This was an old model car that I had built a long time ago. At the time, this was probably my most well built plastic model. Looking back I definitely see many areas of improvement. The kit was built straight from the box. The body was not prepared before being painted, no body filler, no primer. Just automotive lacquer and then automotive clear coat on top of the white plastic body. This model is from a time when I used to build these model car kits all the time. I remember this kit came with parts to build it in one of two ways, the stock '69 Challenger R/T with the "340 sixpack" or as I have built it the street rod version. If I was building this kit today, I'd probably build the stock vehicle.
This model kit has a pretty funny story to it, in high school for a bullshit project I handed this in, even though I had built the kit a long time prior to even then. The model was damaged from that event, parts had broken off etc, and had been sitting in a shoebox, broken since. Last night I finally took the car out and cleaned it up, took it apart, repainted the subframes, and rebuilt it. I dry brushed the subframe assemblies and the rear axle, and painted the gas tank and oil pan silver.
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