Very interesting stuff! Love the cars and trucks from that era. Good luck on this venture and I'll keep an eye out for your posts and for availability of these resin kits.
If you notice, the original post is from 2006. That was before they were forced to take the branding off the sidewalls and identifying them as such. It does make a good reference to what they were supposed to be.
AK Interactive sells a line of weathering products such as washes, pigments, paints etc etc used mainly by military modellers but also favoured by some auto modellers who like to do tired, rusted, weathered vehicles.