1990 dodge daytona

[Jared Roach]

well, I,m working on this on the side while I work on my camaro. I got lucky this week and found this and a 81 bronco. Well I've been wanting to do this for awhile but haven't been able to find this kit till now. It's the 88 daytona, which I'm going to make a 90, not very many body modifications needed but the interior has to be completly redone because(I don't know when they changed it, but the kit interior and the 90 is different)I've already cut off the lower body lip that was on the kit, shaved the vents on the hood, and still have to add a piece of thin styrene to get it exectly right. I'm still trying to find something I can do for the rims. Out of all the pics on the net, NOT ONE has the same rims, but my mom said she bought it like that, so I don't know.This one is going to be awhile though because I want it just like pics.

the pics:

how the body came:

and how it looks now:

Edited February 3, 2010 by bowtiebadboy333

[Jared Roach]

and here is pics of the 1:1 interior:

This thing is going to take a while though but I think it will look good once done, and I like the way these look better then the shelby's or turbo one's.

[Jordan White]

Those are wheel covers (since you can see silver through the spokes), and they must not have been real popular. I did find them (or at least I think I did) at an online store that sells hubcaps though: http://www.hubcaps.org/daytona.html

It looks like the ones on her car are the spoked wheel covers, with the plain center pieces (that fit around the lug nuts).

[Jared Roach]

Those are wheel covers (since you can see silver through the spokes), and they must not have been real popular. I did find them (or at least I think I did) at an online store that sells hubcaps though: http://www.hubcaps.org/daytona.html

It looks like the ones on her car are the spoked wheel covers, with the plain center pieces (that fit around the lug nuts).

Yea I thought the were hubcaps, yea it is the sport which is like the base daytona so they probly weren't very popular.

[Jared Roach]

well, on the site it said it was an 89 so maybe her's was an early 90? I'm trying to find out more about this thing.

[Rick Schmidt]

There are similar wheels in the AMT 89 Taurus and a set in the 72 Chevy truck I think. One thing I did on building mine was shorten the rear bumper a hair. Dunno how correct it is but it looks a bit better out of the box the bumper just looked too long

[Olskoolrodder]

As someone who owned a few Daytonas "back in the day" (84,85,86 CS or Turbo Z's,'88 Shelby and '90 VNT Turbo'd Shelby),I think this will be a kool build!

[Joe Handley]

As someone who owned a few Daytonas "back in the day" (84,85,86 CS or Turbo Z's,'88 Shelby and '90 VNT Turbo'd Shelby),I think this will be a kool build!

Having owned a couple of the Daytona's siblings, I have to say Ditto!

[Jared Roach]

Wow it's been along time since I updated this, but I finally got some work done on this.

Like I mentioned before, the interior in the 90 was redesigned that year, so the whole interior has to be modified.

So I started with the kit dash and started to add styrene pieces to build up the general look of it. Later on I will add the details, but for now I'm just trying to get the basic shape.

Like I said I still have alot of work to do, but I am working on this one again and will update when I get more done.

Thanks for looking.

[MyBradKeselowski]

Looks to be a very interesting project, great scratch building

on the dash...

[charlie8575]

Very good work on the i/p, Jared. It might be easiest to get a picture of a gauge cluster, radio, etc, and photo-reduce them.

Charlie Larkin