72 Demon Street/ Strip resin build

[Moparman18064]

This build is a replica of the 72 Demon I owned for about 15 years.

It was born a 340, 4 speed, B5 Blue car. That did not last as seen. It was custom painted black with Candy Tangerine panels with ghost stripes / images with blue, red, yellow designs. The original 340 went bye bye, in its place was a .030 over 68 340 with higher compression pistons, professionally balanced, custom wild ported X heads, Comp cams 292 duration cam, Edelbrock Victor, NOS nitrous system, tweaked 750 double pumper fed by 1/2” aluminum fuel line with twin black Carter pumps through a Fram HPG1 fuel filter. A Lakewood scatter shield, slick shift modified 833 trans, 4:10 sure grip. The springs were Superstock and moved inboard 3” and had an adjustable pinion snubber. All interior panels were aluminum, rear seat removed, 6 point cage. The seats were from a Fiero GT.

On to the build: 
I started with a resin body I bought on EBay many years ago. The chassis is from the AMT 71 Duster. The engine, trans, carb, nitrous bottle are VCG Resins. The seats are from a Fiero kit I found on EBay. The shifter is from Harts Parts. The hood scoop is from the Monogram Camaro. Much of this kit was scratch built using styrene sheet, rod, aluminum sheet, tubing. All the braided stuff is from Ted’s Modeling Marketplace. 
I cut out the trunk to make access to battery, nitrous, cage. Designing the hinges drove me nuts, as there was no solid place to mount them. The paint was another story all together, as I had a Candy Tangerine disaster the first time. I still have to paint the marker lights, the Moroso air cleaner once it gets here, and do the rear hood pins on the hood. 

Edit, second set of pictures are with mirrors, hood pins, marker lights installed. It is also pictured with the strip tires and rims

 

I forgot, grille and marker lights are the new Few Sprues Loose items.

Edited October 26, 2024 by Moparman18064
Missed grille

[XYHARRY]

Very cool Mopar there Rich, I bet you wish you still had the 1:1 parked in the garage. I like all the extra go fast bits you have on this and the colour combo fits the street/strip look. Really well done. 

Cheers, 

David. ??

[Musclecarbuilder]

Very nice! It turned out fantastic!

[drodg]

Very nice build,   good job. 

[espo]

Alway a joy to build a replica of a previously owned car or truck, especially something as special as this. This had to be a terror on the road or the strip. 

[Moparman18064]

10 hours ago, XYHARRY said:

Very cool Mopar there Rich, I bet you wish you still had the 1:1 parked in the garage. I like all the extra go fast bits you have on this and the colour combo fits the street/strip look. Really well done. 

Cheers, 

David. ??

Thank you very much David. As a matter of fact, I do wish I still had it, along with several others, like every E body I’ve owned

4 hours ago, Musclecarbuilder said:

Very nice! It turned out fantastic!

Thank you very much

4 hours ago, drodg said:

Very nice build,   good job. 

Thank you!

53 minutes ago, espo said:

Alway a joy to build a replica of a previously owned car or truck, especially something as special as this. This had to be a terror on the road or the strip. 

Thank you. It was a terror on the street, a little tricky, as it got very fishtail happy. On the track, it was much more behaved. It was a joy though, always turned heads

[slusher]

Fantastic looking Demon!

[Moparman18064]

35 minutes ago, slusher said:

Fantastic looking Demon!

Thank you Carl

[ybsluos]

Rich this is a well built replica of your super bad machine!  I love Demons, Dusters and Darts.

I bet you embarrassed a lot of big blocks with this combination.

Edited October 24, 2024 by ybsluos
Forgot something

[Moparman18064]

Thank you very much Mark. Yes, it did do it’s share of that.

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Moparman18064]

4 hours ago, PappyD340 said:

Looks great!

Thank you Larry

[STU111]

That’s one wild machine in terms of looks and grunt to match. It’s cool you made a model of the actual car, a labour of love. It looks tuff as. ??

[ChrisR]

Nice.

[Moparman18064]

41 minutes ago, STU111 said:

That’s one wild machine in terms of looks and grunt to match. It’s cool you made a model of the actual car, a labour of love. It looks tuff as. ??

Thank you very much Stuart. I did the best I could considering scale and skill.

39 minutes ago, ChrisR said:

Nice.

Thank you Chris

[Zippi]

Pretty kewl looking Demon.  Bet that was a hoot driving the 1:1 around for 15 years.  

[Moparman18064]

Thank you. It was cool, but the 6 bucks a gallon wasn’t, still wish I had it.

[Rattlecan Dan]

Cool car. Nice build. A very nice keepsake.

[Moparman18064]

37 minutes ago, Rattlecan Dan said:

Cool car. Nice build. A very nice keepsake.

Thank you Dan. Not quite a show piece to me yet, but I am getting better. I was away from building for 30 years.

[spkgibsonfirebird]

Great looking build!!!!

[keviiin86]

Looks great! I love how it sits with the drag race setup in the last pics, where did you get those cragar super tricks?

[Moparman18064]

1 minute ago, keviiin86 said:

Looks great! I love how it sits with the drag race setup in the last pics, where did you get those cragar super tricks?

Thank you. The Super Tricks came from 3D ScaleParts.

[Moparman18064]

1 hour ago, spkgibsonfirebird said:

Great looking build!!!!

Thank you Stephen

[Leica007]

Really like the paint scheme and admire the engine detailing, which must have taken a great deal of time. The overall effect must have turned heads.

[Moparman18064]

8 minutes ago, Leica007 said:

Really like the paint scheme and admire the engine detailing, which must have taken a great deal of time. The overall effect must have turned heads.

Thank you, yes, I literally have about 200 hours wrapped up in it. It never failed to turn heads.