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Well, let it be said I am not afraid to admit I was wrong, and man, WAS I WRONG!!!! I must not have even paid much attention to the show I told you to watch, because further research has turned up that the floor of the upper deck is SOLID!! Here is one I found of a view of the top floor. Here is one I happened to find looking under NASCAR haulers for sale, with much better interior shots. The "office"! Here's a couple other interior pics I found that might help out. And one with a decent shot of the ramp.

Sorry for not being on in a few days Kyle, I've not been getting along very well with my new blood pressure medicine and have been down almost all week! Anyway, back to the pics to help you out, this is very much like the 1:1 haulers like when you see the whining babies storming into the hauler after a bad race, someone with the numbers 1 and 8 in their car number comes to mind!! And if you didn't guess, this is the 1/32 scale again. As for the buttressing, I guess you mean support for the upper deck, there is none. The side cabinets also contain the surface for the cars, there is no other floor. If you need another pic without the cars, let me know. Also, if you get the Speed Channel, try to watch the "American Trucker" episode called "Cup to Go". It follows Roush Racing on the road from Pheonix to Las Vegas and shows some nice inside scenes in the hauler!

That's what I figured to Ben, and it wasn't only the instructions Monogram messed up, but the mounts themselves too!

WHERE IN THE BLEEEP DO YOU SEE BIG E IN THAT POMPOUS ARROGANT BLEEEEEEEEEP!?!?!?! I'm sorry, but I'm a diehard Dale Sr fan, and I don't see any Dale Sr in that idiot!!! Dale Sr didn't whine and cry like this crybaby does, and I would bet if Dale was still around, he would have already gave the little crybaby an attitude adjustment into the outside wall!

After the stupid stunt he pulled with Kevin Harvick pushing and unmanned car on pit road, he's all three!! I'D PAY TO WATCH THAT, OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!!!

I'm not trying to start anything with you Skip, but this was the statement that at least mad me angry in that thread. It's water under the bridge to me now, I had my say and moved on. Oh, and thanks for noticing I haven't been on for most of this week Skip, my new blood pressure medicine has been causing some bad side effects this past week and I've been not feeling well. This has been the first time I've felt like even turning on my computer!

I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Rob. In my opinion, a narrow subject and restrictive rules is just a doom for failure, or at least not many participants. Even though I do enjoy all forms of motorsport, the DP/GT racing like ALMS is one I just don't follow heavily enough to even think of building models of, and the only thing I even have on the shelf out of 450+ kits is a Corvette C5R, and I can't even build it for this because it is a specific car (Dale Earnhardt Sr's 2001 car in the 24 Hrs of Daytona) and there is no way it will be altered for any reason. This is just my opinion, but consider letting all forms of motorsports enjoy the build, after all you did call it a "Racing Community Build"!

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Not a problem at all, Kyle!

In the case of the poll thread in question, no I don't care!! As I stated earlier, the thread title is poorly worded, and I'm sure the thread starter would rather have TRUE opinions rather than many hollow votes in the "Not even if I got it for free!" option. I don't see any reason this flies in the face of what this forum is about, because the poll in question is targeted to a niche market. I sure wouldn't want you to vote about a heavy truck cab or part if you don't build trucks, because your hollow "I don't care" vote might just discourage the caster from making something us truck modelers would kill to have!

I've never had one of the haulers, but I did "Americanize" this Italeri Container trailer, and it was somewhat easy to convert. The only modifications I had to make to it, other than cutting off the rear European taillights, was to move the front axle rearward to convert the spread axle to a more traditional tandem axle like the container chassis I've seen here. There was almost enough space between the axles to fit another set of tires! The only other modification I had to make was to move the trailer kingpin forward, American trailers do not have as deep of a kingpin setting as the European counterparts. The tip of the pen in this pic shows where the kingpin was before I moved it.

