“BUILDING THE COVERS “ Vol # 22 The LAST RAMCHARGER 1974 Dodge Dart funny car

[M W Elky]

This is built from the revell duster funny car kit . With the addition of the polar lights font wheels, and the excellent decals from chuck boener . I also moved engine forward and lowered the front of the body. sometime in the future I will add the chute. I’m really happy with the stance on this one 

As always thanks for looking ?,   Mike 

[Hmann68]

Love it! Nice work! Elapsed Times was a great magazine and this was a good article and super cool car. Great looking replica that you’ve done ??

[M W Elky]

It was my favorite magazine of the not to distant past just like super stock & drag illustrated I guess all good things must go.

[Scott8950]

Nice job

[Old Buckaroo]

That is Top Notch all the way, love the stance. 

I use to order the Ramchargers Performance catalogs back when I was in Junior High. Loved looking through them and dreaming.....

[M W Elky]

Sean thanks for the nice complement. I use to get the paw catalog and dream of the day of ordering a 440 wedge crate motor. Of course I’m still dreaming for that day. Great memories 

[PappyD340]

Very nice, well done!

[papajohn97]

Yet another beautiful cover car! I’m blown away by how quickly you knock these builds out Mike and each one is a very clean and high quality build. Do you display your collection with the mag cover behind each one? It would constitute an easy winning “collection” entry at a model contest someday (and an article in MCM?).

So does the body flip up on this one? If so, post another pic or two. Much thanks!

[M W Elky]

Hi John yea it flips it’s just a pain in the neck to get it to sit right on the chassis with the body closed . I’ll open it up and add some pics when I get back from vacation. I just snapped a few quick pics before I left. I don’t build as fast as you might. Sometimes real work gets in the way. All I build is drag cars and I think I have 300+. So displaying them with the magazine can’t happen yet.space restrictions my den is only 8’x10’. To do it right would be to build a long pitcher frame attached to a shelf. I built the prototype for this type of frame 20 some years ago oh how time gets away from me. Thanks for the good words, Mike