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There is a 1:25 scale version of the car you're after by MPC/AMT, however it hasn't been reissued in a bit so you won't find it on your average hobby shop shelves. I believe the '89 style was only kitted as a GT, so some creative bashing would be required to make an LX. I don't know that there has been an EFI 2.3L kitted, but the earlier MPC versions of that kit tool have a carb 2.3L in them.

That "car" was a contestant at one of the 24 Hours of LeMons races: https://www.24hoursoflemons.com/ Chances are the car was a completely Canadian car, built at the Halifax, NS plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Halifax_Assembly

So the AMT Nova engine is the one to get, not the Trumpeter Nova engine?

Bill, what would be the best engine to use for '73 and up trucks? You've seen my modifications to the AMT '60 C10 engine for a '69 Blazer and I have another one planned for a '76 C10. If the MCW resin engine would be the better starting point I'll get a couple of those.

While I can't attest to the 1969 model years, I do know that on the one truck I have first hand knowledge on (1996 F-150), the darker colour was painted over the whole truck. This particular truck was blue with a silver down the middle of the sides, however the inside of the bed and the rear cab wall were still blue. I believe my dad's old project truck '73 was the same as well. For the trucks that just had the cab roof painted white, I would hazard a guess to say that the white was painted after the whole truck and the main colour would be underneath.

It appears that on 5 February 2016 Heller entered a redressement judiciare, a French legal status that roughly corresponds to receivership.

MPC snap kit hands down. The kit is a '75 with the one-piece roof. Use the Revell snap kit as a template or roof swap to get the '76-'91 style roof. Grille from the Revell kit can also be made to work in the MPC body to make it a '77-'79.

Sorry no updates on this one for a while. Didn't like how the paint turned out on the body so it's been sitting in it's box waiting for me to get around to stripping the paint and trying again. But, in the mean time, here's how the '69 2WD suspension looks on the '78 frame:

Around these parts, the dealerships were always split up Ford-Lincoln, Mercury, Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Pontiac-Buick-GMC, and I think we've only ever had one Mopar dealership selling all brands. There have been a lot of mergers lately, and now we only have one Ford-Lincoln dealer, one GM dealer for all brands, one Mopar dealer for all brands (including Fiat), but separate dealers for Toyota-Scion, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz (+Smart), Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Volkswagen, and Subaru.

I watch a lot of home reno shows on HGTV and they're all based out of Ontario; horizontal panels are quite common there. And to code.

Although he wasn't an active poster here, he was always browsing through the various boards admiring builds and getting ideas for his next project. On the board here he was Kenny Martin; to me, he was dad. He passed away 2 February at the age of 60.

Right now, I see something. Yesterday. I saw something. I have seen things in the past. If you tell me that you seen something, I will throat punch you.

A bigger view of that box art hints to me that the Hardcastle & McCormick wheel and tire combo might be making a comeback.

I built this one around 8 years ago. The slant 6 kinda gets lost in there.

The fairly rare and hard to find Hardcastle & McCormick kit also has the bench seat.

The MPC kits have a separate seat piece from the tub, so swapping a bench for buckets is easy peasy. The Revell kits have the one-piece tub with seat.

The Monogram Ramcharger kit has Dana 60 front and rear; might work on this beastie.

Thanks, Bill!

The Revell 1:25 kits are best ignored... The frame is completely different (and wrong); the MPC parts wont work.

The section of frame that broke wasn't corroded, not sure what caused it. No serious offroading, just regular street driving.

It was actually yesterday, but this happened:

One could if one had both the parts and the ability to cast in resin. I have the former but not the latter.

With the exception of the GMC wrecker, the Revell kits are all '77-'78 model year. The stepside trucks are an aftermarket California Stepside bed, not factory fenders. The GMC wrecker kits are actually a '79-'80, not a '77 as labelled on the recent reissue.

A little late but to add to the asphalt conversation, speaking from a civil tech/inspector role I would definitely not approve of asphalt being laid down out of the truck like that. Unless it is strictly for patch work. Usually you dump the asphalt in a spreader that mixes and heats it up somewhat. For highway mixes a transfer buggy is used that has an internal hopper so that there are no cold joints in the road, just a steady stream.

I've pinned that truck on Pinterest but haven't seen any other views of it. Not sure what the bed is, probably a custom build as it certainly isn't a Dodge unit. The fenders, maybe.