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I was in our local Ollies end of last week. They had maybe a dozen of the Cosmic Chargers for $7.99 . I though about grabbing one or two. But my experience was not good with the one I started on last fall.

Is it just me, or have the major players gotten quite tight lipped on new releases ?

Ok, your over there in the corner. The farthest eastern part of AZ we've been is we visited Bigsbee a few years back . . Thats an interesting little town

My one and only dealings with them was via Ebay. It went perfect. . Although it was maybe 10 years ago or more????. ( my memory isn't what it used to be ) But Ive heard dozens of stories and NONE had a good ending for the buyer

VERY nice.

Cool article. But one ugly car

The actual car and the model of said car. Actually both the model and the car itself were painted with the exact same paint. The real car is out in the sunlight. The model is indoors under artificial light.

VHT Engine Enamels, Paint, High-Temperature, Engine, Enamel, Gloss, Early Chrysler Blue, I use this for 1968 and earlier Mopar builds . Its closer to green than it is blue. To be honest. I use regular engine paint on all my model builds. Ive got numerous cans on hand .

Dupli-Color DE1631 Ceramic Chrysler Corp. Blue Engine Paint -

In the future if you want to do a fuel block . Look at the beading isle in hobby lobby or Micheal's Crafts. Also take a look at model rail road supplies for hollow small square brass stock.

Good idea. REALLY like the shop as well.

Went in the local one yesterday. Left empty handed. Walked across the lot to Ollies.....same deal. Nothing worth buying.

If anyone has a spare or 2 of the luggage rack. I need 2 ...maybe even 3 if I can get them

Ya know, I'm not a corvette guy by any means. But thats one car I sure would like to see in 1.25th scale

Agreed, I managed to pick up a couple of the 64 Comets when they were released . And did pick up a sealed 59 Imperial a couple years ago. Neither of which are very common on sellers swap meet table. I for sure would take one or 2 more of each for sure

This is all rattle cans. 1st painted the entire body gold. I took a mailing box not much bigger then the body itself. cut open one end at a slight angle to mimic the angle of the colors as shown placed just enough to allow the nose to stick out from about the center of the front wheel openings exposed . Then spray the white nose using Tamiya pure white, followed by a misting of Testors white lightning to get the pearl look to it. Again over the white part of the nose only. Holding the body in hand I sprayed the back of it just maybe a couple inches from the tail lights forward . With what ' I think it was a testors' DARK metallic red. followed by 2 or 3 light coats of Tamiya Clear red with the heavier coats towards the back end of the body. Thus making it look like it fades into the gold. Using the previous box . Place it over the front end of the body . spray a light coat of clear red. . prior to the next coats slide the box back maybe an inch . Essentially making the red get darker as it goes rearward. Its a little hard to see the fade in pictures,,but its there . Then 2 or 3 coats of wet look clear once the decals are on it . This is a curbside build.. There's no engine , the hood is glued shut , chassis and interior is nothing but Duplicolor satin black and very little interior detailing picked out with a silver sharpie . I built in a day. Just to see if I could do it

bring it on bro. Garage is empty.....for now. Plus my preferred painter now has access to a real nice paint booth. So i can now keep everything in house . But here are a few under hood pictures. The premise from the very beginning was a car that looks factory stock to the casual observer without really sweating the tiniest of details. ( no date coded plug wires , ribbed vacuum lines etc ) . He was told NOT to buy it. It was that rough. But he wanted a father and son project, But soon found out rather quickly he was over his head. Thats where I came in. And over the past 4 - 5 years Ive had it. Working on it as my time and his finances allowed . Every nut bolt and screw has been touched from end to end . Probably a little more work/detail then he originally envisioned . But he is ecstatic with the final outcome. The car is powered by a very mild build 440 ( if you can call 11 to 1 compression mild ) Just enough cam in it to tell its not stock . Flowing thru stock exhaust all the way to NOS chrome tips under the rear bumper. Front suspension is mostly stock. Albeit all powder coated and new wear items. Its has been converted to power front disc brakes. A McLeod diaphragm clutch so its easy on the left leg at stop lights. Updated to a 3.5" chrome moly driveshaft. and the aforementioned 4.10 Dana . So the car should should more than hold its own on the streets of northern Dayton Ohio . Interior was originally black , but we decided the white looked so much better with the original EE1 dark blue metallic. Which is a rather rare color in its own right . The original Am radio is now modern internals to play AM/FM and a USB port to be able to connect to his I phone or Laptop for those long drives . And he fully intends to drive the snot out of it .

To cool. Where in Az ? We are planning to move to Suharita Az in next year or so.

I've still got the trailer out of mine. I'll never do anything with . I can be talked out of

Must be a competition to see who can produce the ugliest car

OMG. That is easily the best looking 1.25th scale boat I have ever seen

Agreed, Drag cars from 1966 are vastly different than drag cars from 2016

Well, After far to long of it taking up space in my garage . The owner picked it up yesterday afternoon. Soon to be terrorizing the streets around Dayton Ohio. This car was REALLY rough when I started. Its basically had the entire back half of it replaced with new sheet metal. Both fenders , both doors , parts of the firewall, parts of the floor pan and the entire upper cowl and lower cowl panels have been replaced or repaired. Its an original 4 speed Charger RT , repainted in its original EE1 Dark Blue poly . Mild build on a 1968 440 , has the correct Hemi 4 speed transmission and a 4.10 Dana is under it as well . Built to look reasonably close to stock to 90% of the viewing public. But its NOT an OE replica stock build. Its his play toy I restore cars for a living , although more like part time now though ( Used to do it full time in my own shop )

I might have a set of the Spinner hubcaps from the 1966 Charger if those would work ?

Piece of cake. Wonder what the decals look like this issue ?