69' Dodge Charger

Tim Heimer
Anyone remember this movie?

Chris Greathouse
I wasn't even born yet and I remember that movie 😄 Dukes forever!

Tim Heimer
Sorry it's even older than that! I've already done the Dukes 1/16 car. It's a Peter Fonda movie.

Chris Greathouse
Are you doing the green with racing stripe?

Tim Heimer
Yes as the car goes but the color is citron yella, which is like a green/yellow mix.

Chris Greathouse
Kind of like the lime-green on my eclipse.... It was trippy to spray.

Chris Greathouse
Just watched the movie. Good stuff! and Susan George is looking fly in those denims😉

Tim Heimer
Both her and Daisey were hot!

Munkyslut
Susan George was a bit of a looker in her day, that was a good film. The Charger was the star though, even Fonda can't upstage a Mopar 😉
The train wreck ending is brutal!

Tim Heimer
I somehow knew you would know this! LOL! Testing paint mix today for it.

Munkyslut
I'm watching carefully Tim, I'm a big fan of the big scales, can't wait to see what you do with it

Bob Hall
Awesome Movie !

imdb.com/title/tt007..ivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

Tim Heimer
Just posted picks on the F&F charger

Munkyslut
Pretty close on the colour Chris, that Charger was painted Curious Yellow by Chrysler for the production company.
That's more 'curious' in reality cos that's a 71 year only colour & the Charger is a 68!

Bob Hall
The famous getaway car featured in the film is a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T with a 440 cubic inch V-8 engine. For muscle car buffs, the color of the Charger is Sublime Green. The same color for Plymouth was called Lime Light. The black stripe on the side of the car is NOT a "factory" racing stripe (rather one painted on by the crew), and the wheels are classic "American Racing" brand wheels.

Tim Heimer
Bob, the technical color is Citron yella, like Munky said it was a 70''s color used by the production company for the movie. Now there has been a lot of debate on this due to the filming of it and how the color shows, also they used many different cars in the movie where it switches from a RT to a regular charger and for the scene where the cop taps their door it's a 68 not 69 charger! LOL!

Bob Hall
I was Just copy paste from the production notes, click on the link. Ask me, it's Baby Turd yellow ! some of those 60's 70's colors were funky at best, like Ford Phoenishien Yellow And Grabber "anything" LOL.

Munkyslut
Bobs right with Baby Turd haaahahaha!!! & the Ford colours, Grabber "anything" is about right 😉

Tim Heimer
Some of those colors are making a come back lately!

Bob Hall
I know ! It makes seeing them easier to see and pull over, I've given dozens of tickets to the lead footed folks of Texas !

Donald Dickson II
In on this one.

Tim Heimer
LOL Bob! I'm staying out of Texas now that I know you're out there! LOL

Chris Parsons
Best... maybe weirdest part was how the charger ran all through the move and turned into a Torino the instant it hit the train!

Tim Heimer
Not the pictures I have. I know on Vanishing point when it hit the bulldozers it turn into another car. In fact I read how they did the train scene with pulleys and a cable under the tracks to get the shot. They did screw up and used a 68 for a chase scene. Check this out imdb.com/title/tt007..ivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Although there is a debate on weather it was Citron yella or Sublime green.

Bob Hall
Yeah ! Vanishing Point it was a Camaro at the end, Not sure about the Torino.

Tim Heimer
O.k there's the pic of the train crash, That my friends is a charger.

Tim Heimer
O.k added damaged charger pic. Do it, or leave it stock? After doing the Nomad I'm on the fence as to which way to go. Help

Munkyslut
Considering your success with the 55 I'd say yes go for it!
That would be very cool😎

Tim Heimer
10/31/20 update: Well I finally started back up on this, started putting the finishing details on the Dio as well as the car. THEN ....it came to putting the decals on the car! So I'm eyeing up the placement thinking to myself this looks off, so I recheck the decals and they measure up, so I'm like oh, O.K. I just need to fiddy with them a little, it would be close but should work, so I then proceeded to put the rear section on. THEN I rechecked everything with the 2nd half of the decal to find out the front fender well is raised so high that the decal won't come close to fitting right!! With the D.OH & The F&F chargers I didn't have to worry about putting a straight line down the side! Round 2 has SCREWED me again! as much as I did myself for assuming! This sucks because I had to mix that color myself, twice and wasted a lot of paint and time. So correcting the high fender well just ain't going to happen!

Nigel Chapman
Wow Tim, this takes me back to my younger years with both the kit and movie.
I remember building the original kit. Those front fenders never looked right, the top was too rounded, probably to accommodate the wheels and tyres so they could steer.
Proudest moment was using a piece of wire with a lump of Milliput to create a CB antenna !
I know it's damage limitation, but Can the fenders be modified to look right ?

Munkyslut
Just a thought Tim........ can you paint the stripe on?
As memory serves it's a fairly simple gloss black stripe sitting directly on the upper edge of the belt line, ncreasing by just a few degrees to the rear.

Tim Heimer
Nigel, you have an interesting thought for the reason in which now I will have to investigate! I know the vertical part was slightly raised that I flattened on all 3 cars, the side I left alone for some odd reason. Munky it wouldn't matter if it was painted on or not, the distance from the top of the fender to the wheel well is too thin. If you look at the pic above you can see the stripe above the well, the problem I have is the stripe goes through the wheel well. It's like 6-8mm too high for the stripe to be straight.

Munkyslut
Ahh sorry Tim I totally got the wrong idea from your last post......... I thought it was the decals that were at fault......... I don't know what I was thinking, I gotta stop sniffing this Ajax 😄

Bob Hall
This should distract you from your little situation, look who made number 4, and a lot of these I don't think I've ever heard of !

Youtube Video

Tim Heimer
Munky, it's the glue fumes not Ajax! LOL! Mr. Bob, you come up with the most interesting stuff! I knew about half of those. The horror 10 was cool too!

wilky
I recommend Running on Empty or whatever it was called in the States.
It's the second best movie after Mad Max ever made

Tim Heimer
It looked like a good one to see!

Nigel Chapman
Good selection, I've seen 4 of the films. If you want something more modern try Taxi 1 & 2 by Luc Besson - proper stunts with real cars