Joe Handley

Thanks and Maybe, maybe not, I’m just going to build it as though it has a low compression 383 in it, figure a low-ish compression but still pretty healthy 383 would be better than a larger and more powerful B or RB motor.

Got some more work done tonight, the rear suspension, torque box, and suspension lift for the rear was all glued in before going to an appointment with Dad then getting dinner. After we got home and had dinner a few hours later, I got to work lifting the front of the car by cutting and bending suspension parts to do what I wanted. It also appears that I will need to mini tub the rear a little bit as well, luckily I have plenty of prescription bottles laying around to destroy for the effort! The other thing I need to do is to try and make the curbside Jeep wheels fit the Charger’s axle and spindles, May need to figure that out tomorrow.

Got the fenders trimmed and that seemed to have done the trick, probably would have been around 1” added clearance throughout the openings if it was on a real 2nd Gen Charger.

Bill’s ‘50 Stude Rally Car got me thinking about this again and finally decided to start looking into it using the Fast and Furious Dom’s ‘70 Charger and Jeep (TJ) Wrangler Rubicon posted up a couple pics with just the TJ Rubi tires then the wheels and tires under the body with the floor sitting on a couple of slicks from the Charger kit. Then here’s the difference between the TJ kit tires and the slicks and skinnies from the Charger. I did pop it apart and mark the wheel openings so I can trim the part that has the chrome trim to make a little more room for the tires.

Got the rear axle drilled and pinned back together, going to give the CA time to cure before doing more with it. I also sanded down the part of the axle that the wheel will be CA’d to once completed, may need to do that with the other 3 as well, come to think of it.

Never caught onto this one having a side dump exhaust before!

I have to look under the desk, I dropped the chunk that broke off last night to Another Quick Edit…….. Found it! Think I can use a chunk of mangled Hot Wheels axle to pin this like David suggested!

Been thinking of this for a few years now and figured Dom’s Charger would be the best way to go, though I do need a regular Charger hood unless I want to build a scoop to make that look like it’s got a little ventilation for heat extraction. I’m using the wheels and tires from the Revell Wrangler Rubicon kit, which are taller than the slicks in the “Fast” kit, but between that kits front and rear tires in width. I’ll probably need to open the fenders and quarters by the thickness of the chrome trim for more tire clearance. Quick edit, put two of the TJ Rubi wheels in two of the tires from that kit and shot another profile pic with the wheels in the tires……. Best part of these wheels, since the most of the Jeeps built from ‘84-‘06 and all of the B-Bodies are 5 on 4.5”, this would be a plausible wheel option on a real build like this will be!

I’ve had my WiFi back since Saturday evening, but for some reason today, my laptop won’t stay connected, took me 30 min from the time I “punched in” to where I could start taking phone calls as the thing wouldn’t stay connected, now mid way through one of the few calls I’ve had, I get booted and it won’t connect again. Haven’t had issues with my iPhone and Dad hasn’t complained about it with his phone, iPad,or Mac as of yet.

I've been learning that too this past summer while playing around with Hot Wheels, made good use out of the K&S Needle File set I bought back in the mid-late 00's as well.

The Tesla in that first one kinda reminds me of the Ice-T that Rich Benoit and his crew built! https://www.motortrend.com/news/rich-rebuilds-chevy-v-8-powered-tesla-model-s/amp/

Found some Pegasus chrome reverse wheels to modify to fit, which was going to work great………… until the right side of the rear axle broke on me? Here’s how the rest of the lowering went though.

Oddly enough, I have one of those too and was planning on using it as a donor, it have somehow misplaced the engine and had been looking at another to get the engine out of.

Does anybody offer an aftermarket 3rd Gen Hemi that is more representative of the bread and butter 5.7l passenger car or truck? I want to put one in the AMT ‘58 Fury model and don’t want to take one out of one of my existing Testors Charger kits or out of the new R2 kit once those are available and any of the SRT motors in Styrene would be overkill for what I would want this build to represent.

I’ve about got the stance set now, just have the kit wheels and tires on it for the time being though, thinking about using the optional wheels and tires from another ‘41 Plymouth kit on this one eventually too.

Got more done on the glue kit’s suspension, need to grab my files from Dad’s work bench and start cutting the leaves and axle flat to locate the blocks.

Talked to AT&T a couple hours ago, sounds like it’s not just our internet that is out and they are working on fixing things!

Ok, on to the ‘58 Fury glue kit again, found a bunch of sink marks in the frame on the left side, filled them in with Bondic, sanded them down and used a Sharpie to lay down a guide coat to go by and it looks good enough for primer. I also filled in the frame rails that are exposed back where there doesn’t appear to be any filler panels between the rails and where the floor kicks up to the fire wall, using Bondic again there too. I do want to attach the suspension prior to painting like I did with the front of the ‘41, so the above filler was needed, though I do have a couple questions about lowering this. First is when it comes to the front, would it work ok if I just cut off the part of the spindle that the tie rods attach to and glue them back on lower so they better line up with the tie rod assembly? Second is on making lowering blocks for the back, should I file things square on the leaves and axle tubes then add some styrene in between to get the stance I want? I plan on lowering the front first so I have that as a reference for how low the rear needs to go. Thanks!

My current employer normally gave us the days before or after a holiday off if any fell on a weekend, though they’re expecting us to be busy enough on the 26th and 2nd that we Will be working those days, so since I didn’t request tomorrow or the 26th off as part of my week off next week expecting the day off any way, I got scheduled to work then and almost got scheduled for tomorrow too! It also looks like the storm knocked out our internet for now from a branch landing on the line, need to call AT&T after dinner to see how quick we can get someone here to fix it. Should be interesting to see how that works out, may end up with Monday off anyway…….

Same here, these look good laid out and were easy to do so with the Promo chassis that the old SnapFast Plus kits had. Hope that these are as well, that and that they bring back the extended cab with the regular non dually long bed as a kit too, I slammed one of those back in the day and it looked a mile long!

Think of it this way, at least you can't get any Death Wobble when the front axle is nowhere near the ground

I'm looking forwards to these, especially if they're improved versions of the 1990's promos!

If you look at the rockers, there appears to be a couple hoops just below where the doors would close over. Likely used latches for the barn door style side and back doors on the Econoline vans.

Thanks! Got a little sanding done today and should have it shaped how I want. Just needs primer now to tell me the truth.

Well, I’ll deal with the sanding tomorrow, but got the strips bonded to the car tonight!