6bblbird

Please post the pic{s}!!

This was absolutely not one of my favorite colors along with green! I did not have a whole lot of choice back then. True story: NY city cabs are all yellow. On a trip to Manhattan I had numerous people try to flag me down. Some even came over and grabbed the passenger side door handle trying to get in! It was not long after that I added the vinyl top and hood stripes! WF Went looking for pics of the green '68. Don't think I took any! I really hated that color!

Thank you. Yes, I saved all of my newspaper delivery money (remember paperboys?) and bought the car for $750.00 in 1971. My uncle was a sales manager at a Plymouth dealership so I got a good deal!

Yes, the Vitamin C, A-12 car is now a giant kit ( some assembly required).

The Johan fender well headers on that car came in the Re-Charged kit. There is a problem with them. Those headers would never work in real life on a hemi due to the exhaust port angle. Hemi exhaust ports aim straight down towards the ground, while a wedge exhaust port is nearly perpendicular to the ground. The kit headers meet the cylinder heads at an impossible angle. Those headers are more suited for the Max Wedge engine and would be proper for a 413 or 426 wedge car but the port spacing is wrong! You have to modify them, unless you find some early Johan headers designed for a wedge. What I have found by studying many '62 thru '65 max wedge and Hemi car photos is that early wedge cars have fender well headers and Hemi cars generally don't. If that kind of stuff doesn't bother you...........

The body work on the roof is just about done. I made the door posts by applying two .020 strips of styrene to a backing piece, notched the body and glued in place.

Very nice rendition of that kit!

The site did the same thing to me earlier today. I exited the site, reloaded, and it took my pics.

You really brought that one back! Nice job on the chassis! WF

I know! I've done a few. Two of them eventually became box art!

No, I sold that car in 1975 to buy a new road runner (74). It went through a number of different looks in the time that I had it. Have no idea what happened to it after the next owner. Of course I wish that I still had it, but you can't keep 'em all! I've held on to this one for forty years!: WF

Had a B/MP barracuda in the early seventies. It was flat towed. We brought welding torches with us to repair the oil pan when we got to where we were going!

One of my favorite Old Coyote builds!

Built this one a while ago to represent my very first car that I bought in 1971. I was elated when AMT first produced this model only to be let down when I realized that the quarter panels and tail lamps were so poorly done. Keith Marks decals helped a lot with the tail lamps. I tried to build an accurate 383 using the engine from a Monogram Super Bee. I may have been one of the few builders to realize that the instruction sheet said to put a horn where the wiper motor should be! I found the correct part somewhere! I stared at the incorrectly painted hood patch for a couple of years. It's not supposed to be rectangular. It should have a bit of a peak in the center of the hood. I recently corrected that! The Keith Marks decals helped the rear of the car look so much better. The corrected hood. Major difference! lol!

Nice 1/4 panel!

The car owner knew an upholstery guy at Rayco!

Finished:

This one is almost 9 years old so I suppose that I can bring it back! Under construction:

I could have built one using the Lindberg kit but I'm a glutton for punishment! I want people to look at it and scratch their heads like I did! Might stick a Lindberg chassis under it or use that horrible Johan chassis pan and build it curbside. We'll see. Can't find any pics of a 1:1 Fugitive but I assume that it was a real car. I also have Bud Faubel Honker decals so that is also a possibility. WF

I found the Fugitive decals at Southern Motorsports. I ordered a couple of different sheets. WF

Yep! That's what the original builder did. Transplanted the roof from a '63. I decided to leave the Fugitive alone (just gonna clean it up a bit) and build my own! I grabbed two bodies from my stash of old Johan parts and got to work. I have an hour into it so far. Pretty easy. I know that someone is going to tell me that the '63 and '64 roof lines are different. That's o.k.. Nothing a little sanding won't fix. WF P.S. Thanks for the info on the decals! I might be able to find them. I will also post some pics of the '55 later.

I found this in a group of models that were from a collection of built cars. What caught my eye immediately was the roof line. I thought that I was quite knowledgeable about Johan Mopar kits but this was odd! I never saw a Johan '64 Dodge sedan! Every one that I had ever seen was a hard top! The decals also made me wonder where they came from. Well, once I got it home I figured out the roof mystery. Can you? And can anyone tell me where these decals came from? I would love to duplicate this car. WF

Well done!

I'm a little confused as to what I'm seeing here. These are all computer generated images? Yes? Pretty cool and funky! WF

Jason, did you get any further with this project? I was wondering if you could tell us what paint you are using on this one. WF