Kenworth drag truck

was given this one its a Kenworth drag truck going to restore it as its a glue bomb,only thing missing is the engine,will strip it back and repaint it will be doing it over the next few months or next year.

Cool project Allan , do you know if it was released as a drag truck and someone made it with local decals or was it a custom job by someone ?

sports850,its part of the AMT Tyrone Malone drag truck kit,There was a COE Kenworth with ramp that the drag truck sat on,only got the drag truck the other one would of be great too,would like to get the ramp truck and the decals,but don't like my chances at that,still think on what to do with it and colours.

sports850,drag truck sits on the back of this.

just happend to pick one up last week, all i want now is the drag truck

what it does not come with drag truck ,a friend of mine has both in one kit

Nope, just checked, no drag truck

ourcircus will see if I can get photo of the kit,got body off chassis its now in freezer to see if I can get the glass out of it,the grille broke out of it have another one for it,going to paint it up as a phantom drag truck.

cheers Allan, maybe i will make my own drag truck ill see whot parts i can pick up

DeeCee,just asked friend about the kit he has he said the ramp truck comes with out drag truck there is a photo on the side of box showing both together,may have gotten the ramp truck too,now going to see if I can track down the decales for drag truck,have tracked down missing engine for it too.

Allan
If you want photos of the trucks let me know i have both here
If you want a close up of any part let me know
these were 4 separate kits

that's a cool pair close up of engine and rear wing frame please.

no problems i will do them tomorrow after work for you

Thank's for that AJ

Allan
You have an email,be warned it has a lot of pics

Thank's AJ they will be a great help to me,going to see If I can get copy of instrutions from a friend that has the drag truck unbuilt and no he will not sell it me ask every time I see it .In your photo the chassis is dark blue seen a photo showing that its a light blue chassis.

The instructions you request are here ,
http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truckkit_instructions/amt/5003_the_super_boss/

allan wrote: .In your photo the chassis is dark blue seen a photo showing that its a light blue chassis.

Good to see the photos were of some help,as for the chassis colour i dont know why its that colour maybe it was the colour i had at the time(i did build it in the early 80s)

AJ hear is a photo show chassis is light blue.

Oh AJ your second drag truck and transporter you have them as black have found out that they sould be a very dark blue.

here is the drag truck in the dark blue.

found out that the Super Boss was here in aussie in the early 80's to race Waltzing Matilda,also found out the inside of body and chassis was light blue.

Just as a point of interest , the builder of Waltzing Matilda (Terry O'Hare , he also built the Mini-Trac in my profile pic) is trying to find where the truck ended up as he lost track of it after being sold several times . If anyone knows anything please let me know .

The remains of waltz is in tasmania , some landscape mob got it , duno how but they used the cab on one truck and bits on another . They had an article in truckin life couple of months ago about how they got it and parted it out .
It's been along time between drinks but if you can find it truckin life brought out a special magazine with the pictures and write ups on the race trucks doin the rounds of the tracks .

Tyrone Malone had a heap of show/drag trucks and there are a few web sites that are dedicated to his memory. The four kits were Super Boss and Papa Truck and Bandag Bandit and The Hideout Truck. I got in touch with Ken Harris, who drove the Papa Truck in the European tour to ask him about the colour of both the Bandag Bandit and the Hideout Truck, and he said to me that they were black and always were black with red chassis's. There was also Mama Truck which was the transporter for the Show Truck of America. There was a wheel standing K model as well and a pontiac trans am from memory. Tyrone Malone died whilst driving his Cadillac, he was T-boned by a truck. As for Waltzing Matilda, as far as I knor it is still being used to transport honey for a company here in Tassie at Mole Creek. The guy has a fleet of old Fords, all in metallic green, a few Louis, F600, older F350 etc., all in beautiful condition. I heard recently that the panels have been located minus the jet engine and there are plans to restore it, but I'm not sure if it has been sold or it is the honey farmer that is building it. There is an artical floating around with an interview with the owner discussing this restoration.