Joe Handley

Thanks again, any interior pictures would be appreciated too! Other than a few GM products (the G-series van being the only ones I would buy for a project) and our XJ Cherokees (even my '98 still has a good bit of AMC to it), we've stayed pretty loyal to Chrysler over the years, even as FCA. I did get some 2 part glazing filler for this Charger and the '88 Shelby Z I'm also building from a local auto body jobber called RestoPaint. Told the owner Miguel what I was looking to do and the stuff he recommended mixed and went down nicely, I did leave it to cure until tomorrow before I start working on sanding the filler.

I did get some 2 part glazing filler for this Shelby Z as well as the Charger convertable I'm also building from a local auto body jobber called RestoPaint. Told the owner Miguel what I was looking to do and the stuff he recommended mixed and went down nicely, I did leave it to cure until tomorrow before I start working on sanding the filler.

Thanks! I've tried to Google the portion of the interiors that held the mechanicals and nobody has any good pics that I can find, that's why I finally bought the '69 GTX kit. Sadly, I one of the best views I've found was a quick clip from a recent Mecum auction on TV of what I think was a Coronet R/T or Super Bee convertible, and even that wasn't great. I'm building this as a "what if" styling prototype including the Recall wheels and using the shorter, stock windshield for if they were looking to see how it would look with the normal Charger sized windshield in it. I need to look at the Revell '68 Charger kit interior pieces to see of there is anything missing that should be in this tub, since it looks a wee bit bare to me. Nice looking Coronet too! Dad and his next younger brother both had '62 Furys (Dad's was white with red interior, not sure what thenother was painted) then his brother had a '68 or '69 Coronet R/T Dad bought off him that he and Mom drove for a while and built up credit with until they traded on a '70 Charger R/T 440 Six Pack 4 Speed and Super Track Pack car. Not sure what color the Coronet was, but Mom HATED the stripe around the rear as it tended to attract the unwanted attention of both cops and boy racers.........needless to say, the Charger was a simple F8 Green w/white vinyl top and interior, plain steelies with dog dish caps and and no R/T stripe! Dad even had them de-trim it to look more like a 500 car too. At one time, his parent (my grandparents) had a R/T-SE Challenger in a carmel likenshade of brown with I think a tan top (it's been 40 years since I saw that last). All of them were bought in Iowa as Dad's side of the family was living around Ames at the time and Dad had been friends with the late drag racer Gary Ostrich back then before I was around too.

Of course they do, they have 4 wheels, headlights, taillights, and they're a Mid-Rear layout, they're practically twins!

Peteski is right, it's an automated manual, sounds like it's quite the set up from what it looks like in this video too! Be interesting if that ever finds it's way into the Camaro or any other future RWD cars, even if it was backing one of the 4 or 6 cylinder engines. Would be interesting if this could be set up with a torque tube assembly like the C5-C7 Vettes and the Plymouth/Chrysler Prowler. Maybe even adapt it to a V-6 and FWD layout like the Chrysler LH cars used!

Finally got around to sanding those triangle shaped filler panels to better match the quarters, decklid, and daisey panel, it's about to the point I can put some primer on it and see how much spot filler it might need! I'm also going crazy on this and the Shelby Z trying to improve the appearance of the panel gaps since they are so weak on both kits.

If you think a XKE and C2 Vette look alike, you may want to have a closer look at what you're drinking.....or meds, if not both!

Went and played with the configurature, here's what I got. That said, if I were to get a Challenger Scat Pack, it would look like this.

Or at least a Portillo's burger! It's cooled off enough here that I can actually open a window with there being a sauna effect while doing so!

Ok, didn't do much lately on the car, just smoothed out the Miliput I used to fill in the sunroof seams and glues the mirrors to the body as well as cleaned up the panel gaps further, since they were pretty bad to almost non-existant in this kit. Figured it would come our better if I glued the mirrors to the body now and then masked around them for the semi-gloss black window surrounds and beltline rub strips.Ended up using my Dremel to grind down the putty so I could sand it smooth, I think next time I use that stuff, it's going to fill actual dips, like where the door handles were on one of the AMT '59 Imperials I'm building as a mild custom.......

I couldn't afford or fit in it That said, the more I see on it, the more impressed I am by it!

Vette, looks better and you could buy a fleet for the price of that GT.

I think it's how that plastic enters the molds and settles into place.

These were too, I think it was meant to represent Sante Fe Blue that was an option on the Shelby Chargers and GLH Omnis. For reference, this really, really clean looking '83!

Just sent a note to my Dr, since this also put me at my deductable for the year, I should be able to get other issues taken care of now that affect my mobility and range of motion too!

Thanks guys!

I was wondering about that, these seemed smaller than I remembered!

I've seen that before too, although a Charger cut down to that size, but with the aeroheadrests could be interesting too

Please don't take this the wrong way since I'm criticizing post WW2 Ford here and not your work, but....... Wow, that stock drop top Merc windshield frame looks all sorts of off compared to even an unchopped coupe and just kinda wonky at best with the rest of the movie car's lines! Explains the chopped and raked top Rob Ida and crew did on an otherwise stock appearing in '17 or '18.

And the Minilights arrived today Fits the look I'm going for too

If you're aiming for a TRoG racer, I would think something like that would be more appropriate anyway. What were you going to use for batteries, charger, and motor controller? Think if I was going the Tesla sourced route a more modern style of hot rod, or even a Roth like showcar might be more appropriate.

I have to think an evolution of one that is shortened to E-Body dimensions, topless (but more windshield), and with the Daytona nose (but no wing) and '68 taillights and panel, then lowered to about the same altitude as a modern Hellcat sedan would be pretty neat looking.

I believe that car has been restored to that original iteration too! I think at one time the car ended up with a Daytona nose cone and '70 taillights and panel!

Thanks guys, this is just off the wall enough that it will make for an interesting finished product!

They already suggested paying $136/month, which would pay it off in July '22, which I would rather not let run that long. What I may do is that ince I get my car insurance paid (most of what I would have given Dad for the $600+ on my 2 went towards the heart dr. bills from this visit), I plan on paying around $100/wk as much as possible. Still need to see what I'm going to do with my Jeep too, it's still has no brakes and rust juse keeps getting worse.