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Were there ever any other paint schemes available in this kit,i know of the Watkins and the Movin on kits,but was it ever shown in any other colors? Myself i do not care what color it is on the box,it is great that they are even available.It wasnt that long ago there was nothing available in truck kits,i never thought i would ever see them again like this,very happy they are still around.harvey

It would be neat if they had done it with the car hauler,kind off like the old tournament of thrills set,the trailer and 3 of the rat fink cars and the ford C-600.That would have been something Ed Roth might have actually done back in the day.That way you could justify it having chrome spoke wheels i have never seen any Semi with a chrome spoke wheel. Harvey

Not sure about the 3500 series,but the 2500 series had a Hemi,it was a 6.4 litre model,had more power then the 5.7s.

Back in the days when these trailers were n the road,the car companies were very fussy about what kind of truck hauled their cars,it was always a ford truck hauling fords,a GMC hauling general motors products,etc. They always seemed to be an ugly old convenental of some sort,they were real work horses.They all had a rack on the roof for a car too. harvey

WOW, you have to study the first picture to make sure its not a real truck,your mirrors are a work of art,the real ones dont look that good. harvey

I have my own bodyshop for cars,what i did was put a bunch of the little testors bottles in a pint sized can,packed them in with towel so they wouldnt break and put them on my air powered paint shaker for a couple of minutes,it actually worked to revive some of the older bottles i had,I even put the aerosol cans on too,you have to watch them as the plastic tops will start to loosen,but it works 100% to make the mettallics loosen up. harvey

Here in Canada at the Great Hobbies web sitr they are 84.99 ? not cheap,but i am😆, not sure what im going to do. harvey

Ive noticed the prices for the "originals" seem to have dropped some since they announced the kit was coming back🤣.Seen a few that were sold in the 150-175 range,ive seen them as high as 400.00 .Pretty hard for me to give that much,especially since i remember buying them new in 74,for 3.75 at the local International dealership. harvey

Really neat to see this come back,i knew it only be a matter of time before it came out.I remembe r being able to buy these kits at the local International truck dealer,they sold some toys and models in the showroom then,the trucks were .3.75 the tractors were 2.75 ,at the K-mart across the road the truck kits were 5.95.At that time the K-mart did not carry any of the Ertl kits,they had all the others.The Ertl kits were hard to source around here at that time,this was in 1973-4.. Harvey

I remember this one from when i was a kid,it was just when it came out,had to have one.However being 10 years old it was too much for me,i couldnt get the rear suspension together enough for it to stand on its wheels,it had the infamous torsion bar suspension.I have hated it ever since,hopefully it will have the standard walking beam rearend this time.It is unreal all the old kits that are coming back,back 15 years ago i had to fight it out on ebay to get any kits at all.Really glad to see them coming back. Harvey

Make sure to fit the grille before you paint it.the grille is very tight in the opening,real easy to have it too high,then the cab wont sit right.Much easier to do now. Harvey

In the united states they had the big V6 in the GMC only,the chevys got the straight 6s,the GMC also had leaf springs on the rear,chevys had the coil springs with the two ladder bars?.I have never seen a 305 V6 here in canada,did have 3 of them when i was younger,had a 65 GMC it had the 250 6 in it,the chevys had 283 and 1 had a 235 6.The GMC had the coils in the rear as it was a canadian truck.The american GMC was more of a work truck then the chevys were. All the 3/4 tons had leafs in the rear. Harvey

They were slanted so they would fit under the hood,when they were laid over like that,they werent as high?.it was popular in some of the medium duty trucks,that normally didnt have the bigger motors. Harvey

i used the rear wheels of the tyrone malone hauler on one,they look pretty good,the kit tires are hideous,i even used the front tires on the kit rims,looks good too. harvey

As a rule the 5th wheel was set between the two rear wheels,or on a single axle it was directly over the wheels..That was how it was done back in the day. Harvey

its unreal the kits Round 2 keeps releasing,i remember fighting for these on ebay a few years back,its really nice to have the selection without the crazy prices. Harvey

Anyone know what truck it is,the later one or the early one with the small back window? I have a reissue,the red one on the box,its the later version,it even come with a sleeper. Harvey

When you put the kit together,watch this area as it is tricky to get right,has to be the right height or the box wont come down or there will be a gap between the heat tube. Harvey

Not sure but ithink it started out life a s a ford cabover,about a 69 vintage. harvey

The bottom dump trailer looks like the trailer that is behind the IH transtar 2 on the box art?,but that was a ERTL kit so i dont think it was a possibility at that time?,would be neat to get the garbage truck body,have been hearing about it for years. Harvey

If you put the part in where it is supposed to go,it doesnt look that bad?,AMT instructions were notorius for poor pictures.You need to be a mechanic to assemble them,just so you will have an idea as to what it is and where it goes.. Harvey

another way to tell will be by the light blue plastic the 4270 kit was cast from,it is a very light blue,the engine assy is all blue,the tranny was black.I had this kit when they first came out in 73,it was the first ERTL kit i had. Harvey

WOW,thought it was a real truck at first,simply amazing.Harvey

chrysler was experimenting with turbines back then,around 64-65 they had a fleet of cars they gave to the public to test for them,didnt work too well,they didnt make it to production..it is a strange picture,looks to be in a warehouse or loading dock of some sort.Harveyb

anyone know anything about this one,it is advertised on a local hobby shop website,says ford C-600 with the hostess dcals, truck is all wrong for a C-600 has tandem rear wheels and looks like a newer conventional truck.. http://www.greathobbies.com/productinfo/?prod_id=AMT1139