Fat Brian

This is really cool and makes me want to work on my 34 rat wrecker. One thing though, your valve covers are on backwards, the angled part goes in the back.

Theres been a new record for the Cannonball set recently, 27 hours and 25 minutes. That's the first average speed over 100mph.

These are for the 1/25 AMT kits, they'll be very small on the Monogram kit. Terry's in instructions are correct though and will net you a long bed.

I had a similar experience earlier this year. My wife talked me into emailing the builder of the Mustang I took inspiration from for my CBR build last year. He thought the build was great and even posted my pics on his Instagram page.

I'm on board for TV and movie vehicles, I'm just going to post my other idea here to see if it gets any traction. The other suggestion was the 2904, the car and all mods must be less than $2,904.

Yep, that's it. The Revell chassis is a touch too long for the older fastback bodies but nothing a little chop chop can't fix.

I'm not married to one way or the other, probably best to let folks vote about it. We should probably start a 2020 theme thread so more people can see the discussion is starting.

I was actually going to say the opposite about limiting entries to one of a certain subject. Sometimes people don't enter or don't finish because they can't build the car that really inspires them. Even if five people say they want to build a General Lee in the beginning the likelyhood that even one will get finished is pretty small so just let people build whatever and the voting will sort it out in the end. But I will yield to the majority, naturally.

Yeah, we could tweak the rules for TV and movie cars to allow performance mods as long as they aren't obvious. This way you could do a Beverly Hillbillies truck with a turbo 2jz if it fits under the stock hood.

I've been sitting on the idea of TV and movie cars as a potential theme for the 2020 CBR for a few months myself, I was just waiting on the suggestion thread to be posted. There are a wealth of kits that could be used and almost all kinds of builds would be represented from cars and trucks to big rigs so hopefully participation would be high. I got the idea from watching a video about guys who did the real rally in an LS swapped Dodge Monaco police car dressed like the Blues Brothers. My other theme suggestion is the "2904". The traditional route of the Cannonball is 2,904 miles long. In this race your car and all of your equipment and modifications must be less than $2904. Again, this is a real variation on the race that has been run a few times. It keeps guys from buying a new Ferrari just to compete and also limits your financial loss if your car gets permanently impounded. The current single driver record holder did the race in a 95 or 96 SC400.

I've noticed that problem with a lot of Revell kits, I don't know why they cant get that area right.

I scratch built this one. The ribbed portion is from a Plastruct sheet with Evergreen strip around it. The other bits are more Evergreen and the chains are from the Hobby Lobby jewelry section. It's meant to look home built and doesn't represent any specific style or brand. This one is pretty much the same, the handles are from the Revell snap Peterbilt kit.

That looks very good, Dave. I bought a stock grille, rear bumper, and hood from a resin company and I'm going to take the back half of the Bobby Isaac cars roof and the top of the rear quarters and trunk area and transplant them onto the Revell kit along with some of the area around the grille.

Ok, how I noticed the difference was I wanted to build a better detailed stock 72 so I tried to swap the Bobby Isaac stock car body onto the Revell chassis. When comparing the two kits it's like putting a 1/24th kit next to a 1/25th kit, I haven't run the numbers to see which one is correct.

I've noticed that too with the AMT body, I dont know if the Johan body is different.

If you want to build it stock the Revell Starsky and Hutch Torino car will give you some good stock pieces.

Nothing beats actual firsthand info, thanks KJ. It's odd though the 6-71 wasn't even listed as an available engine option.

Based on the link Jim posted you've got two easy engine options, the 8v-71 Brian mentioned or a Cummins NHC-250. The 8v-71 was most recently available in the California Hauler kit and the Cummins is in the Freightliner cabover kits. I'm sure you could trade for either one pretty easily.

The Louisville kit will have the right wheels. Do you know what engine the hauler had? The Louisville has a Caterpillar diesel engine that was used in lots of brands of trucks while the C600 has a Ford gasoline engine.

This is an issue for me. I still have unfinished builds from my teens and early twenties, probably a third of my kits overall at least. I had severe kit ADD back then and just jumped from one build to another constantly. Now that I'm older and my skills are improved I have trouble going back and working on these kits when the quality isn't up to my current work. So they get used as donors and if the concept is sound I'll start again with a new kit.

I can't remember if the tunnel ram intake is on that parts tree or a separate one.

If this kits ends up getting the parts for the overhead cam Hemi there are better carbs on that parts tree.

I attached the front and rear before I put the chassis in on mine, I think I might have had to shorten the front of the frame just a touch but you dont notice it once its together.

Great info everyone and it matches my recollection of the car. It didn't, and still doesn't, have a/c so the orange engine is correct. By the time I was around the car in the late 80's it had been through 16 owners so it wasn't 100% stock anymore. One of them added the big oval air cleaner from the 440 model but I dont know if the under hood duct work was there.

I want to replicate a neighbor's car from my childhood, probably THE car that got me into cars in the first place. Also, what color should it be? I'd swear it was orange but I was pretty young at the time.