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Hey- you never know. I’m looking for these parts for my Dodge Fever 1968 Coronet tribute build. These parts are called for in the how-to articles from 1969 (Dodge Daytona body). I believe the seat is from the later dragster. I’m including pics from the May and July 1969 Car Model magazine articles. Glue bomb parts are cool with me. Thank you, Lee

That is a really nice looking car. It looks like it can have different grilles. Also cool. If you decide to sell copies, I’m interested.

Ah. Here it is. https://www.facebook.com/FrankiesShoppe/posts/dean-jefferies-mantaray-positively-the-most-difficult-car-we-have-ever-created-a/983142490500455/

Frankie’s Hobby and Horror Shop on Facebook is working on a Mantaray. It’s not ready yet. I’m on a cell phone in an area with poor reception and could not find the post about this car. https://www.facebook.com/FrankiesShoppe/

I like the Fugazzi F40

Stopping here tonight Edit: one more step

A few more pics

Getting a little work in tonight. I don’t have any kits of dragsters from the late 1960s. I ordered an MPC Ramchargers FED for wheels and tires + front suspension. Maybe some other parts as well. While I’m waiting on that, it’s on to the chassis. Jim Keeler showed how to make a Monocoque chassis. It had a front and back half, made of laminated sheet styrene. It was covered in very thin sheet aluminum printers plate, with rivets punched in from the back. I’ll use a different method; adding styrene rivets one at a time. Here is the front half. I used small drops of super glue to hold the pieces together and scribed them to profile. After filing the laminated pieces as one, they were popped apart by sliding a #11 blade between them. I’ll sand the super glue residue off. I think this way gets them all to a more uniform profile.

So many great quotes from this movie. “Your majesty- the people are revolting.” ”You’re tellin’ me. They stink on ice.”

Mel Brooks is a genius. “Did you BS last week?” ”No” Did you TRY to BS last week?”

That makes sense. Thank you.

Other street vendors are selling horrible things for food, IIRC. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

I will definitely check out their other scribing tools. Thank you.

I got home late tonight. Not much time at the bench. My attempt at bending the roof down by heating the inside with a hot spoon did not work. I cut across it with a razor saw, then made the cut a little wider with a Tamiya scriber. I laid a strip of Evergreen .020” in the groove and secured with Super Glue. This held the downward slant. The filler piece on top of the doors was filed and sanded. I used a Dremel to dig little trenches for putty. Will add that later. The Tamiya scriber arrived in the mail today. My Excel brand hobby knives have been breaking. I realized it’s from putting a lot of pressure on them when scribing thick plastic. This new scriber should do a better job and extend the life of hobby knives and #11 blades.

It was on a model podcast. I have to look it up. It’s pretty cool. It would be coolest thing ever to get one of these as military surplus and add a weatherproof box on the back for an RV that can go anywhere. Maybe add a couple of feet to the back end and a little on the sides. It would be a fun model project. When I was in the Army, I drove an M577; derives from the M113. It belonged to the Battalion level intel shop. Pics of both.