Jungle Jim camaro

[M W Elky]

This is my first post so I’m going to start with my favorite funny car pilot I built this using a Amt/ertl camaro body with the front wheel well’s cut out and moved forward the patch panels behind wheel wells were cut from the side of a donor body which will provide enough material for several conversions. The chassis and interior is sourced from the mpc hot rod funny car and will work with little or no modification —  I pulled mine out of the spare parts box I had to make the front axle from aluminum tubing. The rear end is from the amt 1967 comet the transmission is from the revell 1932 5window coupe the decals are slixx the body color is tamiya 

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Scott8950]

On 2/9/2022 at 7:09 PM, PappyD340 said:

Looks great!

X2

[dragcarz]

Really nice conversion work here. I have several resin bodies but I prefer doing them in plastic. Well done!

[slusher]

Super Nice!

[Sledsel]

Nice conversion there. 

[M W Elky]

5 hours ago, dragcarz said:

Really nice conversion work here. I have several resin bodies but I prefer doing them in plastic. Well done!

I’ve made 4 of these camaro funny body conversion’s so far.they are fairly easy to do. I had a couple of the old tan ertl eara kits that I didn’t know what to do with.so I brought some of the round 2 orange plastic camaro kits     on sale at hobby lobby,and started cutting.i sacrificed one body from wheel well to wheel well to use for patch panels.with the other body’s i cut out the front wheel well as far forward to the front pan as possible.then cut out a patch to fill in behind the wheel wells the patches get it kinda close it dose require some filing to true up the body lines.some times I have to trim the decals to fit.i think most of them are drawn to fit a comp resin body. my conversion fits the common mpc chassis very well.the mustang interior fit’s the best the challenger interior will need to be trimmed.