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And just goes to show what "Der Experten" (LOVE THAT!!) knows, because if the model is completed exactly as it appeared at 12:05 and the ammo box fell off at 12:06, wouldn't it still be in place at 12:05!?!?!?

I haven't heard of it coming out again Jerry, but around the time of most of the posts in this thread (2009) was when AMT did reissue it in the original box art.

There is only one kit I have ever bought with no intentions of building, and that is a Dale Earnhardt Lumina that is molded entirely in CLEAR plastic. At the time I found it, it was a few years after his passing, and I had never seen a clear kit before like that so I thought it might be rare. It turns out not to be that rare, but oh well, it's still something you don't see too often.

Obviously everyone else figured out how to find out the price, it wasn't very hard to find it.

I bought this kit probably 10 years ago for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 to $25. I'm not 100% sure, but it is at least very similar if it isn't a Heller reboxing of the old AMT 1/43 scale semis like this one currently on eBay with a "Buy it Now" price of $59.99. I'm sure that some probably think the $20 or so was steep for the Heller, and $60 is insane for the old AMT, but as many has said, some of these small scale kits pack a big punch in detail in a small package. The AMT as does my Heller (the reason I think it may be the old AMT molds, also saved a pic of the box contents of the AMT to compare to the Heller when I have more time) has just as many and if not more parts as their 1/25th scale counterparts and even include engines just as the 1/25th scale version does. In my opinion, especially for those of us who build big rigs but may have space constraints, even the $60 for the AMT on eBay is not bad considering that the same combination of the Pete 359 "California Hauler" kit recently reissued and the Freuhauf van released a few years ago are probably running around $30 a piece (if you can still find a trailer on a shelf somewhere) and the 1/43rd scale has the same level of detail as their bigger brothers and takes up much less space.

I'd be happy just to find the International mixer and a Beall tanker!! Nice score!

That shows just how much I know about the turbine cars, because I never even knew there was more than one or that they actually raced. I bought these for the tractors!

Did they do that kit in 1/20th scale, or are you talking about the 1/25th scale like this one? If it is that one, I know where there are TWO right now!

$125 for a Revell AG Can Do wrecker, and that was in 2001 during the second release of the kit.

I'm guessing you didn't read the entire thread? Please reread my post I quoted above from 2014.

In my case, crazy AND addicted!! Nope Angel, no updates on any of the four projects fighting for desk time as of late. My days off work last week when I wanted to do a little on this and get some paint on my B.R.B.O. build somehow went "POOF" and was gone before I even knew it! I'm hoping this "weekend" (my days off float every week because of my six day work week, Thursday and Friday are my weekend this week) I'll have what I wanted done last "weekend" done and more!

From one of the original Ryder release: http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/big-rigs-trailers--/amt-ford-louisville/cci09232009-00009.html#media Pictures 10 and 11 cover the box and lift gate.

Ken is right, and that is why the ones on my KW seem to drop so low, because they will be low! And as Larry said, the key word is CUSTOM! There are some big pipes coming out with the reducers like in the pic that do come out under the cab but there are also some that like my KW will be have to worry about speed bumps! And though I didn't get a very good pic of it (yes these are mine from the 2012 Walcott Trucker's Jamboree ) this truck looks like even the 45 angles you have would work because it looks like these pipes might be coming from underneath with a 45 then a short section into another 45 at the bottom of the heat shield.

No Jesse, they didn't, though the AMT "Movin On" Kenworth can be used as the truck from the original movie and the AMT GMC General with some modifications to the sleeper could be used as the truck from the second that the trailer is branded but not 100% correct for. That trailer in the second movie, though slight, has a lower floor than the kit trailer. Also, here is another truck that has been overlooked even by me the trucker, the F.L.A.G. mobile unit from "Knight Rider", which could be closely, but not 100% either, be built using AMT's GMC General and one of their old moving van/NASCAR hauler trailer kits. Early Seasons: Later Seasons: I'm not sure of the manufacturer, I can't read it on the pic I found and haven't been brushing up on my Chinese or Japanese lately , but there is a 1/28th scale kit of the later season version and appears to come with K.I.T.T. as well. One other that there is no "official" kit of, but can be made from AMT's Peterbilt 352 cabover kit and a trailer like the "Smokey and the Bandit" trailer (which is a 40 foot Great Dane dry goods trailer by the way) is "Goliath" from "Knight Rider".

I'm not sure of the actual length of the plow truck's frame, never actually measured it, but I had thought of using one of mine as a dual drive tractor. If I remember correctly, because it has been quite a few years since I was in my plow kits, but I'm almost certain that it does have a fifth wheel included in the kit.

You don't know until you try Brian, and paths can change!! I don't know how many changes I've already done on that Ford, and just thought I still have things to add like frame mounted toolboxes that I also bought after having the frame painted that I still have to make and fit mounts for.

That wouldn't be too far of a stretch depending on how much it shares with the recent "Deserter" reissue of the "Fall Guy" GMC.

And here is the specific page for them: http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/mpc-instructions/tv--movie/mpc-the-dukes-of-ha/

Yeah, but my tendency also includes starting but not finishing! I can't remember if I had this one or not, but I do remember the 1/25th scale original of the now Revell Kenworth. I just looked at the kit to see if I could find an original copyright, and I would say 1982, but oddly those copyrights also say "Revell". There is a copyright both in the roof of the sleeper and on the kingpin apron of the trailer of "Revell 1982".

Glad I could help Brian, and I think I'm going to try the same to make some mounts to try something like Clayton's setup for mine!

Thanks Michael, they are from Rhino's Custom Model Truck Parts, his curved tipped stacks with elbows. I asked him to custom bend these ones with the elbows to the front of the truck instead of having the elbows facing the frame the way he normally bends the elbows. I am also going to have him make a set of air intake pipes for the air cleaners so all the stacks match, but they will be only about a 5 or 6 inch pipe.

It all depends Michael, there are some of the larger diameter pipes that do have mufflers hidden in them, but most are just as the videos say....straight pipes! As for your project, unless I find your build thread before you answer , which 359 are you working on, is it the AMT or the Revell Snap with the little sleeper or the Revell of Germany glue kit with the larger sleeper? The only one I'm not familiar with is the AMT, but I know both the Revell kits do have regular mufflered stacks, and looking at the AMT's California Hauler instructions, the lower part of their stacks are also the mufflers. As for your question about adding fat stacks and not running mufflers for a custom, YES!!!! Neither of these customs are going to have mufflers and are going to be running big stacks! Ford with 8" stacks Kenworth K100 with 10" stacks!

A couple of my personal favorites that haven't even been mentioned yet. The Kenworth W 900 from "Movin On" and the Kenworth K100 Aerodyne from "BJ & the Bear"