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Looking good, Steve!

Actually, that car appears to have an Ontario license plate.

The design of the engine in this kit makes it difficult to add the distributor due to the lack of timing belt cover.

I can see BC ports getting a whole lot busier...

The wheels can indeed be drilled out. I even did a spare:

Well, one half of my pair is done. The Roadrunner still languishes in the bath. I took a shot of the finished interior before I trapped it in: Finished shots: Now on to the Roadrunner!

You're turning into an old man, Steve! Weather permitting I hope to go to the meeting on Tuesday. Hope to see you there!

In addition to the Dutch license plate. there's also a California plate, plus another one that I can't quite make out. But there's a flag in the background that says "OPEN" on it, so I'm thinking it is in an English speaking country?

All in the PACCAR Family...

I only ever use the full version if the forum on my phone, but I have been trying to post/edit on my laptop.

Around these parts I usually see these on trucks hauling wood chips. Same trucks usually have extra lights, too, due to driving on unlit logging roads.

I was able to edit the initial post with the in-line editor but when I tried to use the full editor it kicked me back out to the forum index and didn't save the changes.

Looks pretty darn good, George! Is the cab completely scratch built or did you modify one?

Are you able to edit it and have it stick, Casey? Or any of the other mods?

Further to the issue I was having before, I can't edit the title of the thread to include updates. The thread in question is here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=98130 I haven't attempted to start any threads since that one.

From what I've been able to find, all 2G Hemis installed in street cars were painted Hemi orange, along with the 440+6. The regular 440 and smaller engines were turquoise. Early Hemis were painted different colours depending on what vehicle they were installed in.

I got a little deflated when painting these a few days ago as the Road Runner's paint did not turn out at all and it is this enjoying a pleasant Super Clean bath. But that's okay; it is going to be painted black anyway so it is easy to visualize. The GTX, on the other hand, is turning out rather well. I was waiting for the paint to set up good and hard so I can start foiling. Have started painting the interior in the mean time. I have also painted both the engines for this cars. At this point, the Mo'fans with the weak stomachs may want to hit 'Back' and stay out of this thread. I've always wanted to see what a Hemi would look like done up in Chrysler turquoise, so here it is! I can see I need to touch up the valve covers a bit. The camera hides nothing!

I've heard there's another whack of snow coming this weekend/Monday. Whereabouts in Maine are you, Miles?

Still blowing/falling here.

Small update. Detailed/painted the wheels; GTX on top, Road Runner on bottom. I have also separated the exhaust from the rear axle for the Road Runner.

Looking good so far, Tom! I really like what you did with the front seat. I only had two seats to use for mine, thus I was unable to build the correct split seat.

No, I was posting in the cars section.

Hey Mike. if you're looking to build a Road Runner as I am, you will need the original issue Satellite kit as it has no body emblems and a plain grille. The later issue GTX has the emblems on the body and grille. Hey Steve, I have a couple Chevelles in my stash so I checked the wheels as you suggested. They have the SS emblems in the centre caps and are too small to fit in the tires I'm using...guess I'll have to stick with the ones I have!

It has been a long time since I've tinkered with a car (have been building pickups lately) and certainly a while since I've posted a WIP, but I appear to be on a roll this year so here we go. I'm building a pair of '71 Plymouths: a GTX and a Road Runner. Base kits are the Revell/Monogram '71 GTX and the Monogram '71 Satellite. The GTX gets the hood from the Satellite, along with a set of Magnum 500s from the Monogram '70 GTX. The Road Runner gets the Air Grabber hood from the GTX, along with a set of Torq Thrusts from the Monogram '57 Bel Air. The GTX is getting a Hemi from the Monogram '71 Barracuda convertible (air cleaner is from the '70 GTX). And the Road Runner is getting the 440+6 from the GTX. I have on order a set of decals from Firebird Designs that will give me a set of red strobe stripes for the Road Runner as well as the appropriate fender engine decals for both cars and the insert decals for the GTX's hood.

So I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but I seem to be unable to post new threads at the moment. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on my laptop as Chrome was quite the resource hog and running really slow. At first I thought maybe it was just an issue with Firefox, but the same thing happened in Chrome when I tried again. I was trying to post a new WIP thread in the car section, and when I hit the "Post New Topic' button, the little green progress bar did not appear at the top of the window and I got kicked back to the forum index rather than the topic list for the car On The Workbench section. I am running Firefox and Chrome current versions on Windows 8.1. EDIT: I was able to get the thread started on my phone and paste in everything else (phone is running Android KitKat and Chrome).