Fat Brian

Yes it is, there is a build thread for some of his parts on Hank's truck forum. He makes some awesome stuff that appears to be worth every penny.

I picked up a Boyd Smoothster with a late model 350 with a nice multiport fuel injection top, it looks good since it came from a clean modern custom. I'm thinking about rescribing the door lines to make a pseudo hardtop and removing the B pillar completely. I'm probably going to leave the wheel openings alone to show off the wheels when I pick them out. Here is a pic of the engine, it's plain but will get the job done.

Buying lots or junkyards on ebay is always a gamble, I've won and lost when buying them. Sometimes the pics or description is misleading and if in doubt it's always better to ask before bidding. I bought a built DM800 that was fairly clean in the pics and unpainted but when I got it it had the hood and fenders glued down and is largely unusable, it looked decent in the pics but you never know until it shows up.

Just putty and sanding. When I do another one I am planning on just sanding off the moled in rivets and replacing them with the new decal rivets.

There is a great resin caster from eastern Europe that has begun selling stuff on ebay under the name danmodels, he makes a fifties supercharged Cummins motor that looks unbelieveable but it is a bit spendy. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cummins-NHS-600-Supercharger-engine-1-25-scale-resin-kit-/221146227573?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item337d57a375

If you can get super lucky and find a set of American Satco Super Swampers they are about 35s in 1/24 scale. You could get a set by getting one of the Aoshima 4x4 Toyotas and still have a decent kit to build.

I was hoping for the 68, with a 2 door I could replicate my dads first car.

They already did a T600, all they have to do is make a W900L hood and add it in. I don't see what the hold up is.

The frames in the both snap kits are not the greatest out there but still look good when built and can be the start of a good custom with an enclosed frame.

That W900 mold is getting in rough shape, I bought one of the current kits with the flat top sleeper and it's very flashy and the alignment is poor on a lot of the cab parts. It is in need of some refeshing before they completely ruin it.

Is there a 2 door version planned?

About the only markings you need is a white star on the doors. The thing is, the C600 was not used in the military. They are about the only organization on earth who didn't use them but the military had other vehicles to fill it's role. Most transport vehicles used during the period the kit represents were diesel also, usually using the Continental 468 multifuel motor that could run on various low grade fuels.

What about the wheels from the Moving Violation Willys and the Austin Gasser, those look similar.

The 66 Mustang that is out now used to have a nice set of those Shelby style wheels in it, I haven't seen that latest issue to see if it still does.

I finally got my drivetrain donor in the mail so I really need to get back on this.

When we can get parts this good in 1/25 scale it will be profitable for someone skilled in CAD to buy one of these machines and print aftermarket parts. When you look at a resin casting business look at how much money and time is tied up in making masters and then making molds. Making a quality mold is an art and you can waste a lot of mold material and resin getting one right an then it wears out and every casting becomes of poorer and poorer quality until it's unusable. I believe that I read here that a good body mold will make about fifty bodies before it has to be retired, no wonder resin parts cost so much. You have a very finite amount of copies to make back your huge time and materieal outlay. A person with this machine could make a model one time and print an infinite amount of copies without diminishing quality over time. The cost of parts made this way could be substantially cheaper than resin, there is almost no investment in the part other than design time and parts only have to be printed when they are bought and paid for.

Yeah, I don't understand this huge push for a 70 Charger, if there was a big market for one Revell would have already done it. I would much rather see a first gen AMX, a good 68 Shelby GT500, a first gen Bronco, a 68 Cutlass, a 67-69 Barracuda, and about a dozen others.

P&P offers resin parts to update the kit to a 2006 and newer model. http://www.ppvintagekits.com/CARS/Resin-Price_list.html

There is a Revell car hauler on ebay right now for $118 with free shipping, watch out for the seller though she is a pain in the butt for sure.

Keep in mind that for a street freak you aren't constrained by NHRA rules, I don't think any of the cars pictured would be legal even in a gasser class because the front ends are too high. The NHRA rulebook limited cars to a height of 24 inches at the centerline of the crankshaft but for a street car get the nose high and rear down and go crazy.

I had that kit saved in watch list but got a Model King DM800 reissue and another AMT K-100 instead, I got pretty good deals on both so I will have to catch the FLD another time.

Here is the thread from the truck section, this will tell you everything we know and will be the best place to find updates. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64836

The biggest complaint is that the truck on the box is not what is in the box. The box shows a 379 long hood but you get the 378 regular short hood. That being said, it is a nice kit and would accurately replicate an owner/operator rig like the ones on IRT. The 378 can be used for moderatly heavy haul without too many mods to the kit, I see many in my area being used to move offroad equipment or oversize loads. The part that seems to intimidate most builders is the multi piece cab, mine went together well and was really a non issue. One tip is to use the cab floor as a guide to keep the sides straight. It really does fit together pretty well without too much drama.

There isn't a date yet, it was just announced a month or so ago. There may not even be a complete mold yet, we weren't given many specifics.

My company has a fleet of vehicles and in the US the government mandates that if your fleet is over a certain size that a percentage of your vehicles have to use an alternative fuel. Some of the vehicles my company bought were late ninties/early 2000's dual fuel Cavaliers that ran on gasoline and natural gas. The GM natural gas set up was really awful at the time and after a while the regulator would begin leaking gas into the intake and overnight the intake and air filter box would fill up with gas. Every morning when the drivers went to start their cars at least one of the thirty or so cars air intake tubing would literally explode. Most times it was just a little burp that would only pop apart the slip joints in the tubes but every once in a while it was a huge boom that blew apart the plastic tubes and air filter box, we even had to replace a few hoods that were pushed up from the inside by the force. Beyond this "feature", these cars were just complete garbage. We normally keep our vehicles until about 100,000 miles but these were costing us so much money to keep them going we started selling them early just to get rid of them.