Bullitt charger

[happy grumpy]

Built from the excellent Revell kit, I saw that movie when it came out in 68 , I was 11 years old and just fell in love with the charger. Bullitt did to car chases what star wars did to sci fi. built box stock except for the wheels I used the dodge hub caps from Fireball Modelworks. The movie car had the 440 but I used the hemi instead. I also did the mustang and the magic green beetle that keeps re-appearing during the chase . I will post them eventually.

Thanks to all of you who take the time to look and comment. Really appreciated.

[gseeds]

Awesome build, I really like how all your builds look so real!!

[Doug 1061]

Nice.  Great paint work,  black is kind of a pain.   That was a great chase scene.  I really like how the  Charger was able to grow new hubcaps when they fell off.  Now to make one after the wreck/explosion?

[ClassicDarts]

Excellent job. I always liked the Charger in Bullitt much more than the Mustang... there's something about muscle cars in their more plain, luxury, or just overall more subdued color/trim schemes/packages that I appreciate more than the brighter colors, stripes, spoilers, scoops etc.

Not necessarily because the sportier ones are what you always see or that I'm getting older, either. I've felt this way for most of my life. That, and generally speaking, I'm not really a Ford guy.

That said, I do have a Revell '68 Mustang Bullitt kit that I built as the Bullitt Mustang. ?‍♂️

Edited November 11, 2021 by ClassicDarts

[Zippi]

Good looking Charger Mario.  Smooth looking paint job.

[youpey]

i love the vinyl top. can i ask how you did it?

[Bainford]

Nice looking Charger. Looks good in plain black with skinny wheels, though I see it’s only wearing four of its seven hub caps. 

[happy grumpy]

thank you all for your kind words.

Miles, I get no credit for the vinyl top. I wanted to build the  " dirty Mary, crazy Larry " 69 charger so, the 68 has a smooth top and the 69 had a vinyl top so I swapped the bodies. I filled the side markers of the 69 and used the 68 round marker decals. The 68 had a smooth side so I used square decals for the marker lights. I had a little issue with fitting the front 69 grille on the 68 body though. I will have to go back to it to correct it. In all not much work involved. The vinyl top on the 69 kit looks really good. Kudos to Revell.

[TransAmMike]

Very cool Mario, and man that blackmis gorgeous?

[Dominik]

8 hours ago, gseeds said:

Awesome build, I really like how all your builds look so real!!

agreed. I have the Bullitt Mustang on my "to-do-list" and in line with it, it must follow this one.

May i ask, where the hubcaps are from?

[ChrisR]

Looking great!

[espo]

Beautiful rendition of the movie car. Black paint on any car be it 1/25th or 1:1 is a pain but worth it when it is done right. I like you and so many others have always thought that the car chase in this movie set a pretty high mark for movies that came after. I hope you have a few spare Hub Caps just incase. 

[Mike C]

Looks great. Is that the metal kit? I have both the Mustang and Charger metal kits unbuilt. I have the movie on DVD. I saw it in the theater when I was a kid. That chase scene had everybody hitting imaginary brake pedals in the theater seats. Still a great chase scene too.

 

Edited November 11, 2021 by Mike C

[Jim B]

Really nice looking Charger.  Well done.

[spencer1984]

Looks great!

[happy grumpy]

Dominik,

the hub caps are from Fireball modelworks. Joseph has a lot of excellent products. 

https://fireballmodels.info/. if you want to look it up.

Michael,

it is a combination of the Revell 68 and 69 kits. 

[Dragonhawk1066]

Nice work! Yes, that is an excellent kit.

[Koellefornia Kid]

The greatest car chase in movie history! Very well done!

[TonyW]

That's a good looking Charger for sure.

One look at those hubcaps and the movie comes straight to mind.

[grodudulle77]

Very nice build !! ??

[ATHU]

Looking very nice. superb black paint job!!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[RAMBENNA]

well done Mario, looks great. garage is cool too

[slusher]

Very sharp Charger!

[Mattilacken]

Looking really good! I wouldn’t mind some more pics and some detail shots ? a sucker for pics