No, the rails like what are on the reefer van in my pic does only two jobs, attaches the suspension frame to the trailer and allows for the suspension tandems to be slid forward or rearward for the adjustment of axle weights. You can't see them in the pic, but all along the rail are holes for pins that come from the suspension to go into, the suspension itself is only held to the trailer by four and sometimes only two pins! The trailers that have fixed axles like a spread axle trailer (even though there are a few with a moveable front axle) or a tandem setup like the 1/32 scale transporter in my pic don't even have those rails, the suspensions are fixed directly to the floor of the trailer. The load bearing parts and frame of the trailer are what is unpainted on the trailer floor in the pic of the silver trailer. As for pics of the underside of the 1/32 hauler, here you are. One strange thing I noticed when I was taking these for you, the airbags on this suspension face forward, where most trailers I've ever pulled face towards the rear. I don't know if this is correct or if it is an error on Monogram's part, I've never had the good fortune to ever be underneath a real hauler!

In this case, that might just be a good reason!! My true thoughts are this, Greg, if polls were worded with topic titles that at least indicates it is or might be a poll, less people may read it in the first place. This poll you provided the link to just merely states "37 Ford truck grill", and if someone like me who tries to read new threads as they come up while I'm online or if you are looking in the new content and don't either look at the icon next to the thread title or just don't know what the poll icon looks like, a title like "37 Ford truck grille" can mean anything! A vague title like that can mean you are looking for one, maybe need information on how to detail one, it could be 1:1 reference pics for helping others detail one, the list can go on and on. The vague titles can lead to many views from people, like Mark said, could care less. If the title was at least something like "Poll:Who would be interested in a resin 37 Ford truck grille?", many less would have probably viewed the thread. Oh, and by the way, only 20 people voted on it, and 7 of those don't care!!

Not only that, but the lack of any antennas for telemetry and team communtications. As an F1 fan, if this turns out to be real, I'll eat my Ferrari hat!!

I've never had one of those kits, so that could be a real possibility, but it would need to be "Americanized". Those trailers are based on European lorries (trucks in the Queen's English ), so they are modeled to European specs.

Kyle, in my opinion, I would start with neither kit you mentioned, the ride height would be too high. You would be surprised how low the racing trailers actually sit and even though this is not the greatest pic, here's how one of my 1/32 scale haulers look. If you want to use a kit as the base and modify it into a modern trailer, I would start with an AMT hauler that was released (a reissue of the 70s moving vans) in the late 80s/early 90s and modify from there. It would need lengthened and widened for a modern trailer, but would be a much better base to start with. Since it is a 70s era trailer modified for hauler duty, the dimensions of the kit only equal to 40 foot long and 96 inches wide. Most of the modern day trailers you'd find at the track nowadays are 53 footers, and 102 inches wide. If you use a kit as your base for the frame, Evergreen should be fine, but in reality, the floor makes up part of the frame, as does the base of the walls. Again, it's a little hard to see in this pic, but this is how a bottom of a real trailer looks. As for airbags, the kits you mentioned do not come with airbag suspension, and neither does the AMT moving van/hauler kits. You would probably be going aftermarket for those. Finally, you are right on all dimentions for modern trailers, 53 foot long, 102 inches wide, and 13 foot 6 inches tall. The 110 inch markings you mentioned is for the inside height of the van trailer, and it has nothing to do with the outer dimentions. I hope this helps.

A 53 footer in the trailer's 1/25 scale is 25.44 inches long and if you scale it up to match the truck's 1/24 scale, it would be 26.5 inches long.

Watch a little to much "Muscle Cars", do we?!?!

Maybe that's why my Ford wouldn't start this morning!?!?! Wait, that was at 10:30AM EDT, so it would have been too early, so I guess I just have to fix those darn glowplugs tomorrow. I probably had the only diesel in the world that needed the block heater plugged in on an 80 degree day, thanks for the phony balony end story!! That's funny right there, I don't care who you are!!

That's looking nice Stewart.

Nice job!!

Very nice concept. What scale is everything in?

I'd have to look back at the video again to be 100% sure, but I think there was even a Bronco or Blazer in the video.

I agree 100% Greg, that's why I concider the diecast kits a "rainy day" build, no matter what the weather is! I find them as a nice change to the normal build that I've got tons of scratchbuilding or modifications to or I just want to sharpen up my detail painting skills. I do have to challenge your last comment though, it is a model car, a model RAIL CAR!!

I very much agree with you too Ken, I'm somehow drawn to the diecast reviews like a moth to a flame. I think sometimes it's interesting just to see what is available in diecast that isn't in kit form.