Dukes of Hazzard Roscoe's Police Car

[gasman]

Gleason drove a Pontiac in all three, a 77 LeMans in the first one, an 80 Bonneville in the second. and the third he drove an 82 Bonneville. (The other characters all played by Gleason at the end of the second movie drove Pontiacs, an 80 LeMans and a 79 Grand LeMans)

and the Plymouth with the shaker hood is a 75 Fury.. to build this car in scale you would need a rare MPC 75 Road Runner for the front end.

[Chuck Most]

and the Plymouth with the shaker hood is a 75 Fury.. to build this car in scale you would need a rare MPC 75 Road Runner for the front end.

WARNING: CONTENT AHEAD WHICH RELIES HEAVILY UPON MY MEMORY:

There was a company called 'Scale Squads that did a resin grille for the '77 Monaco kit to turn it into a '75(?) Fury- I don't remember the exact year, but it had the round headlamps as shown in Gasman's picture. He also did a couple of different year Dodge and Plymouth grilles for this same kit, as well as the Mopar cop six-hole wheels and hubcaps with the holes punched in them. Terry himself covered them in an old "Light Commercial" column years ago... I don't recall the exact issue, but I think it was a few years after the 'Joker's Goon Car' repop of this kit. (Of course, I'm talking about the other magazine... I won't mention it by name, but it rhymes with 'Snail Otto'.)

Edited December 2, 2009 by Chuck Most

[revshag]

WARNING: CONTENT AHEAD WHICH RELIES HEAVILY UPON MY MEMORY:

There was a company called 'Scale Squads that did a resin grille for the '77 Monaco kit to turn it into a '75(?) Fury- I don't remember the exact year, but it had the round headlamps as shown in Gasman's picture. He also did a couple of different year Dodge and Plymouth grilles for this same kit, as well as the Mopar cop six-hole wheels and hubcaps with the holes punched in them. Terry himself covered them in an old "Light Commercial" column years ago... I don't recall the exact issue, but I think it was a few years after the 'Joker's Goon Car' repop of this kit. (Of course, I'm talking about the other magazine... I won't mention it by name, but it rhymes with 'Snail Otto'.)

Does anyone have any contact information for Scale Squads? I googled them and didn't find anything. Are they still in business?

Thanks,

Chris

[george 53]

If I remember correctly, Scale Squads went out of buisness quite a few years ago. There was a guy in Texas who also produced emergency vehicle parts by the name of Tony. But I think he's been gone for some time also. It's a shame, cause I saw parts from both guys,and they were VERY nice.

[Chuck Most]

If I remember correctly, Scale Squads went out of buisness quite a few years ago. There was a guy in Texas who also produced emergency vehicle parts by the name of Tony. But I think he's been gone for some time also. It's a shame, cause I saw parts from both guys,and they were VERY nice.

George is right- Scale Squads went under in the early to mid '90's. The owner's name was Glenn 'Something-With-An-S-at-the-beginning-and-a-'ski'-at-the-end'. I seem to remember the 'Tony' guy George refers to, but can't recall any one particular product he produced.

It would probably be difficult to find the old Scale Squads parts, but I can't say it would be impossible. Start asking around with your police/fire modeling buddies- maybe they or somebody they know has a stash. You never know, right?

Edited December 5, 2009 by Chuck Most

[Janne Herajärvi]

This is actually fun kit. Ill got one on workbench now, nothing serious ill build it as snack. But if i want build this kit little more using time, what kit i should buy for parts? That really needs better chassis and some other details in serious build. AMT 71 Charger maybe? any others?

Here is my topic for build: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25446

Edited December 5, 2009 by Janne Herajärvi

[Nick Winter]

This is actually fun kit. Ill got one on workbench now, nothing serious ill build it as snack. But if i want build this kit little more using time, what kit i should buy for parts? That really needs better chassis and some other details in serious build. AMT 71 Charger maybe? any others?

Here is my topic for build: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25446

looks good,

Still haven't bought 1 of these, but when I do it'll be in bulk (30)

[Janne Herajärvi]

Thank you Nicholas I am going to buy some more of these. There is some cool parts and i want make couple more cop cars from it, they are little differend then and ill use more time than week

[spkgibson]

I have one question about this kit-- where are the rear bumper guards that make this car look right? Would it have been to hard for the to tool up 2 seperate parts? and as far as the taillights they are for the 77-78 Fury ,NOT the Monaco as they had ribs running through them like this!

[Casey]

*snip* I seem to remember the 'Tony' guy George refers to, but can't recall any one particular product he produced.

Are you thinking of Models by Tony Custom Squads, perhaps?

Old addy from 10/2000 issue of SAE:

1226 Cherry ST

South Plainfield, NJ 07080

I seem to recall he produced an ambulance box that may or may not have been pictured in a back issue of SAE...

[Nick Notarangelo]

im going to do mine and modifiy a extra chassis from the super bee to fit since the only major diffrence it the gas tank size the rest I can live with,oh and the firewall cowl needs a strip of plastic added to it.

[Chuck Most]

If anybody's still awake- I remembered I had a photo of a photo from a magazine of the Scale Squads grilles-

Yep- that's straight from Mr. Jessee's old Light Commercial column. In, you know, that OTHER model car magazine. (The one that doesn't have 'Model(s)' or 'Car(s)' in the title.) Man, I'd love to come across a couple of these grilles in a long-forgotten junk box. Better still, I'd like to see them back!

