Chuck Most

Years ago somebody cast the proper hubcaps, Mopar police wheels, and even a few front end pieces to convert the kit to a different year or to a Plymouth Fury, but all that stuff has been out of production since the '90's from what I can tell. I'd personally really like to see more stuff available for these kits.

3/4 or 1 ton- I think GM 1/2 tons of this era had six-bolt wheels.

Every time I go to the scrap yard, I find myself constantly amazed at the type of stuff people just throw away...

Awesome!

The Dana axles are near the top of my "gotta get those" list. Other than that all I want to know is if he's tired of people asking him if he really is the guy from Journey.

I'd like to try something similar, but with an AA flat bed truck.

The grille on my buddy Mike's 120 looked like that toward the end of its useful life- a 70 MPH deer hit finished the job a year or two before he finally "retired" it, at which point it had a super stylish winter cover/window screen ensemble in the opening. The thing was in great mechanical shape, but Mike never was much for putting on appearances when it came to that Freightliner.

And finally... managed to get a pic of the other side!

This model could be the mini-me of an unfortunate 510 that used to sit under a lean-to by a barn near my house years ago. I remember it being there as far back as the late '80's- it finally disappeared about ten years ago, along with the barn.

You mean Bruce Wayne? Yeah- but he's apparently too busy being a millionaire playboy and/or caped vigilante to return my calls...

DIE OPENER (2014) Action/Thriller, Rated R Harry Pristovnik (Tom Hanks), a mere layman, is taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber (Tom Green) during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles, and must revive a dead garage door opener to save himself and the other hostages. Sounds pretty good to me. I just hope there's no nudity...

I take it you don't frequent too many "gentlemen's clubs", don't you? There's one place where cash is still king. Not that I'd know firsthand. A buddy told me. Yeah...

Bats irked me today. Well not so much the bats, or the fact that in the last 24 hours I've caught two of them flying around in circles in one room or another of the house, but the fact that I can't seem to find where they're coming in. Chimney is ruled out- that's sealed off after I had a minor fire in December, and I don't see how they can wiggle through the grates over the vents, unless a bat can squeeze through a hole that's only about a quarter inch wide. They certainly aren't getting into the house by any obvious means. That, and the right front caliper on my pickup gave out. What irks me about that is that it's only about three years old, while the factory 1994 caliper on the other side still works just fine. I only replaced this one because I stripped out the thread for the bleeder screw when I was changing out a brake line.

Nope. Interestingly, I had a photo of Matty Winspur's '54 tacked on the wall next to my workbench when I built what became the Led Hornet, but I had no idea that was Frank's father's car until now. I was looking forward to the '54- not just for the obvious reasons, but because I wanted to do a model of the car that basically launched Jack Clifford's company. He won more than a few races and set a ten-year NHRA L/Stock record with his '54 coupe, and that was before he did anything other than tune the engine. Many of the early Clifford Performance parts were for the Hudson six. So of course I wanted to do a model of that car, but now, I'm pretty certain I'll have to mark a Matty Winspur Hornet next to it on the shelf.

I don't know if it's just me, but I love how a dump truck looks with some well done weathering. Tells a more compelling story when you look at the finished project. Very cool combo! Now pardon me but I must ask- what do you have in mind for that IH Transtar COE I glimpsed in the top two photos?

What... too subtle?

Right here... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89411

Good call on building your own bed- I've seen a few 1:1 conversions along these lines using a factory dually bed, and they look like... well... a Class 8 truck with a factory dually bed stuck on the back.

I haven't, but I do have a spare cab, plenty of sheet styrene, and a 1:1 '59 C-900 out back with all the reference material I need, and I would like to try that. Maybe one of these days... In the meantime, I just want to make a bit more progress on these two for now.

More like have fun with all the seats this thing's gonna need. This one's going to be good- if anybody can pull off a project like this, Kenn's the guy to do it.

Can't wait for more- even though I'm afraid I might have to.

I'm already liking it!

Nope, right! I think I might have a better idea of what cab types a guy might be more likely to see on a given highway tractor in my area than you do. Maybe down Atlanta way it's another matter with the FLD 120, but up here you see way more with sleepers than day cabs. I know that because '90's FLD 120s are getting to be a rare sight up here, and I tend to notice one when I see one. Even many of the farm rigs have sleepers. Only way they'd outnumber the sleeper cabs is if you want to count the Army ones, which you'll see all the time on US-127.

What can I say other than nyuk nyuk?

I got the VCG Resins '73-75 grille for the AMT "1978" F350 kit a while back, and finallly got around to getting the '76-77 style grille from Bandit just recently. Just like with the VCG grille, this one will easily backdate the kit and make the engine, drivetrain, and bed type depicted in the AMT kit correct. To do a '77- leave the cowl trim where it is and remove the rocker panel trim (and replace with '77-79 style if you want) to have a truck that will look factory correct on your shelf. Casting quality is great- Kenny has never let me down, and this grille is no exception. A quick test fit to the AMT cab showed that mine dropped right into place, no warp or shrinkage. Very nicely done piece, and a great way to fill a gap or two in your F-Series fleet.