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Moving it over to the under glass. Brought it up to the office for display.  It's safer here than home around a 4yr old or the cats. This is probably my favorite setup I've built. Started life as the alaskan hauler. Molotow chrome for all the shiny stuff. I have the passenger tank relocated under the sleeper with the passenger side step box put in its rightful place. I used tall rubber just because it looks alittle more accurate and looks nicer i think. Decals were printed myself. Trailer is pretty much by the book except the decals. Thanks for Looking! 

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Thanks guys! Usually I build based off trucks Ive seen over the years. Decided to use a different subject and something cool and classic. I'm happy with it since I haven't been building much in a few years. Something to kick out the cobwebs

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Nice.
It looks like you did the 1974 truck based on how the air cleaners look, the 1973 truck also used in the movie had chrome top and bottom, there are more differences between them also but...
And for the rubber, the movie trucks had 22 inch wheels, not 20 wich are in the kits, so more rubber looks better.
But you need to paint the KW hood pull emblem, they were gold with black KW letters, rings and stripes on both movie trucks.

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On 2/1/2025 at 7:20 AM, Force said:

Nice.
It looks like you did the 1974 truck based on how the air cleaners look, the 1973 truck also used in the movie had chrome top and bottom, there are more differences between them also but...
And for the rubber, the movie trucks had 22 inch wheels, not 20 wich are in the kits, so more rubber looks better.
But you need to paint the KW hood pull emblem, they were gold with black KW letters, rings and stripes on both movie trucks.

Hey thabks! That's something I didn't even realize that I never got to the kw bug on the hood. I'll have to fix that.

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Thanks everybody for the words. It feels really good to build and get back on here. I have been looking and seeing all of the awesome stuff built and it just makes me wanna build more. I wish I had more room at home or a bigger office! 

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On 2/3/2025 at 3:01 PM, freightshaker2 said:

Hey thabks! That's something I didn't even realize that I never got to the kw bug on the hood. I'll have to fix that.

Well I have researched the Smokey And The Bandit for quite some time as it's on my build list, and I can see directly wich of the two trucks they used in the movie for the scene.
They are similar but very different if you go into details.

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8 hours ago, angelo7 said:

Looks great.  Do you plan to do the Black Trans Am too?

I will do that eventually. it took me a long time to set the time aside to get this one finished.  coming up in the WIP section I will post some pictures of another project I have been working on. just trying to find the time and the drive to keep going on them.  some days adulthood just doesn't let me.

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