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Tim- I love this build. It’s right there with my tastes as well. The 340 would have been a great engine choice- I owned a slightly modified ‘74 360 ‘Cuda and I can tell you that it didn’t take much to make that car into a beast! Here’s a pic of a car that I shot back in the very early ‘90’s. Your build really reminds me of this car. I found it on the street in Philadelphia that day. I was very excited to see something like this on the street and in decent condition at the time, and I just happened to have a 35mm camera with some film in it in my car (which was a ‘71 Satellite Sebring Plus) that day.

If you're there all day getting yelled at because the pics don't turn out, it's your own fault!

We have a winner! Not my first choice of what I would want, but I still might need to get one.

Reminds me of the time the mail carrier at my old house crammed a package in to my mailbox- they would put them in from a common door at the back, which opened wide. The individual door on my own mailbox didn't open as wide. I had to take a pocket knife out to the mailbox to cut the box up from the inside just to get it and it's contents out. That was fun.

IIRC the Superfly had a full roof like the annual Grand Prix, while the Dream machine had a targa-style cutout roof - the roof was molded that way, it wasn't something the builder cut out. I think also the Super Fly came with side exhausts, while the Dream Machine didn't. If Round 2 has this tool, they could do one run as a "Neoclassical 70's Luxury Custom", with new box cover artwork, etc. That would be a low-effort-maybe-high-reward offering for Round 2. I'd prefer they mold the full roof and include the side pipes like the SuperFly, though.

Man, they ought to bring one or two of those back. Round 2 has the Mongoose License, I wonder if they could do a McEwen English Leather Corvette from one of those? And perhaps a "name" Omni? I wonder what's up with those Omni bodies though. I don't remember the kit bodies looking quite like that...

That is NICE!!!

If you do a flat bed, maybe you can build a load of parts to haul to a Mopar show (hoods, quarter panels, engines, etc.).

Looking GREAT! I snapped this one at the Mopar Nats in 2017:

Here’s when it was at Carlisle in 2016.

Here is my homage to these cars...I couldn’t scratchbuild a 4 door ‘66 Coronet body (I would love to have one, my family had one of those cars when I was little, although not a Hemi!), and I didn’t want to try to modify a ‘67 Plymouth body. I used the next best thing. No ‘68 B body 4 door Hemis were built to my knowledge, but if they were, they might have looked like this...

I know of a white one, a red one, and this one- I saw the gold car for sale at Carlisle in the early 2000's. The Garlits car was supposedly built for the FBI as a test car. One of the others (I think the red one) was special ordered new by a Mr. Floyd Cline, because he wanted a 4 door with dual quads for towing. There was an article in Mopar Action magazine back in the early 90's on both the red and white cars. Their rarity was known even back then. In '66, when the Street Hemi was released, that engine presumably could have been ordered in any B-body body style or trim level. I think I read that there might be a 4-door '66 Plymouth in Europe somewhere.

That's an ambitious project. I like what you did with that Challenger Diamante concept! Call me crazy, but I don't see much Viper in the Charger RT concept. To me, the drop of the front fenders and the shape of the nose look a little more like a Firebird- that drop is what you want to capture, and the Viper nose . Maybe keep the Viper as-is since you didn't cut it up yet, and start looking for an early 2000's Firebird kit? Or perhaps a newer Revell Ferrari California.

Yikes. Maybe draw the paint out of a can, let the metallic settle into a jar, separate and airbrush? I could have sworn I read about a way to do this...

On that Vega chrome tree, it looks like there's a blower set up, as well as some of the stock 4 cyl engine parts. Maybe some of the other "Street Funny" and stock parts will be there, too? I might have to do me a Street Funny...

Maybe match the shade and then don't shake the can? Maybe the metallic will not mix with the rest of the paint, and you'll get a non-metallic color when you spray. You would have to play with it a bit. I agree that the metallic for this color wouldn't show up on a model, based on how miniscule the metallic flakes are in 1:1.

I have seen Chargers and Road Runners with wings, but never Superbirds and Daytonas without. Just my opinion, I think you need a big wing- any big wing. Even if it's homemade. Maybe get a spare wing from the MPC '74 Road Runner? It's not technically correct, but it could stand in for a "prototype" wing on a "test car"... The stock wings do pop up on eBay when people part these out sometimes. Or you might need an AMT '68 Road Runner or '70 Coronet body for the front clip. You could use a '68-'70 Charger, but those fenders will mismatch a bit at the doors. Maybe wait a little bit until the right parts car comes up for Frankenstein parts... ...or maybe build it as an in-progress driver, missing the wing and maybe the nose cone. Headlights just hanging in space

Maybe swap an AMT/MPC '70 Coronet nose on it? Super Bee coming, Road Runner going... In my old neighborhood, there was a junkyard where they had a Corporation Blue '72 Demon 340 sitting there for years. At least- it was the back 1/2 of a Demon...upon further inspection, they swapped a '72 Duster nose onto it. I know that eventually that car got bought. I met the kid that bought it. He had it in primer, with a '72 Dodge nose back on it.

