AMT 1991 Dodge Stealth Indianapolis 500 Official Car

[BradD81]

Pulled out an old kit from the collection for a quick build.  I am a big vintage Mitsubishi fan and the Dodge Stealth RT is a re-skinned Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4.  Did a little experiment with this one, I was nervous about matching the color to the original car, but the kit was molded in a pale yellow that is pretty close but lacks the pearl finish. This was not a normal production color for the 1991 Stealth but was used exclusively for the Indy500 cars.  I decided to smooth out the body as best as possible and just ad a pearl clear top coat to deepen the shine and match the original finish.  If I do say so myself, I think it looks pretty accurate!

Just finished....

 

Added the decals and took it outside for a few photos. Unfortunately the sun was not out today and you cant see the pearlesent effect as well as you can in person. 

Yellow strobes hidden under the spoiler for official car duties...

Thanks for looking!  -Brad

 

[charger74]

It looks very good !!

[slusher]

Very nice and something you seldom see a Dodge Stealth..

[gtx6970]

I like it.

And remember all to well the stink it raised using an import car in the race duties , even though the pre-production Viper was used as the pace car

[Joe Handley]

I like it.

And remember all to well the stink it raised using an import car in the race duties , even though the pre-production Viper was used as the pace car

It did, that's why that pre-production Viper ended up as the Pace Car that year, the UAW raised such a stink about it not being American that Chrysler had to make that switch.  Makes me wonder if the Talon would have raised as big a stink, even though it was assembled here in Illinois.

[KWT]

Good looking build

[bogger44]

Nice! Pretty rare to see one of these built.

[89AKurt]

Dredging this up, because I'm ramping up to build this!

[Tom99]

Looks good.

[Cpt Tuttle]

Looks pretty accurate to me!

[Dominik]

cool!