“BUILDING THE COVERS “ VOL # 39 BUD FAUBEL’S THE HONKER 1964 S/SA DODGE

[M W Elky]

I brought this kit at a car show swap meet 40 years ago because it was a red 64 dodge that mom & dad brought me home from the hospital in when i first saw the light of day.This became my first spray painted model which my dad painted for me in our old greenhouse. The red testors enamel went on nice and smooth with no orange peel or runs .However the humid greenhouse environment knocked the glossy finish off of it. I did the assembly and it lived on my shelf for the next six years at this time I decided to replace the kits born with hemi with the wedge from amt’s 49 Mercury. From here it went back on the shelf for 20 years. During a move it fell and hit the floor which took out the a pillar and cracked the windshield into storage it went. This winter I decided to take it apart and make it into the version that I always wanted with the help of smp decals a fresh paint job , and a more detailed chassis/ engine from the lindburg color me gone kit. I also used the new grill from the lindburg kit . The front wheels and tires are some leftover amt parts . The cool looking Jo-Han fender well headers don’t really fit the lindburg chassis to good and the tubes don’t meet the heads on the engine, but they look great from the outside. I think this build captures the look of the magazine cover, and I’m so glad to see it back on the shelf next to my other honker dodge’s. As always thanks for looking ? ,  Mike 

[papajohn97]

Love love love this one Mike. I envy you for keeping and restoring a model from your childhood, for sentimental reasons even more than for building a model car collection. I wish I still had some of the models that my older brothers helped me build back in the 60’s, glue finger-prints and all!

Something about a ‘64 super-stocker with front white-walls and white fender well headers that just exudes shoe-string low-buck blue-collar good old boy drag racing before big $$$ spoiled it all. Would love to browse through your magazine collection, must be awesome. Thanks for another wonderful BTC post!

[Altered Ego]

The headers make the whole vibe come together.  I love it.

[Horrorshow]

Real cool… like stepping back into the sixties 

[PappyD340]

Very cool, well done!

[Mopar2]

Very nice build.I really like the old Mopars...

[Scott8950]

Both are very nice