1967 Dodge Charger

[Hayabusa]

This is the first US car I´ve built in 15 years, so it was about time. As you can see it´s the `67 Dodge Charger from Revell. It will be built mostly OOB, with just a few additions like ignition wires and a roll cage. It will be a dragracer, but I don´t intend to use all the decals in the kit.

[Hayabusa]

There were som gaps to fill between the floor pan, drivshaft tunnel and firewall. If you follow the instructions you should mount the firewall to the body first, but I mounted it (the firewall) to the chassis first instead, I think it resulted in a better fit.

[Hayabusa]

Here´s the body. I shaved the chrometrim that runs from the upper parts of the front fenders, along the the side.

Edited February 16, 2013 by Hayabusa

[Hayabusa]

The rollcage was made from Evergreen styrene tubing. I got a lot of help from members of this forum when I built the rollcage. Thanks again!

The front seat is from a ´69 Dodge Dart GTS. I think it looks better than the original seats.

Edited February 16, 2013 by Hayabusa

[Hayabusa]

The paint is off-white/ivory. It´s not super shiny, since I wanted to achieve a somewhat "used look", the same goes for the interior. I plan to weather the engine bay a bit, not much but just to give the impression of a car that has been used for some years, We´ll see how it turns out.

[Hayabusa]

The underside of the car. It will definitely be weatherd.

[Hayabusa]

I added photoetch seatbelts from Eduard.

[Hayabusa]

This is how the car looks right now. I´m not totally happy with the model, but I´ve learnt a lot during the progress. I will finish the model, but hopefully the next car will look a lot better.

[Jantrix]

I like it! Keep it going!

[vintagedragfan]

aaah, my first car when I turned 15, 66 with a 440, super nice work Stefan!

[charlie8575]

I think it looks pretty good myself. Nice job on the rollcage.

Charlie Larkin

[Hayabusa]

Thanks for the nice comments Made some progress today, here´s some new pics.

[Gluhead]

No complaints here. I think it looks pretty cool.

[Builder]

Looking real nice ! Clean work. Very neat. I think I have the same kit in an earlier box. Gives me a warm fuzzy - looks like it will be an enjoyable build.

Edited February 17, 2013 by Builder

[TooOld]

I like it too , looks great so far ! I've always liked this body style Charger more than the later bodies .

Are those the kits wheels ? They look like Cragar S/S's .

[Hayabusa]

Thanks! Yes, they´re Cragar S/S's and they came with the kit.

[Hayabusa]

Update. Put decals on, all are from the kit decal sheet. However, didn´t use all of them. The "Hoosier" script is from a Slixx decal sheet.

Edited March 10, 2013 by Hayabusa

[scalemodelworld]

I think it looks great in the pics - not sure why you seem disappointed. But as I learned from someone on this forum: every build is simply practice for the next build.

[Hayabusa]

Thanks, Troy. Well, perhaps being disappointed is bit exaggerated. It´s more like, when you build a model you know and see the things that didn´t turn out so good. Others may not see them, but you know where to look. A bit stupid, but still annoying.

You right about that - "practice for the next build"

[vintagedragfan]

I don't see a thing wrong, in fact I think it is awesome, you should be happy with it Stefan, nice work

[Jantrix]

I think a person who is a perfectionist will be ultimately unhappy with this hobby, period. I think you did a great job that would not look out of place on any contest table.

Well done.

[wrecker388]

Looks good.

[beeRS]

Looks really, really coool!

[Tony T]

That's a nice looking model!

[Rob McKee]

Very nice build Stefan. Nice and clean.