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I don't know if you can call them big block engines, the 335 family Cleveland has the same 4.38" bore spacing and head bolt pattern as the 221-351Windsor. But the deck is taller, at least compared to the 221-302, and the 335 had two different deck hights, 9.206" for the 351 Cleveland and 10.297" for the 351M and 400, and the heads are wider due to the canted valves, so it's a physically larger engine than the Windsor...but big block...naah. Both the FE and 385 family 429-460 has larger bore spacing with 4.63" for the FE and 4.90" for the 385, so the FE could be called "medium" block and the 429-460 big block.

I looked at ebay right now and I saw several US Revell Pro Stocks with asking prices around 30 Dollars...and that's about what a new Moebius kit costs, some was around 50 and higher so they are a bit more expensive. One must keep in mind that most of these are OOP kits, the Reher-Morrison Camaro and the Glidden Motorcraft Thunderbird has been reissued recently but the others have not been out in many years...and the uncertainty of the future for the US Revell tooling might have kicked up the prices even more.

I have tried that, everything goes through Revell Germany now but they could not help me with parts for a recent kit issued less than a year ago. So I would not hold my breath asking for something.

It's easy to see if you know what you should look for. On the Windsor family engines (221-260-289-302 and 351 Windsor) the upper radiator hose goes into the front part of the intake manifold and the water goes through it to the heads, on the 335 family engines (351 Cleveland, 351M and 400) the upper radiator hose goes into the engine block.

I did and that's why I started this topic. They have obviously not heard of what a high center of gravity will do to the caracteristics of the vehicle, and ground clearance is not why they do it, the front is lowered so much that they can't pass a speed bump without scraping the bumper on the ground. So it's totally insane in my opinion and I would not drive one of these loaded at speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvWvydLA4xU Look at the truck passing the car 52 seconds in.

Here is the only picture I have found on their 65 Belvedere Super Stocker, all other pictures I have found of S&M 65 Plymouth's are of the altered wheelbase cars and it looks like they had two of them, one hard top and one sedan. So they can't have used it in the Super Stock configuration for very long.

Or otherwise destoyed doing something else from the tooling by changing it so it can't be changed back without redoing most of it, AMT changed the old Annuals to the next model year and some where even converted to race cars and so forth. Most of the old Jo-Han tooling are damaged or not complete and the few ones that were are lost...for example the 69 AMX, 71 'Cuda, 70 Olds 442 and the SC/Rambler...Testors used the tooling for these kits last when they did the HSO series and they used them once before that, but no one seems to know where the tooling are now...most likely at the plant who did the molding for them.

Easy, just mark the complete url in the address field in your browser, copy and paste it here directly...or klick at the chain link button in the tool field above the message box (fourth from the left between the underline button and the image button) and paste it there and click "insert into post"...either way it will work.

I personally think the "gasser" term is used recklessly nowadays thrown around on this and that...as I said in my earlier post, just because the car has a straight axle and the front up in the air doesn't automatically mean it's a gasser...yes gassers had that but so did many other race cars at the time. For me a gasser is a race car that could fit within the gas class rules from the period, nothing else.

X3 If a licensed drag racer here in Sweden gets cought in illegal street racing he looses his drag racing license, so it's pretty much the same over here.

To run in the Gas class back in the day the rules was quite hard, the car had to be close to street legal with upholstery, lights, starter, four wheel brakes and all, a gasser also had to have stock wheelbase and minimum wheelbase of 92 inches, a maximum engine setback of 10%, the crank centerline not over 24 inches from the ground, the total body hight could not be reduced by more that 4 inches, anything changed more than that it's an Altered and not a Gasser. So cars most today call Gassers are in fact Altereds as they are changed too much to fit within the Gasser rules, so just because you use a straight tube or beam front axle and jack the front up in the air doesn't automatically make the car a Gasser, Altereds and many other race cars also had the front up high to get a better weight transfer to the rear, this was not necessary when the wrinkle wall slicks came into use as they were a lot better than the recapped tires used before that. There was nothing in the rules that required original engines for the car in the Gas class, you could use whatever engine setup you liked as long as it ran on gasoline, and there were a pounds per cubic inch weight break rule.

One thing tho', the Mustang engine is 1:24th scale. AMT also has a 351C in the Ford Bronco kit, the one that was released with a Mercury Cougar race car and trailer.

Warren Yeah, the decals are too large...and wrong...and silver doesn't look that good. It would be nice to have photo etch emblems, there are some etch sets available but not with the right emblems. Tim Nice pictures but most of them are unfortunately out of focus and it's a little hard to see details on them, but thanks for your effort.

As I have mentioned before, I have this kit...so I will follow your progress. Regarding the tanks, it's not only the straps that are wrong, the steps are too short and the fillers are at the wrong place, they are in the middle of the tanks length wise in the movie as can be seen in the picture below (both sides are the same). I don't know but is the hood side emblem fixed, the ones in my kit reads RL700L, RL stands for R Western model with Lightweight frame (Aluminum), the movie truck had RS700L emblems and the RS stands for R Western model with Steel frame...slightly different but it should be right. The last L after the 700 stand for lightweight components on the cab, aluminum doors etc.

Those look nice.

The Polar Lights NASCAR kits are a bit demanding to build as they are a bit crude to say the least and they needs lots of work to look good, so I would not recommend going for a Polar Lights NASCAR kit if you're not an experienced builder. But they did model kits of cool subjects, that you can't take away from them.

As you probably know Ford had two 351 engines, 351 Windsor and the 351 Cleveland, they are quite different and have nothing in common except for the displacement...and they raced the Cleveland in Pro Stock at the time. 351 Cleveland engines are not that common in model kits but there are a few, but as you are doing a Pro Stocker the Futurattraction resin engine has all you need, and Scott has quality products.

Could be. Interesting pattern on the slicks.

Yes he did, first win since Gatornationals in March last year and 149th total.

As far as I know NHRA run the full 1/4 mile in National Events, except in Top Fuel and Funny Car wich run 1000 feet after Scott Kalitta's fatal crash at Englishtown NJ 10 years ago. NHRA have been trying to slow the nitro cars down since then and going to 1000 feet worked for a while, but now 10 years later they run just as fast or even faster in 1000 feet (336.57 mph for TF and 339.87 mph for FC) than they were doing in 1320 feet back in the day (337.58 mph for TF and 334.32 mph for FC), so NHRA has changed the way they prep the tracks and use a lot less traction compound on the tracks now, as of this year they have also mandated a rpm limit of 7900 for both nitro classes using a timing retarder and some other stuff to try to slow the cars down...good or bad...well I don't know...but if you don't do anything it will get out of hand pretty quick.

The car in that picture is Ohio George Montgomery's Malco 33 Willys, he appearently changed to valve covers with the Ford logo later.

Here is an article on Beswick's Comet from June 1965 Super Stock Magazine I had saved in my files for future reference.

I met Albert together with one of his friends (unfortunately I did not catch his name) at the Long Beach Hi-Perf Swap Meet back in November 2009, I thought I recognized him from photos I had seen on the Spotlight Hobbies Board and introduced myself and asked if I was right, I sure was and we shook hands and strolled together at the swap meet for quite a while, and talked as if we had been friends for a long time. He will surely be missed, goodbye my friend. This picture is borrowed from Albert's albums, his friend took the photo of us that day.

I have just ordered from him last week but I haven't heard anything yet