[chrismooney]

Chuck. Ill check over at Scale Fire house and see if anyone has one to repop...... thanks for the Idea..

[chrismooney]

If anybody's still awake- I remembered I had a photo of a photo from a magazine of the Scale Squads grilles-

Yep- that's straight from Mr. Jessee's old Light Commercial column. In, you know, that OTHER model car magazine. (The one that doesn't have 'Model(s)' or 'Car(s)' in the title.) Man, I'd love to come across a couple of these grilles in a long-forgotten junk box. Better still, I'd like to see them back!

Zoli @ scale fire house has one... I think he might cast it. Ill keep you posted Chuck!

[dukeofearl]

Hi Jessee have not heard from you since the days of SAE light Commercial. I followed you issue bhy issue. I bought your how to books, and your Yellowstone County decals. You were asking abbout Scale Models the gents name is Glenn Sokolofsky I beleive he is out of New York and owns or ownerd several vintage police cruisers. I has down ib Billings a few years ago and stopped in at the hobby shop you worked at I think I missed seeing you. Do you still have any of those Yellowstone County decals available?

[polybius]

I've been stalking a variety of kits looking for the right pieces to make this kit 'correct'. Fortunate to come across a couple '75/'76 Roadrunner kits for some added excitement, the Mopar steelie wheels with vented cop covers seem to be the most challenging to find. The kit's cop caps are almost correct, but lack the drilled out vent holes. Since the 'wide country wheels' are miserably wrong, the Revell '70 Roadrunner provides the correct oval vented steel cop wheels. Along with drilled out center caps from the Rosco car, the Roadrunner wheels might even accomodate a chrome trim ring for a not-often-seen classy cop look ;-)

The Yodel caps have divets rather than circular drilled out holes and look more like a pie plate, and the wheels in those kits lack the correct steelie rims.

The '70 Roadrunner kit can be expensive if you're just harvesting its wheels, so a less invasive choice might be early-mid 70s GM rally wheels with the molded-in trim ring - the steel wheel holes are oval, at least, and the Rosco kit center caps fit snugly over the GM wheel center cap.

[Casey]

The '70 Roadrunner kit can be expensive if you're just harvesting its wheels, so a less invasive choice might be early-mid 70s GM rally wheels with the molded-in trim ring - the steel wheel holes are oval, at least, and the Rosco kit center caps fit snugly over the GM wheel center cap.

The Mopar "Cop Car" wheels have six slots, while the Chevy Rally wheels have five slots.

[Terry Jessee]

Bandit Resins has that wheel set.

http://www.banditresins.com/resin_parts.html

It's nicely done.

Terry

[Terry Jessee]

If anybody's still awake- I remembered I had a photo of a photo from a magazine of the Scale Squads grilles-

Yep- that's straight from Mr. Jessee's old Light Commercial column. In, you know, that OTHER model car magazine. (The one that doesn't have 'Model(s)' or 'Car(s)' in the title.) Man, I'd love to come across a couple of these grilles in a long-forgotten junk box. Better still, I'd like to see them back!

Funny story about this. At one point, I decided that I didn't need this nearly ONE-OF-A-KIND CONVERSION (!!!!!!!!) so I sold it on eBay. At the time, the Dukes kit was out of production and I got this nasty note from some kit collector who told me I had no business cutting up such a valuable vintage kit, and what did I think I was doing, anyway?

In relative terms, if this Plymouth conversion is still out there I'd bet it's worth a lot more than the Dukes kit these days.

Terry

[Eshaver]

Well Terry, I guess we both fall into the "Kits were meant to be built catagory ....... " Ed Shaver

[horsepower]

Gleason drove a Pontiac in all three, a 77 LeMans in the first one, an 80 Bonneville in the second. and the third he drove an 82 Bonneville. (The other characters all played by Gleason at the end of the second movie drove Pontiacs, an 80 LeMans and a 79 Grand LeMans)

and the Plymouth with the shaker hood is a 75 Fury.. to build this car in scale you would need a rare MPC 75 Road Runner for the front end.

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If you look closely, you can see the cast in ribs in the "shaker" scoop, this indeed the old "Cal Custom" scoop that you could buy at your local parts house, it was cast in raw aluminum, & just used machine screws to hold it to our hood this one is mounted backwards to look like Pontiac's Shaker scoop.

[Duntov]

I like this kit.....I'm not a Mopar guy so I am flying in the fog on this.....it's on my work bench and I am just messing with it and having a good time.....I ended up rebuilding the chassi plate (pics later maybe)...converted to single headlights and a few other minor touches......my one big complaint is the rear end (half cast thingy).....but that's samll peanuts compared to the fun of fooling with this one......and hey it's got "4 DOORS"!!!!!!

[Terry Jessee]

Look what I just found.

Terry

[Danno]

Well, Terry, if you don't have a handy resin caster, I do ...

[gbdolfans]

Hey Guys,

I just happened on this topic and thought I would chime in.

If you are looking for fire and police items,try these links,

www.chimneyvilledecals.com

www.policecarmodels.com

They are for Chimneyville Hobbies and I don't know if they are still around and hope this helps