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Here are some examples of earlier Pacifics that could be modeled from this cab, if you are willing to either scratchbuild or do files to 3d print different fenders and front ends. Most of these you would not be using the planetary axles, a good donor kit for running gear would be the AMT Autocar dump, as it has an older Cummins with the correct intake manifold to build a non-turbo engine, and a heavy spec rear suspension with Timpkin toploader axles. These axles were the basic 'go-to" on on-off road logging trucks here in BC in the 1960s/70s, in fact we have several trucks here on the farm with these axles, one a 1965 Kenworth LW923 with similar suspension to the Autocar kit, we also have a seventies International with the same Timpkin toploader axles and a rubber block walking beam, either of these set-ups would be prototypical for…

Just thought i would mention, not sure if everyone is aware of this, there were three distinct cab generations used by Pacific. The cab depicted by the kit is the first generation, which is excellent, as it is by far the longest lived, which means that a modeler can build a lot of different pacific variations by printing out the cab, then mating it with lighter duty scratchbuilt frame rails, and running gear from other kits. This basic cab ran from the earliest Pacifics in the 1950's up through the seventies, when Pacific was bought by International. Starting in the mid-seventies, Pacific started using International cabs on some of their trucks, but the "Pacific" cab depicted in the kit was also used side by side with the International cab trucks, the Pacific cab was generally used through this time on the "heavier" models, like the p12-p16's. International sold pacific i…