Fat Brian

It would also depend on it the truck was fully assmbled in the factory or was purchased as a glider and finished by an outside upfitter. Basically, you can paint it almost any color and justify it being that way.

Due to MPC being out of business for almost 30 years, no, they never made a kit with modern tooling methods. But, they did make some good kits that stand up well today, the 69 Olds Casey mentioned being among them. It has a multi piece suspension front and rear with separate exhaust so it's close to newer kits. Their heavy truck kits like the DM600 and DM800 are noticeably crisper than their AMT counterparts as well. It's best to try to find a parts breakdown to see if it's something you would be interested in.

The Detail Junkies engine linked to is the engine that is the Welderup show car, it's a 5.9 Cummins 12 valve from a Dodge 3500 truck. I also scratch built a Detroit 4-53, I built the block and oil pan and borrowed the gear covers from an 8v-71 from a semi kit.

D but I would like it better in another color or with some pin stripes or scallops or something.

I don't care for A, B, or C completely. None of them stay consistent to their design theme, I don't like modern components on rat rods. I like the chop and drilled visor on B but the car is a bit too grungy for me but has chrome engine pieces. Give me C chopped like B with C's vintage engine and find some more period looking wheels and tires.

Check out this gallery of pics of a Ford Focus that was towed behind a motorhome while the transmission was in 1st gear. http://imgur.com/a/KxSI9

The box art has one picture of the built kit with the top, whether it's in the box or not I'm not sure.

Go over to the forums at Big Mack Trucks, those guys will know for sure what should be in it.

You can get the Monogram Grand National for a stock G body chassis and Buick interior. It has the turbo V6 but 1/24 V8s aren't hard to come by.

Mike, I thought the same thing about the store at University. It was huge and did all the gaming stuff and rc stuff but they closed about two years ago. I don't know why Charlotte can't keep a hobby store in business, it doesn't make any sense.

According to Wikipedia the Cummins NTC-335 was standard equipment in the B73, maybe a newer transmission was swapped in at one point.

I noticed that too Mike and I meant to message you about it. I stopped there a lot and spent more than I want my wife to know about. I had talked to David at one point and he said he made most of his money off of rc stuff so I thought they were going to be around for a while. For me it's going to be the Hobbytown in Mooresville, Rock Hill is too far out of the way.

There are a few on there now for closer to $40 and promos are even cheaper.

A friend of mine at work had an early 2000s Dakota sport with a 4.7 at it would get down the road pretty good, it was almost as fast as an S-10 Extreme another guy had.

The STS website has them listed for $65, that's as cheap as I've found them.

I just didn't know, I thought I missed something.

If I see something interesting here or in other searching I bookmark the page and then change the name of the bookmark to what is relevant about it and then move it into a folder I created for model car stuff. This works great until your computer dies.

I've stopped to help a few times when it's obvious an accident actually happened but I won't for a random stopped car, you just never know anymore if you're going to get robbed or shot for trying to assist someone.

I'm not sure exactly, I just made it match the 72 bed.

Sorry about that, I thought the 4.7 replaced the 5.2 at one point.

That's the one I was talking about, I didn't know that it was included with the mixer parts or even in the Paystar kit. I had bought an old DM800 mixer buildup and just knew it had a different rear than the tractor kit.

Here is a picture of the bed side I made compared to the 72 Chevy longbed. I think I needed to make the front about an 1/8 of inch longer but it's close, the rear will get about that much longer when the taillight panel is added.

The drive for super detiling slows me down too, what I've done is kind of prioritize what I want to build. Some subjects I really like will be super detailed and others will be quicker to help maintain momentum. My biggest struggle is that once my idea kind of begins to take shape and I can kind if see it the drive to finish kind of goes away.

Chevy long beds are 8 feet long, they add one foot in between the cab and rear wheels and six inches after the rear wheels. I made one with one of the fleetside beds, I'll try to get pictures when I get home.

I have the Model King issue and I think it has the camelback rear suspension, I'll have to check when I get home. The mixer version has basically a solid rear end with walking beams.