A slant six[:D]
Lol. From what I find no definitive engine was mentioned, but sinc the Dukes had a history in NASCAR, it would make sense a Hemi wou be a obvious choice. But it doesn’t really matter, build it your way!
Whoa… heres a General Lee and underneath the body was a crown Victoria
https://www.motor1.com/news/185184/general-lee-charger-ford-crown-victoria/
Were the door weld mark’s visible from the outside? And did the General have side windows?
No to the welds and no idea on the Windows.
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If I remember correctly there were something like 365 Chargers used and destroyed during the course of the show.
The “hero car” was Hugger orange with a tan interior.
Some reference.
Hey Compressorman - I got my kit a couple days ago. Here’s the sprueshots. It’s a complete kit with a couple of options. Based on the valve covers I believe it’s a hemi. One of the intake manifolds looks like it had mold issues so that removes one of the options.
When I saw the box, I thought, “Uh-oh, that has the Charger 500 body”, but zooming in, it looks like the correct roof line. Nice!
Did I every show you guys my Charger? 760 RWHP on the race tune with Q16 race fuel.
Holy cow [:D] Maybe you should paint that orange too!!
John, are those the correct wheels? They seem to have more spokes than most of the ‘real’ Generals that I have seen. But even those vary. I like the BIG Mpc kit but it may be just a little too big.
Chris
John, where did you get that? I haven’t seen an MPC box in decades, just looking at the pic gave me chills from the flood of memories.
Cool Charger, BTW. That’s a bunch of horsepower. Yikes.
The wheels are not perfect but they work. I see they corrected the body, that’s cool. The 1/16 scale kit while it has a accureate body, the chassis is a stock car chassis and not accurate for a street car. IIRC the interior is stock car as well.
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Greg, based on some advice here and a little research I determined this was the best kit. I found it on Ebay. Theres a bunch available.
I’ll be darned. Thank you.
You could use the chassis from AMTs 68-69 Roadrunner/GTX kitsif you want better detail.
Yee-haw! Scored an Eckler Corvette partial kit (includes the rims which are correct for the General) on ebay. Also poked around and found Roscoe P. Coltranes police cruiser for 11.99 and free shipping - will make a nice pair on the shelf!
Nice score, John. [Y]