M W Elky

Cool project. Testors artic metallic blue might be close

That’s a ambitious project Joe at freemont resin makes the Grand Spaulding decals for the red sedan I got a set from him and they look really nice

Man talking about looking great from every angle this one checks all the box’s . Fabulous interior by the way most accurate

I just thought this would be a neat look at the progression of the funny car in the late 60’s mpc did a pretty good job keeping up with the popularity of the sport back then . I built the 68 car from a Revell body and a polar lights chassis. The custom fade paint job is testors lacquers the decals are SLIXX . The 68 kit with that great box art would make a great reissue. until next time thanks for looking, Mike

About 10 years ago I found this original box to add to my box art collection , and as luck would have it there was some original parts inside including this body in primer . I finished it off with a donor chassis from the Dyno Don Cougar and a parts box Hemi some Testors enamel slixx decals . I thought oh cool another color me gone car to the collection. Then through another post a little bit ago on this form I learned of the Don Emmonds build of the late 60’s . Since that article was before I was born I wasn’t aware of it until then . So I can only wonder if this was another Don Emmonds inspired build ? Anyway here it is .I for one am a huge advocate of seeing this one along with the Mr . Unswitchable remade . The really cool part of this kit was that it could be made one of 2 ways either A/FX or flip top as in the mid 60’s these cars would change more rapidly then model kit manufacturers could keep up with. I included a couple pictures of both cars with that excellent original box art . So until next time thanks for looking,

The Monza will be a good starter for some long over due pro stock projects of coarse I would like them to tool up a can-am style scoop . As for the Camaro f/c it has many short Cummings as the chassis is not really accurate for anything and the body has what appears to be a 69 front half with a 68 back half how ever it does have a nice 4 hole hillborn injector hat

The monza will be good to have back . Will the 65 Dodge have a drag option? I saw a photo a while ago with some really cool box art

With the good word that the kit I used to create this is coming back out soon . It’s a great kit to make some AWB match race funny cars out of . I’ve built 3 so far from it , and I hope this build will inspire others, and sell some kits . As for this build I moved the front and rear wheels forward, built a front straight axle assembly, pieced together a injected hemi with a combo of kit parts a manifold from the spare parts box , and some homemade injector stacks , and custom headers . As for the crager wheels the rears are AMT the fronts are polar lights.I covered it with testors enamel. The interior took a lot of slicing and dicing I basically cut out the rear seat and whole floor pan and made a new one from sheet styrene. Styrene rod was used for the roll bar .Unfortunately the decals are from an unknown source however I think Slixx made a set that will get you close enough if you can find a set .I’m really pleased with how this one came out . Until next time thanks for looking , Mike

Not bad at all the red side panels are one large decal and his stuff goes on really nice

Thanks for sharing the Sox & Martin link to this car I kind of thought it was the same car re-lettered and somewhere it was changed to a automatic it seems like this combo was still competitive well into the early 70’s

This would have made a good side panel on the new box art

Just think how cool this Allison would look sitting in the Ivo showboat chassis with dual slicks front & back

Sure looks great I would love to hear one . It might need a parachute to get it stopped

That’s a great looking merc

The tires seemed to be taller to

This was kinda a slump buster type of build I saw the Chris Walsh decals on the eBay and added them cart . Then I clicked around and found a Sox&Martin 67 GTX kit nicely build for like around 20 bucks so I went to check out , and within a week Walla here it is . I masked off every thing except the sides and trunk and gave it a quick shot of Krylon white right over the red sides decals and all plus the blue deck lid strips. Once dry I applied the decals and swapping out the front wheels for some more accurate slots . That’s it . I’m aware the car should have a red hood scoop however I didn’t have the right shade to match the red side decals . This is a car I didn’t know I wanted to build before I stumbled across these decals as usual Chris’s decals went on really nice a perfect fit . In the future I’ll have to go back and fix up the paint on the chassis and engine. I also need to remove the old Sox&Martin decals off the glass parts .Until then I’m calling it done . until next thanks for looking

I always thought this kit looked like it was more 1/24 scale

HEMI’s of coarse

Thanks ,It was all about finding the right color this was the second body I painted for building this one . As the first attempt was done using Tamyia paints and was to dark with a pearl finish as opposed to the metallic kind of foil finish of the Krylon paint no primer was used .

Another Moebius kit out of the box with Krylon paint , and an old set of Billy Gooche decals . Another defunct decal maker that I wish I had gotten more from as they had some great subject matter. I had been wanting to build this version for quite some time it all came together when I found this Krylon color paint at the Hobby Lobby store as that was the final piece of the puzzle . I don’t think that this was a hand me down car I believe that Dave Koffel & Gale Mortimer built this car from leftover parts from the mopar parts bins although I could be wrong. until next time thanks for looking, Mike

I’m right there with you on finding stick on letters in different fonts and scale sizes who ever knew that it would be so hard . Unfortunately all of the old school hobby and craft supply stores near me are long gone . I’m stuck with one LHS a Michael’s and a couple of Hobby Lobby’s and they all came up empty. The next time I’m near a dick block art supply I’ll try to see if they have anything. The best option might be to have sts decals custom make a sheet . I do miss the days of going into a well stocked hobby store and getting what you need .

Also the stock engine in the lindburg mavrick wheel stander would make a good donor as most of us drag car builders have a few of them in the parts box

Polecat decals

The body looks great

Great kit bash you have there it’s really different and different is always good . I’m excited to see it’s nearing completion