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Axle trusses are the big giveaway. Plus the winch/skid plate at the front, the 78/79 GMC grille, dual tanks, lack of access panel on the bed, under-window cab trim... but it has the roll bar, bull bar, and wheels from the eventual Fall Guy kit. They must've had a lot of issues getting that kit produced as even the box art truck has the 81-82 Chevy grille.

So I just now realized that in that picture Casey posted on 3 Dec, the kit pictured is actually the Monogram GMC...

Yeah...oops.

Thanks again, Bill! I checked the second one against other BBCs I have and the block is definitely a W-style. Not sure what the heads are. The Mopar also has an intake on it from something way smaller!

The search function ignores numbers and any words shorter than four letters. If it did, and someone searched for "it", "is", "and" etc I'm sure the search function would go haywire.

Okay, another couple engines, this time with two pictures each:

The chassis for the Rick Dobbertin Pontiac J-2000 fits in the MPC Mustang II body; that one is in progress.

Thanks, Bill! I apparently have a lot of Pontiac engines now...

Ooh, my first Mercury engine!

That being said, there is a trial underway with Freightliner Argosy cabovers and 60' trailers by Walmart I think it is... shorter truck, longer trailer.

The Truck Stop Grab a seat and a big cup of coffee. Big rigs, pickups or anything in between... this is the place for general truck talk.

Steve, please tell me you didn't go through all that effort and leave the screw bosses on the firewall...

I will confess, I don't use an airbrush so I can't say anything about that aspect of the paint. I have so far only used Vallejo by brush.

The various Revell 69 Camaro chassis and engines are good replacements for the MPC 1969 Firebird. One could theoretically use the AMT early-style USA-1 to make a monster truck out of any RCLB pickup. The Lindberg Off-road 4x4 F-150 kit is a great source for BFG Mud-Terrain tires and the Mazda M5OD transmission for any 1988-2008 F-150 with a six cylinder or small V8 (5.0/4.6). AMT/Revell 94 Mustang chassis and engine is a good update for MPC/AMT Fox body Mustangs. Polar Lights Torino Talladega stock cars provide a much better chassis/engine/cage for the MPC/AMT 71 Cyclone stock car. The Revell 77 (sic) GMC wrecker provides a great wrecker body (and if you're not too fussy, chassis) for just about any wrecker build.

Okay, I managed to sort through some more engines and take some pictures. I think these are all BOP engines. Probably more like OP, don't think any are Buicks... This one I actually have no clue about:

Niko, I've always wondered what the purpose of those national signs were. Did all European countries have the same license plate designs and needed the national signs to identify what country?

Oh boy! As mentioned, the MPC/AMT 69 Olds 442 chassis is a good donor for the AMT 69 Chevelle. Also good for MPC 70-72 Pontiac GTOs. Another source is the AMT 70 Monte Carlo, with some tweaking (different wheelbase, IIRC). The AMT 60 Ford Starliner is a good donor for just about everything to build a high-detail AMT 61 Galaxie. The AMT 66 Fairlane/66 Comet is a good donor for the AMT 60/61 Ranchero kit, with some tweaking. Revell 65/66 Chevy C10 chassis is a good fit for AMT/MPC 67-62 Chevy/GMC C10 kits. Revell 56 Ford F-100 chassis and engine is good for AMT 60-62 Ford F-100 kits. Lindberg 64 Dodge 330 provides an excellent slant 6 engine for any Mopar from 1959-2000 with appropriate tweaks as well as providing a good chassis for various early '60s Johan Mopar kits. AMT 70 Dodge Superbee/68 Plymouth Road Runner kits, both regular and pro-street are good for other later '60s Mopars. The back half of the pro-street chassis can be used for any number of kits, as well as: Revell 67 Chevelle pro-street; good for building pro-street GM cars (fits pretty good in Lindberg 67 Olds 442 and 67 GTO) That's all I can think of right now; more will come to me!

Now that I know what this is, this engine will find its way into one of my AMT 1962 Bel Air kits. Without shield, of course.

Are we talking pickup trucks or road tractors? In either situation, a longer wheelbase does make it easier to back up with a trailer on.

Most of the time when I visit my LHS it is a combination club meeting/LHS visit/company head office visit. Because I spend the day working out of my regional head office, my employer reimburses my travel expenses!

Have you tried Vallejo? I've been very impressed with it so far.

Aha! That explains things a bit. The Monogram kit has the shield molded in, thus I didn't recognize it.

A while back I purchased a lot of about a hundred or so miscellaneous engines from eBay. Combined with all the random engines and parts I've been collecting over the past 16 years or so I have a lot of engines! In the interest of trying to pin down an identity on some that I don't recognize, I brought the whole shebang to a club meeting last night and had some luck, but some are still elusive (our ID guru wasn't at the meeting...). I may post a bunch of these engines in this thread depending on how successful the process is! First up is this six cylinder. It appears to be 1:25 scale and I think it is GM; it is similar but yet different to the six in the Monogram 53 Vette kit. It also has this curious heat shield that covers the distributor as well as three carburetors. Anyone know what this is and where it came from?

In the end, though, you have to agree that discontinuing a marque simply because the boxes were a funny size is a bit ridiculous. But, if they didn't want to put any time/money into re-sizing the boxes...

Hey, I've been there!