Best Superbird or Daytona Charger Kit

[Horrorshow]

Looking to build either a Superbird or Daytona Charger NASCAR style…any advice on which manufacturer to choose?

[Fat Brian]

The Revell 69 Daytona is the best wing car kit out there. You'll need to do some work to get it into full race dress but it's probably the best start you'll get. A 1/25 stock car kit will need to give up its roll cage and other race goodies. This might take some some testing to find a kit with a cage close enough to the Daytona.

[CapSat 6]

22 minutes ago, Horrorshow said:

Looking to build either a Superbird or Daytona Charger NASCAR style…any advice on which manufacturer to choose?

For Daytonas- Revell, hands down. The MPC/ AMT kit needs a LOT of work to make it nice. The Revell kit was developed a lot more recently, is much better engineered and much more accurate. 

If you get the latest release (red car with #94 on the box), you get a nice selection of NASCAR parts with it. 

If you mean to build it like an old NASCAR competition car, it will still take a lot of work. It will be a significant project. You would need to come up with a full roll cage and front hoop, for starters, as well as suitable tires, wheels, body and chassis / suspension mods. I think the Randy Ayers NASCAR model car board has some tips or a tutorial out there, that can give you an idea of what you are in for. 

As far as Superbirds go, that’s a tough one. The Revell / Monogram Superbird is nice, but not ideal. It’s based on their GTX tool, dating from the early 80’s, so to me it has some proportion problems. Also it’s 1/24, so finding the right parts (or parts that will look good) might be a greater challenge. 

if I were to start fresh with a Superbird, I would buy the old Jo Han Petty Superbird. You get a lot of what you need for a NASCAR car right in the box, the body proportions are better, and it’s 1/25. They don’t seem to cost too much more than a current kit these days (depending). Even if you spend twice what a new kit costs for one, you’ll still be saving a bit on spare parts.

The one thing I don’t like about the Jo Han kit is that it has engraved markings on the nose to represent where to paint the stock headlight door decals. You would have to fill and sand them, which isn’t easy. Real Superbirds didn’t have those body lines like the Jo Han kit does. 

[Dave Van]

If you want a CUP racer and go with the Revell kit know that the inner wheel wells on the chassis will not take a CUP tire. So you need a different chassis or cut and replace the inner wheel wells. As stated the AMT version is more work but can be made into a good Cup car. For me I use a Polar Lights or Salvinos Dodge chassis under either one.....depends on how much work and cash you want to spend. 

A AMT/MPC Daytona was used on this build. Kit chassis used too. Built to look like a car set up for Talladega. Thx

 

[niteowl7710]

If this isn't a Priority 1 project, the current maker of all things NASCAR is eventually going to do a Superbird, perhaps within 2023.  Salvinos JR has quite the sum sunk into making the Mustang & Camry with all the associated licensing, but the better and faster those kits move the quicker SJR will be in position to proceed with more vintage era projects.

[jjsipes]

Here's one that I have started with. I'm using the Revell Daytona Charger kit with some of the ProModeler nascar pieces from the original release of this kit. Haven't started a Superbird yet but I have a couple of the Johan Petty Superbirds to use.

 

[Carmak]

It is my understanding that Salvinos JR has Nascar versions of both the Daytona and the Superbird in process. Might be worth the wait.

[R.J]

At the moment there is no Daytona in the works by Salvino's but a Superbird is, hopefully by the end of 2023.

[stavanzer]

Thanks sharing this. A new Superbird will be very nice.

[bigryan18]

Hopefully they get it right by not over engineering it tool up a better chassis that's better than the 2pc mess they call a chassis..