Chuck Most

These. And this.

Cool! That Mercury's on my to-do list for a few years, and now the Diamond Reo has been since I saw this video.

Put my name in the "AMT '32 Fords" column as well. As flawed as those kits are, I always keep coming back for more.

The Mercury engine would be a good substitute- both were the 8BA version of the engine. The Mercury had a longer stroke crank, but externally they were the same engine (other than the 1:1 engines being painted a different color depending on if they were in a Ford or Merc). The AMT Mercury engine is a very nice piece- doesn't take much more than basic detailing to make it really pop.

If you have the one in this box Or this one No. I think the stock carburetor is still on the chrome sprue, these had the "hopped up" engine parts. Like Aaron mentioned, the Ardun heads in the newer version are better. The original Monogram version of the kit has all the stock parts. Obviously, this would be the best one for the stock heads, intake, and exhaust- other than those parts, the kits share the same engine block halves, front cover, etc. I do have a couple of these stashed away, but no idea what parts are still in the boxes- I'll check and see if I have what you need.

I've seen the filler caps both ways, so I just went with the fillers toward the back like it shows on the instruction sheet. Most of the C90 and C92s I have seen tended to have the front- mounted fillers though. Shouldn't be hard to switch the tanks if it starts to bother me.

Not Jeff... but the price is $35.00 plus shipping.

Good to know, Bill! I've been thinking of building one of these as a welding rig.

I'll be watching this! That did happen in real life. In high school I had a friend with an '86- before he got it repainted, he replaced the original bed (which was rusted and dented pretty badly) with an '87-'97 style bed. It didn't quite match the cab, but looked a lot better than the one he had.

Very cool! I think the BF Goodrich Krawlers from Fireball Modelworks would look great on that Dodge- http://www.fireballmodels.info/

That's not a kit... it looks fully assembled to me.

I've actually been doing quite a bit of research on these, and so far here's what I dug up. (Note, some of the info here has already been mentioned, but what the hey...) The C3500HD had a special chassis, an 8" C-channel design which was available with reinforcing plates. The GVWR was 15,000 pounds, and three wheelbases were offered- 135.5", 159.5", and 183.5". The rear frame rails were flat and spaced at 34" wide. This special chassis necessitated the spacer panel between the grille and bumper, and the flared fenders. All 3500HDs were sold as cab-and-chassis trucks. Until 1996, only a standard cab was offered. A crew cab variant came for 1996. An extended cab model was never offered. The cabs used the "grab bar" type outer door handles used on the Kodiak/Top Kick medium duty trucks, and came with standard rooftop clearance lamps. The interior was upgraded with the rest of the C/K series trucks for 1995, unlike the Kodiak/Top Kick, which kept on using the 1988-style "flat" dash. The 3500HD could be ordered with pretty much all of the options, packages, and colors available on the regular C/K series trucks. Only the ultra-lux options like full leather seating were unavailable. They could be ordered with the halogen-lamp equipped Silverado/Sierra package grilles. Being a C series, no four-wheel drive version was ever offered from the factory (that would make it a K3500HD), though several aftermarket companies produced four-wheel drive versions. These conversions had a Dana 60 or 70 front axle. These were produced until 2002, making them the last of the GMT400 generation to be built. Available engines: 5.7 (350 small block) V8 (1991-1995) 7.4 (454 big block) V8 (1991-2000) 8.1 Vortec V8 (2001-2002) 6.5 Turbo Diesel (1992-2002) Available transmissions: 4L80E (Automatic) All Years NV4500 5-Speed (Manual) All Years Front Axle: Solid axle with leaf springs, disc brakes, five lug hubs Rear Axle: Dana 80 with leaf springs, disc brakes, ten bolt hubs (A few may have been built with a GM "Corporate" 14 bolt full floater with heavier duty axle tubes and hubs.) Wheels: 19.5" steel ten-lug- obviously they're interchangeable between the five-bolt front axle and ten bolt rear axles. I'm hoping maybe Bill (Longbox55) will chime in here- he probably knows more about these things than I do.

Probably should mention this too... The 3500HD had a slightly different frame than the lighter duty trucks- hence the 4" spacer between the bumper and grille. They also had a solid front axle with leaf springs. That being said- the MPC/AMT frame would be the best starting point short of scratchbuilding your own. Very few had the 350- most had either the 454 or 6.5 diesel. GM kind of slaps the HD name on a lot of their heavier duty pickups nowadays, but during this era, HD meant it was basically slotted above the regular 3500s and the below the Top Kick/Kodiak medium-duty trucks.

The 3500HD in this era wasn't offered as a pickup. It only came as a chassis/cab, stake bed, dump, etc.. The regular 3500s came as pickups, though. Mike- any of the MPC/AMT Chevy 1500 kits could supply the needed parts, though you might want to do away with the rear half of the chassis- ever understood why they molded the bed floor to the chassis on these kits.

Nice! They look like they're made of candy.

Very cool! There's a local truck I've been wanting to build for a while... this one isn't an HD, but the version I want to build is.

Sweet! Wouldn't mind just having one or two of what I see there, much less the whole haul!

Are there any existing kit-based V-Engine blocks that would be close in size? If there were, you could just kitbash and scratchbuild from there.

I ended up adjusting the passenger's side tank a bit- the look of it being "tweaked" started to lose its charm after a bit. I also added the battery boxes. Treadplate was added to the top of the driver's side box- the passenger's side box will have a missing lid and exposed batteries.

I seriously doubt it... but if they DID, I'd gladly eat my words and buy a few of them.

Don't forget the Marmon hood and decals. I wonder if they got the idea for that kit after seeing those Rolls-Royce and '40 Ford front end "conversions" from JC Whitney for VW Beetles.