71 daytona clone

[moparfied]

Hey 4Q I hear ya about the clone thing. Those cars were built from actual Chrysler wind tunnel models,and those guys not only built the cars by looking at the pictures. The lady said that the guy who fabricated the aero parts,actually used a micrometer.and a slide rule to measure the pictures,and so he could build them to the exact scale that they would have been if the wind tunnel models would have been full size cars. She said that this guy is an engineer/machinist,and was a stickler for details. She said,he would only build the cars if they were acurate. I talked to her for a long time. So long I was starting to think she was feeling uncomfortable about it. But she was really nice,and answered all my questions about the cars. I never seen a girl that was so into cars. She even had pictures of her doing mechanical,and body work on the cars,how cool is that!

[myrt70]

I doubt she would have felt so uncomfortable,if you were not latched on to her thigh!  I hope your not one those guys at the shows,that never goes away! Just kidding.

[Ghoste]

Especially since the guy she was talking about is her husband and he likely wasn't too far away at the time.

[moparfied]

You got me,youguys are onto me,I admit it,I am the imfamous car show stalker! You know what they said about the dog scruffy in the movie airplane!

[mikepmcs]

i named my dog scruffy cause of that movie.

you ever been in a turkish prison?

[moparfied]

No just a Turkish bath house,but that only happened,because of my drinking problem!

[myrt70]

That just aint right,its like peewee at the movies!

[moparfied]

Lets get back to the cars,enough about my unusual behavior! I wonder what they are going to build next.

[tan top]

looks good to me , i wonder how fast the G series wing cars would of run at Talladega,

[hotrod98]

Sometimes I think it's difficult for the conventional wing car guys to admit just how nice the 3rd gen style wing cars look. As soon as my bird clone and daytona clone are finished, I'm going to make an extra daytona nose and alter it to fit my 74 charger hardtop car. We plan to alter a wing for it as well. If I like the way they turn out, we may make a set of molds for them. We've also come up with a way to convert the 73-74 doors to look like the 71 r/t doors. With that mod plus the side markers filled in, it might make a pretty nice looking car.

[myrt70]

All the cars that the Dayclona guys have built,are over the top. The thing that makes the 3rd generation wingcars so cool,is that Chrysler probably would have built them if Nascar had not pulled the plug. That watermelon recreation,and that convertible Charger,showed what those guys are capable of doing with the second generation cars too. I would like to see what they come up with next.

[nitrometal]

Thanks for posting all of those pictures.  I had only seen one before and it wasn't very clear.  I really like the way they look.

[Big Kahuna]

My daily driver is a 78 Dodge Magnum -- which kinda-sorta (see www.magnumgt.com for the Charger/Magnum story) replaced the Charger. I've always wanted to put a wing and nose on it.




I suspect someday I will.

[moparfied]

I thought they already made a Charger Daytona version of that car BK

[hotrod98]

My daily driver is a 78 Dodge Magnum -- which kinda-sorta (see www.magnumgt.com for the Charger/Magnum story) replaced the Charger. I've always wanted to put a wing and nose on it.




I suspect someday I will.

BK,
I would love to see a wing car version of your car. We need someone to photochop that bad boy just to see what it would look like.

[mikepmcs]

crap BK, that's a nice ride.  I saw one on ebay a while ago and almost had to have it.  I love those cars and yours is mint!!!

[Big Kahuna]

I thought they already made a Charger Daytona version of that car BK

The made one of the 77 Charger -- but it didn't have a nose or a wing

[moparfied]

There was a guy around here that had one of those 77 Charger Daytonas,thats why I brought it up. I saw the car in a junkyard about two years ago. It was not in bad shape until they manhandled it with the forklift! That would be the car to build an aero car from,they already gave it the name!

[Big Kahuna]

While true, in 79 Car Craft  riend to make the Magnum an aero car. They had Mancini build it and then gave it away. That, and the Magnum's nose, and because I'm a Magnum fan (I have five of them), and my first new car was a Magnum -- makes it perfect for me.

http://www.magnumgt.com/



http://www.magnumgt.com/carcraft.htm


Plus the King raced one (although quite honestly he hated it and went to Olds and Chevy in late 78.




Buddy Arrington, Neil Bonnett, Kyle Petty, and Marty Robbins also ran the Magnums

[Big Kahuna]

I screwed up and posted the 81 Imperial of Buddy Arrington -- but he did run a Magnum before that

[moparfied]

BK There was a guy in my neighbor hood who had a Magnum GT,it had a factory rear spoiler,fender flares,and T Tops. It was metallic brown,with white GT graphics on it.

[Big Kahuna]

I have an original GT with the E-58 motor






I'm pretty sure the spoiler was aftermarket and the stripes came in the trunk and applied by the dealer based on the customer preferences. Most didn't have them. There were even a few that had fender flare deletes.

[moparfied]

The GT that I was talking about was a brand new car,when I first saw it,ang the GT stripes were also on the spoiler. Those Magnums are nice cars, they are one of the Mopars that I always wanted to own,but never have.

[mikepmcs]

i really want one of those cars now, i gotta have one, that thing is MINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the always rare 4 metal salute

i hijacked the thread, sorry! back to our regular scheduled program, my bad!