Joe Handley Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 After nearly 5 long years, the car is finally done! I was concerned that the blue was going to overpower everything with the bumpers being body color, but after painting the grill and tail light panel then adding the bright work, that concern was unfounded. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hard_2_Handle_454 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Good conversion. I had that idea a long time ago, but never got around to it. The kit prices went up and I had other kits I wanted for the collection. Maybe one day I'll get to build one too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelle Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 nice work i made a 69 charger 500 convertible earlier this year i to painted it blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spencer1984 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Nice job on this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 Thanks everyone, I appreciate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 (edited) . Edited December 31, 2023 by Joe Handley Double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooOld Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Excellent work ! Interesting idea . . . I bet they would have sold a bunch of them ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, TooOld said: Excellent work ! Interesting idea . . . I bet they would have sold a bunch of them ! Thanks! Dad and I were looking at it after I had it in primer and both came to the conclusion that this looked like it would have looked great in full sized and would have sold well. I’m just wondering that since Chrysler and AMC were the smaller of the 4 domestic companies then, if they would afford to engineer then produce this as a drop top, as well as the Coronet and Satellite/RoadRunner/GTX all at the same time. That said, this could have stolen a lot of sales from the other B-Body convertibles had they actually built it, maybe even some of the bigger C-Body convertibles too. Edited December 31, 2023 by Joe Handley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyjim Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Looking good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncbuckeye67 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 That is a very clean build! I love the blue, especially on the bumpers. I did one years ago with an MPC Daytona kit, but my homemade boot cover looks like a 5-year-old made it compared to yours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 14 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said: That is a very clean build! I love the blue, especially on the bumpers. I did one years ago with an MPC Daytona kit, but my homemade boot cover looks like a 5-year-old made it compared to yours. Thanks! I found someone who was repopping the boot from the original issue of the MPC ’68 Coronet R/T when I first started this build and bought that, same with the Recall Wheels, they’re repops from the MPC ‘68 Barracuda kit that were bought about the same time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeah Nah Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Love that colour! Nice conversion work too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncbuckeye67 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 6 hours ago, Joe Handley said: Thanks! I found someone who was repopping the boot from the original issue of the MPC ’68 Coronet R/T when I first started this build and bought that, same with the Recall Wheels, they’re repops from the MPC ‘68 Barracuda kit that were bought about the same time. Now that the Coronet is out, I may have to revisit that one, Lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 7 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said: Now that the Coronet is out, I may have to revisit that one, Lol. It’s funny how when I started this build 5 years ago, I had to get resin repops of those parts and now the Coronet is back on the shelves and the Barracuda will be soon too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6bblbird Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Very nice! I saw a 1:1 Charger convertible at Carlisle this past summer. It seemed like Chrysler missed the boat by not making these. WF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 2 hours ago, 6bblbird said: Very nice! I saw a 1:1 Charger convertible at Carlisle this past summer. It seemed like Chrysler missed the boat by not making these. WF I had seen pics of the converted cars and read that they just reskinned Coronets convertibles for the Charger Convertibles that are out there now, that’s where I got the idea to use the resin repop boot from the MPC ‘68 Coronet annual for this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slotto Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Super clean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncbuckeye67 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 20 hours ago, Joe Handley said: It’s funny how when I started this build 5 years ago, I had to get resin repops of those parts and now the Coronet is back on the shelves and the Barracuda will be soon too. Yeah that's my least favorite Cuda body style, but the more I look at it, I may just have to get one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan Dan Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 That's pretty cool. Nice job. Happy New Year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 9 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said: Yeah that's my least favorite Cuda body style, but the more I look at it, I may just have to get one. I have one that I bought through the club raffle a year or two ago that was an 80’s issue, but may buy another too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncbuckeye67 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 There's a former car dealership (1930's -40's??) in my town that has a gold 69 'Cuda (along with a few other goodies). Keep forgetting to get a pic though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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