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Could be so. Tyrone Malone had Truck Mate as a sponsor and he had chromed lock ring five diamond shaped hole budd wheels on his trucks. But I don't think our friend Ben Wicker would answer, he unfortunately passed away a while ago.

Back in the day when most ran on bias ply inner tube tires the rim sizes was 20 or 22 inches for the wheels, and popular tire sizes were 10.00-20, 11.00-20 for the 20 inch rims and 10.00-22 or 11.00-22 for the 22 inch rims, these rims are two or three piece split ring/lock ring rims where you take off a separate lock ring and outside ring to mount the tire and the rim itself is flat from outside to inside. The more modern era wheels for tubeless tires are 22.5 and 24.5 inches and they are one piece rims with a "ditch" in the middle to mount the tires, today almost all highway trucks has 22.5 inch rims and earlier 24.5 inch rims were popular, but today almost all highway trucks have 22.5 inch rims. Examples of tire sizes are 11.00-22.5, 12.00-22.5, and the same for 24.5, but lately many truck tires comes in metric widths like 385 and so forth. Most of the US truck models available to us from AMT has split ring/lock ring wheels and the White-Freightliner and a few others like the Autocar, the Diamond REO and White Road Boss has 22 inch rims and the others like the Kenworth W925-K123, the Peterbilt 359-352, the GMC General and Chevy Bison, the GMC Astro and Chevy Titan 90 and the trailers has the smaller 20 inch rims, one exception was the Kenworth K100 Aerodyne wich have a kind of tubeless wheel but the rears has no ditch in the middle and it has the 11.00-22 inch tires. The Ertl truck and trailer kits had a slightly larger outside diameter tire than the AMT kits, their 11.00-20 had a larger outside diameter and was also slightly wider, these tires also found it's way into some AMT truck kits after the AMT/ERTL merge, among them the Kenworth T600A and a few others.

This is the only good photo I have of the car, it's a larger version of one of yours. But the lace pattern on the car is most likely painted on and the scripts hand letterd, there were no vinyl wraps back in the day.

The kit is too heavy spec'd for a C600, and the badge on the cab door says C800, at least on the kit's I have so I belive it whould be closer to a C800 or C900.

A website isn't better that what's put into it, if the information is wrong you get wrong answers. Many timelines on Scalemates has lots to be desired as many are wrong and kits "related" to one another, with that I mean based on the same tooling, aren't on there correctly. I have noticed this in many occations and it makes searches harder, and if the information is wrong it's wrong. Try to do a search on the "modern era" Monogram and Revell Funny Car kits wich first came in the mid 80's, all of them should be on the same timeline as they are based on the same basic tooling but with different bodys, on Scalemates the kits are grouped on a timeline after what body they have and not in the same timeline wich in my opinion they should be as it's mostly the body and related parts that's different, the engine and chassis are basically the same with a few updates. I also noticed on the Revell Germany Kenworth W900 full detail kits wich were on different timelines because a misspint on the boxes but they should be on the same one, some kits are labeled as 1:24th scale and some are labeled 1:25th scale...all of them are 1:25th scale regardless of what the box says and they are even slightly underscaled in some places, to be honest, they are in fact based on the 1:16 Monogram Kenworth W900 kit as they are downscaled from that one, I belive this is changed now after I pointed it out. But...in many cases it's good information on Scalemates, not reliable all the time but it's mostly right, so it could use some improvements.

No I have not done that, sorry.

I see you wonder about wheel/tire size and the kit supplied wheels are the smaller diameter 10.00-20 rims and tube style bias-ply tires but lots of trucks back in the day had larger fiameter 10.00-22 or 11.00-22 rims for tube tires and these rims have the split/lock rings, and they fill out the fenders well. I see you have rims for tubeless tires on the drive axles but plan to use the tubeless style lock ring wheels on the front axle, tubeless front wheels looks quite different from the tubeless style rims as they are less curved...that will mean the wheel center is flatter, and it's easy to spot tube style lock ring rims at the rear as the rim part itself where the tire sits from the outside to the inside is flat and the tubeless one piece rims has a "dich" in the middle. You don't have to adjust the ride hight if you use larger diameter wheels because they did not do that, if you want to of course you can, but it's not necessary for the "right" look. There are a few AMT kits who have 22 inch rims, the White Freightliner is one, the Autocar kits, White Western Star and the Diamond REO, most of the rest has 20 inch rims. If we go to more modern rims for tubeless tires are the one piece 22.5 and 24.5 inches and lots of older trucks had 24.5 inch rims but almost all trucks today has 22.5 inch rims. The tubeless tires for 22.5 inch rims and the old tube tires for 20 inch rims are close in outside diameter for standard profile and the same goes for the 22 inch and the 24.5 inch. I also think the kit included 10.00-20 wheels in this kit and many others looks too small, especially with the small diameter AMT 10.00-20 tires, the MPC/ERTL 11.00-20 tires looks better, but as 22 inch rims were very popular back in the day I want to use them on my builds. Here is a comparison for front wheels. First the tube style lock ring wheel. And the tubeless style one piece wheel.

It came out nice Ken.

Very nice.

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.

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.

Looks good. You know they were using two different complete rigs for the movie, one 1973 and one 1974 with Hobbs trailers and they are slightly different, but both had gold hood pull emblems with black stripes, rings and KW letters.

Very nice.

Yes he does, both "Crystal" and "Trisha" K100's has this paint scheme, different colors tho'. But I like the International Transport paint colors, and if we are into Youtube Ol2Stroker has a nice one on his Peterbilt 359 called "Mossy Broke", I like that one. I think you allready know this Ken, but both the AMT and Revell K100C Aerodyne kits has wrong dash boards, they are regular K100 flat top dash boards. The K100C Aerodyne got a different dash board back when the Aerodyne cab was introduced in 1976 with the VIT 200 Bicentennial Edition trucks, that dash was in all K100C Aerodynes and was in all K100E's when that model came. Here is how the K100 Aerodyne dash should look, and Texas3dCustoms has a 3D printed version I helped to develop.

I don't think anyone does M/T Hemi heads for Pontiac in any scale, or Ford for that matter, I have not seen any. If one wants to do a M/T Pontiac or Ford Hemi you have to do 3D prints or modify 392 Hemi heads to fit.