MALCOLM DURHAM’ S 1970 CAMARO FUNNY CAR

[M W Elky]

I started building this 30 some years ago when you could still get a johan kit at your local hobby shop. That’s when we still had a few of them around the days before the internet. I started with a AMT/ERTL reissue of the 70 Camaro. I took out the body and cut it apart to lengthen the wheel base to fit the funny car chassis. In this time era resin bodies were in their infancy and many were of poor quality. The slixx decal company was just getting rolling , and testors was starting to put some great colors in rattle cans . Boy do I miss their old selection of colors and the convenience of strolling into your local hobby shop, and pick out your colors. During this time frame of the mid 80’s to early 90’s the only readily available funny car chassis in 1/25 scale from revell and johan . There was also the mpc corvette funny cars however they were a little to modern for this build. So I went with the chassis from the Johan ram rod challenger kit. At the time I had planned to make this the Jungle Jim camaro as I had the Fred Cady decals for it then for some reason after I finished the body mod’s it went in a box, and that’s where it stayed as I took a twenty year hiatus from model building. About a month ago I came across it and decided to finish it. This time using slixx Malcolm Durham decals some of which were a little intimidating and hard to put on. I painted it with a old can of testors pearl blue enamel. I already had the chassis done from years ago. It’s box stock johan with one exception which was using the heads and valve covers from the mpc flip nose 53 ford pick up kit. Until next time thanks for looking. Mike 

[Hondamatic]

This is awesome

[ChrisR]

NICE.

[PappyD340]

Very nice!