JTalmage

Roadkill Charger "General Mayhem" update! So I've been staying near work this week to watch my sisters place, and I'm closer to my friends house where I do my building, so I stopped by this evening and messed around with the Charger for a few hours. First I made a few body dents and damage to mimic the real thing Then I removed the cozywings and all the trim around the windows/doors except a spot in the back. You can see in that picture I also cut the door handle holes out. Then I waited for my hand to stop cramping and decided to paint the engine black If you notice, the engine has a 727 torqueflite trans behind it. I robbed it from my Mr. Norm's '68 Dart when it fell apart. And the valve covers are from the revell '70 Challenger T/A because they are taller in the middle and look more like the valve covers on the 440 that Finnegan and Freiburger pull from the motorhome. I also did the little dent in the front fender. Don't mind the putty.... my dremel went a little crazy when drilling the holes for where the '68 marker lights *should* be. Next, I decided to tackle the most iconic part of the General Mayhem.... The grille! I gotta find just the right kind of lights to put behind it now! In addition I also found the rear taillights and taillight buckets finally, along with an automatic pedal setup from the same Dart, and electric fan from the old revell 32 ford.

Done it a few times too back when I built more cars and built them faster than I do now. I'd have a can of gloss not acting right (cheap dollar store paint) and so I'd hit it with flat, then a gloss clear, worked like a charm. Did a '70 Chevelle that way when I was a teenager...

I've had a Hot Rod Magazine subscription since '96. So for me that is 18 years. I'm 27 now. I read sooo many of those issues over and over and over. I have always loved Hot Rod. Some may hate it, but with a magazine that focuses on cars, you have to flow with the trends. Van craze died out, Prostreet died out, patina comes and goes. They do a good job in my opinion of catering to everyone. It may take an issue or 3 to get to what you like, but, the 2 issues before are about something different that someone else may have been wanting to see. Plus, Roadkill rules.

I said the same thing as soon as I saw it!

Yep I fought the airride for a while, changed front bags/shocks to some low mileage ones off a '97, still acted up... So I said forget it and switched over to coil spring suspension, Bilstein shocks from a Cobra in the back, now it rides nice. Also swapping a thunderbird SC rear sway bar in so it doesnt feel soo floaty. Need to tighten the front up now.

I'd hope not! I paid the bill this month! lol I have to go over soon and get some parts out of it to sell, I'll have to snap a current picture

I would love to have this when it comes out. Might get 2 one to build out of the box stock, the other to make an offroad trail truck!

Fast and smooth indeed! Well, atleast if yours were taken care of. Mine was severely neglected, and had many issues. But I'm slowly correcting and fixing them all. I'm to the point now where the issues are pretty well taken care of, and now I am modifying it! Cobra exhaust manifolds, EGR delete, an oil pan that doesnt rust, 3500 stall converter, deep finned trans pan, standalone transmission cooler, 4.10 gears and trak loc diff, sequential taillights, cold air intake w/ box (made by me), underdrive pullies, doing a coil over plug conversion on it using the 2nd gen mark viii coil wiring, coils, and cam covers. true dual exhaust, mandrel bent from manifolds to muffler tips. Double X-pipes, and Magnaflow 3" mufflers. Should be a pretty healthy Mark Viii for what it is. hopefully completing it this spring, and going to get it tuned.

I dig it! very unusual and I like it! Now THAT is a hot rod lincoln!

Well, I'm not officially putting my hat in the ring yet, but I did pick up a neat concept car that I've not seen before. Wont reveal what it is til I can get some of my other projects and CBP cars done first and then join this one. It is a Ford though.

I love it! I love that movie! Does need some more weathering and dust I think though. but thats fantastic

Looks great! I picked up the orange sparkle version of that by chance a while back

Looking good! I built a '93 Cobra a few years back and had the correct teal mixed up at a paint shop and sprayed it with my paint guns.

Yep! Very much so!

Perfect color on the blue.... I feel it needs some white metallic or silver metallic on it as a 2 tone on top or something. To like accent the top fin piece and the topside of the car.

Bought some CA glue yesterday to try and hold my injector stacks to my resin lower intake.... they wouldn't hold at all. I got mad and took that intake off and will be putting my dual tunnel ram intake on.

Got my photo-etched grille, MSD box, and B&M rachet shifter in the mail today for the Roadkill Charger.

Well I found a bunch of parts from a few Chargers that I forgot I had, so some of my issues are solved. Also got in my metal grille, B&M rachet shifter, and MSD box for this build.

Scored this the other day. Pretty happy about it for $12.

I've built model cars for many years, but they were always out of the box, or at best kit-bashed, but I've never done any serious custom work... and I want to after seeing all of the wonderful creations on here it makes me want to push myself to go to the next level.

My first car, had it since I was 15, and I still own it (although it needs restored pretty badly now) 1977 Ford Mustang II (dont hate!) You can actually see the front header panel is primer (I hit a deer in it ) This next car is my snowball. I call it Frankenstein. Because it will be made of MANY different mustangs. It started out life as an '88 Mustang LX 4cyl 5spd. Will be a 302/5spd when done, with full drag suspension. Here's some of the parts for it... There's double the stuff in this storage unit now.. I have a problem. lol My '93 Lincoln Mark VIII Then this happened from a deer now it's back to this again after lots of work, and scouring junkyards. It's currently getting a lot of work right now (go fast parts!) My '94 Mustang GT, with like 243,000 miles About the time I first got it My daily driver is a black 2004 Ford Ranger FX4 Level II, extended cab... but I dont seem to have any pictures of it at the moment.

Looks like an LTD front grille on it

All in all it sounds like I need to pick up some tools soon. And I thought I was a good model builder before.. sheesh!

What is CA?