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I have one and started to build it up to full detail, can't seem to find pictures of it right now. I'll snap some when I get home this evening.

Most certainly not.

That's my dad's name...

From what research I've done, engines of this era were painted GM Corporate Blue.

After combing through brochures for '61-'66 F-series, I can now see that the separate-bed trucks used the same bed from '57-'63. Brochures for the F-series for '64 proclaim a new body with single-hand tailgate latch.

Another fabulous looking kit from my favourite style of F-series pickup... From my understanding of this style of truck, the bed as depicted was available from start of production in '61 with the unibody; the '57-'60 bed was used for 4x4 applications. Unibodies were only from '61-'63, the bed above was '61-'66 and I think the '57-'60 bed was eventually phased out on 4x4s. The bed I like the most, however, is the one used in Argentina-produced trucks. They only had short beds and it used the same panels as the unibody, only it was a separate bed.

For 1953-1979 the bed is essentially the same, with some actually rather important differences that probably won't show up in scale. Once into the '73 restyle, the bed started getting a little bit taller and a little bit wider. For instance, a tailgate from a 73+ bed won't fit on, say, a 56 bed. I believe that for the 1980 restyle, the rails were flattened and the fenders changed (finally). This bed was used from 80-87 (87 had one-year-only fenders). Stepside beds were dropped from 88-91, reappeared again for 92-09 and now here we are without them again...

Oops, my bad. Either way, a rat rod has an icky GM motor.

If you want to play semantics, my definition of a 'rat rod' would be one with a 'rat motor', your typical small block Chevy. Since this most definitely doesn't run a SBC, it can't be a rat rod, now can it?

^You are correct; TTB was new for 1980. I'm not entirely sure, however, when they switched from leaf springs to coil springs for the solid front axle.

Looks to be the Monogram GMC pickup with a Chevy grille. Cool beans.

To myself and my club, when we're judging our show it depends more on how the final product than what went into it. Contestant A built a stock kit and made it beautiful while Contestant B used resin parts, photo-etch, 3D printed parts, etc etc but the final product looks crappy. It doesn't matter that Contestant B spent all the extra time and money to utilize all those extra bits if the end results is poor.

I cut up a 61 F-100 that had wrecked rear wheel wells and the cab fits perfectly on both an AM 1:25 92-96 F-150 frame and a Lindberg 97-03 F-150 frame. The tail light section will need work to fit the bumpside box anyways, so as long as its close I'm good to go.

I hope these are in the same scale as the AMT 61-63 F-100s. I want to use the pieces I have left over to replicate this bed that as sold in Argentina:

That depends. A geotechnical engineer can be an engineer with a civil engineering background or a geological engineer, which has a combination of civil engineering and geology background. I'm more specialized in the geotech field than a colleague that took just civil engineering. Also, I can register as a professional engineer AND a professional geologist.

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with the Western-type plows so I can't help you there. My efforts with this kit will be concentrated on converting it to a Fisher-type plow.

I believe the van kits in question are 1:25 scale, so the axle might be a bit too small for these trucks.

Revell posted a video on their Facebook page: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64816

I am a geological engineer-in-training. I mostly work with dirt.

Another funny quirk about this kit is that has dual tanks. The front tank is incorrect for a Bronco.

I head to Bangor on a fairly regular basis and I can tell you that there are unfortunately no hobby shops left. If you look in the Yellow Pages you will find listings for a couple but I've found the addresses listed and they've long since closed. I just headed down to Boston for my honeymoon back in August and the hobby shops along the way start in Portland. If you head as far south as Boston I can recommend a couple shops to check out. If you or your wife do end up in Portland, definitely check out Ray & Robin's Hobby Centre. They're in the same area as the mall but be careful, they close at either 5 or 5:30.

I am both glad and saddened that I won't be here in Thompson, MB for the winter as there's a world-class winter testing centre here. I hear tell that you can see some interesting vehicles up here before they're released for sale.

I keep an inventory of my kits in Excel. So far I only have for columns manufacturer, kit number (easier to track reissues), series (ex. Streetburner), title (## stock car), make, model, and year. I do like your system, my66s55, of keeping track of what condition its in, missing parts, etc. I think an overhaul of my inventory may be in order...

What I want to know is what is hauled in that thing. Not a lot of volume there...

This looks really cool! There's a water delivery company around these parts that still uses a Fleetstar.