTL Convoy kit is a DM600 with a short hood and offset cab so it's completely different and not usable for any of these movie trucks if you want to do them correct. So the R685 is a better starting point if you want to do a Road Warrior truck...and Auslowe have most of the parts you need to do the truck right as mentioned before.

As I said in my earlier post, there are exceptions to the rule when it comes to Kenworth and Peterbilt engine colors, they were white from aproximately 1950 up to 1975 in Kenworths and up to 1985 in Perterbilts and Caterpillar was the last engine manufacturer to paint engines white for PACCAR...But... you can find white engines in KW and Pete trucks after said dates and engine manufacturer colors before said dates, so 1975 is not a definitive date when Kenworth stopped completely. The Papa Truck transporter is a 1976 VIT-200 Bicentennial Edition first unveiled at the International Truck Show March 24th 1976 and Papa Truck came into service with Malone in June 1976...so the engine is most likely silver. I have done lots of research on the Malone trucks over the years and collected everything I have found so far, I'm in contact now and then with Ken Harris who owns the tyronemalone.net website and Tyrone Malone and the Bandag diesel racing team facebook group, Ken worked for Malone and drove the Papa Truck transporter on the European Tour in 1989. The "fan card" for the Papa Truck on the Malone websites is a bit exaggerated, the engine doesn't have twin turbos as the card says, only one. Here is a picture of the engine in the Hideout Truck transporter wich is a regular 1978 Aerodyne specified similar to the Papa Truck but not a Bicentennial, otherwise they are pretty much the same. The "fan card" for the Hideout truck also says "8V-92T Twin Turbocharged 430 hp"...but I only see one turbo. As you can see the engine is silver in this truck.

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.