I'm following this, because I recently got on a GTO kick and acquired a few of these kits. It's true because while tools exist for most GTO's, most of the tools really are substandard. The '66 is the only really good one at this point. These seem popular enough to keep the old, substandard tools in production, but not popular enough to do new tools (unlike the '57 Chevy and '69 Camaro, for instance). Our only hope may be that Revell steps up with a new tool '70 in 1/25, then at least we could rob that one of it's guts to enhance the many '72's and '69's still out there. They could at least offer convertibles, Judges, Royal Bobcats and drag cars, which could justify the investment. If the chassis, wheels and engines were done really well, then they'd probably sell a lot of them just for parts. I have a few AMT '69 Oldsmobiles I was going to use for chassis, but engines remain problematic. I want to buy a '65. I recently came into a nice '64 Lemans promo, so this might go well with it. The box art looks killer. Redlines, white plastic and Hurst Mags sweeten the deal for me. I'm a little horrified by what I'm hearing about the bumpers, but I work with somebody who owned a '65 GTO new, and he knows I'm a car guy, so the car comes up in conversation probably once every two weeks (I don't mind that a bit!). It might be a kick to build it for him. So- does anybody know- could I reasonably use the transmission from the AMT '69 Hurst Olds for '69-'72 GTO's? I have no idea, I usually do Mopars. The MPC engine is not so bad, but the transmission looks horrendous...

For '66, it seems like most or all of the factory drag racers either stuck with their '65 cars, or used '66 B-body Hemi sedans (the Street Hemi being available in almost all body styles in '66, and not tied to certain models). The hot ticket that year was a stripped "Street Hemi" B-Body sedan. The "Dealer Drive" coupe you saw might have been evidence that the factory was either considering a Race Hemi package for '66, or that some cars were considered De Facto "Race Hemis". With The '66 D-Dart, while a cool idea, seems to have not been pushed too strongly by Chrysler, and it got practically zero attention by most drag racers. Now the '68 A Body Hemis on the other hand- the racers must have gone bonkers when they first caught wind of that program. The excitement probably didn't last too long though- as once they took delivery, they soon realized that those cars needed a LOT of work to set up. Stories from back then indicate that while the '65 and '67 drag specials were built as somewhat ready-to-run cars with regular factory quality, the '68 package cars were provided a bit more unfinished, and not built all that well.

Yes, the AMT / Tope/ Road Race kit has one of the hubcap wheels on the chrome shot- or it did- I had a copy from the early 2000's that had one. Those wheels weren't all that great anyway- too rounded looking to my eyes. My guess is that we'll see the MPC tool with new wheels. There is a '71-ish grille option in the tool currently, but it's not all that great looking. The MPC tool had a '71/'72 grille bezel, chrome bumper and separate grille base that attached to the body with a '71 style front valence; for the '73 annual, they tooled a grille base to the body and a '73 front bumper, grille, headlights in bezels & lower valence. They could reverse that and cut new '71 parts, but then they would probably lose the ability to issue the kit as a '73, which would be no great loss in my opinion. Restoring it to true 1971 form, and adding in a newly-tooled 351 Cleveland engine, would be truly Boss, if you excuse the bad joke...

There is a seller on eBay that does a utility body in resin, as well as a stake body, some ramp bodies, etc. Also, Hart's Parts does the '72-'73 Dodge grille & hood, as well as a set up for the '74-'76 trucks. I don't know about the quality of the beds on eBay, but Harts' Parts items and quality are first rate.

There seems to be a lot of reference out there on Dick Landy's '68 Charger Hemi super stock (and that seems to have run an inline manifold in NHRA events). If it were me, I would build this with an inline manifold- the cross rams up until that point were run in Race Hemi package cars only ('68 Dart and 'Cuda Hemi Super Stocks, '65 A-990 cars, etc.). The prior '67 WO-23/ RO-23 Super Stock package for Belvederes and Coronets used an inline set up. It was a stock-looking manifold, supposedly modified by Arlen Vanke. The '68 Hemi A body program was conceived because of complaints from the class racers that there were no "package" cars for '66, and that the '67 package cars weren't radical enough (read: light and fast), so for '68, Chrysler went all-out, using an A Body as the basis for their race package, and making the car as light as possible, with very few compromises. There was no '68 race package B-body; all Hemi B Bodies got inline intake manifolds from the factory, so presumably, that's what you had to run in '68.

Well then - without an engine, a model car wouldn't go, now would it Actually, if we were to get more subjects by bypassing engine room requirements, then I wouldn't mind not having engines sometimes. Case in point for me: the Revell '77 Monte Carlo. To me, it's fine without an engine, and it got us a much loved subject that otherwise might never have been done. Do a Blue Brothers Monaco, a Cordoba, a '71 Riviera, or any other semi-desirable '70's barge without an engine and I would be just fine with that. Some kits need an engine though. If we got a Hellcat Challenger or Charger without an engine, that would be a crime...

That is beautiful work, as you always do! I could see this as a drag car hauler, with a Pro Stock 'Cuda in the back!