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Those ARII wheels look more like the ones used on the tv show. The kits wheels and stripes are from the movie. Wheels and tires too small and the stripe is wrong for the tv car. The tv car had more of a rearward stripe where it curves on the rear quarter. It followed the quarter behind the window where it slants and goes more to the rear before it turns forward. The movie car looks more straight down like the kit decals.

The intake is under the blower. You mean the carbs and stacks. The carbs fuel bowels face forward as in the top pic.

Good looking Mopar's.

They really should not be lowered at all. Rules require 4 inches of clearance around the cars when sitting still. They only get close to the ground at top speed when areo forces push the car down on the soft springs they use. They have been using the stiff bar, soft spring approach since the 90's. So, unless you have a driver in it and trying to make it look in motion, you might not want to lower it in order to make it look more authentic.

Depends on the year you are talking about. 90's and up, no window trim. They have a black out tape strip around the glass. It does several things. It blocks out sun, looks good, but most of all it helps to keep the Lexan windows from cracking around the edges when it's under stress. It's held down by metal brackets screwed into the sheet metal and some are screwed into the glass as well. They come in different shapes from triangle to rectangle to inside braces as well. Now the 80's and older cars have factory chrome trim and from the 60's to the 80's you'll find some to all of them have the same kind of screw in tabs that I mentioned above. I guess there was no one was to do it rule other than the windows had to be secure until the 90's when everyone pretty much used the same thing. Hope that helps.

All of those MPC kits have a generic wheel base adjustable chassis that looks nothing like what they ran in those cars back then. They used that same chassis in Dodges, Fords, and Chebby race cars. Best to find a stock Daytona and use some of the MPC race parts and body on the stock chassis. You have to remember when they ran those cars in the 70's they were still stock frame cars with reinforcements and roll cages and beefed up stock engines. That link will have some interior cage shots for Daytona's. https://www.google.com/search?q=NASCAR+Dodge+Daytona+interior&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin5Iimhf_VAhWIyoMKHQ5JB5YQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=636 There's some decent chassis pics at this link. https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=636&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=NASCAR+Dodge+Daytona+chassis&oq=NASCAR+Dodge+Daytona+chassis&gs_l=psy-ab.3...108190.109126.0.110561.7.6.0.0.0.0.209.729.0j2j2.4.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.2.376...0i8i30k1.4HpAU7VWQIk#imgrc=zNU-ChLLMEXRUM: Hope that helps.

Builders Jim Schaeffer and John Collier performed extensive modifications to the A100 in order to fit a 426 Hemi engine and TorqueFlite automatic transmission. Since the A100 was a cabover design, Schaeffer and Collier opted to install the drivetrain in a roughly amidships configuration behind the rear of the cab, in the pickup bed, within a welded steel subframe. Parts deemed unnecessary were removed from the body, among them the heater, dashboard, front bumper and all body sealer. The passenger doors were replaced with fiberglass units. The Little Red Wagon's first dragstrip run netted a mid-11 second quarter mile at 120 mph (193 km/h).[1] The vehicle was not originally intended to perform wheelstands; the slight rearward bias caused the nose to lift in the air for nearly the entire quarter-mile run. Golden soon purchased the truck from Dodge for use as an exhibition racer. The Little Red Wagon debuted in the 1965 season opener at Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, California in front of 10,000 fans and reporters from major newspapers and automotive publications. The vehicle suffered three wrecks in 1969, 1971 and again in 1975. After the 1975 wreck, Golden converted a non-operable show truck and campaigned it for the next thirty years. Golden entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1977 with a 4230' (1289m) wheelstand, approximately the length of three quarter-mile dragstrips. In 2009, the Little Red Wagon was sold at RM Auctions Icons of Speed and Style Auction. The vehicle was expected to fetch US$300,000; it was instead the auction's top seller at $550,000.[2] It is also the subject of a 1/25 scale model kit from IMC and was later reissued by Lindberg Models. Besides the wreck, there were several versions with different engines, and induction systems, and paint schemes. The original truck just had two 4 bbls carbs,then it was hillborn injected, and supercharged at some point. I dont think it ever had a tunnel ram on it, but dont rule that out. It ran different wheels over the years and it did have gold wheel wells at one time. When Dodge first built it and Bill Maverick drove it, the driver was on the left as normal. At some point it was rebuilt with the drivers seat in the center of the cab. Just like that movie Hot Rod. So many versions of that Willy's coupe to build. You just have to pick a version you like and build it.

WoW. I'd like to get one of those. Where did you get it? Wished someone made the 80's Dodge Challenger too. I have a real 80's Challenger and I plan to build an S and M tribute car out of it. Would be cool to have a model of it too as well as the Arrow.

To strip the body, use Super Clean. Find it in the auto section at Wal Mart in a purple bottle. It wont hurt the plastic at all. I've let them soak over night on hard stuff.

Oooh, I want those tweezers. lol I'll have to check out my local store. I use all sorts of plastic bags like that to retain parts and sometimes whole projects.

Dremel, various Dremel bits, and your favorite polish.

Good looking car. On a side note, real Mopar guys don't use traction or slapper bars on there race or street cars. IT wont allow the springs to work like they are engineered to do. But, it is a model after all, lol. Depends on how accurate you want to make it.

Where can I get one of those?I've never seen one in a kit.

Yeah, it's costly. I couldn't find a complete kit when I was searching so I got a couple built kits to break down and rebuild. I'm working on that Jag scene and I have two bulldozers so I may try to create the end scene too. And those dozers and cheap either. At least they were complete new kits.

There was an old race car street car version of a Jag XKE that had a similar fin on it. I ran across one on e bay when I was doing the Jag from Vanishing Point.

I thought it looked pretty good to me. I own one of these Road Runners low mileage original show winning car. Only thing you got wrong in the writing portion is that these cars also came with the 360. And these cars were faster than the same year vette. Only thing that could outrun these trucks was the Little Red Express trucks cause they did not have the emissions to deal with. Not cat converters air pumps or anything like that. It's not your fault either, but the kit got the drivers side exh. manifold all wrong too. It's up swept like the old 70's 340 piece that went on the Duster.

Distributors with msd boxes.

I saw that black Caddy when it used to sit outside in front of Johnny's house when I was a kid. There was no walls or gates or anything. My dad drive up in this circular drive and we looked but did not get out of the car. It was parked in the grass beside the drive in his front lawn.

Jim16 has parts you need on ebay for your car. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-24-1-25-scale-model-resin-casket-coffin-hearse-/182115513547?hash=item2a66ee34cb:g:bv4AAOSw~otWbxs5

Plumb Crazy cars only had black interior from all the real cars I have seen and dealt with. Even my Moms Demon had black interior with PCP color. That's not PCP by the way. PCP is not metallic like yours.

The Bee chassis works better due to how the firewall and fender wells are made on the Bee compared to the Charger. I already have one under the same car being built here, but it's just a mock up for now. I'll get to it in the future, I hope. lol

I have to agree with you there on both points.

Ahhh, the Hoosier wars, I remember that. Good dirt track tires, sorry ###### for asphalt tires though.

Black, semi gloss.

Lookin good.