1969 Dodge Charger Convertible

[Joe Handley]

After nearly 5 long years, the car is finally done!

 

 

I was concerned that the blue was going to overpower everything with the bumpers being body color, but after painting the grill and tail light panel then adding the bright work, that concern was unfounded. 

[Hard_2_Handle_454]

Good conversion.  I had that idea a long time ago, but never got around to it.  The kit prices went up and I had other kits I wanted for the collection.  Maybe one day I'll get to build one too.

[michelle]

nice work
i made a 69 charger 500 convertible earlier this year i to painted it blue 

[spencer1984]

Nice job on this!

[Joe Handley]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate it!

[Joe Handley]

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Edited December 31, 2023 by Joe Handley
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[TooOld]

Excellent work !  Interesting idea . . . I bet they would have sold a bunch of them !

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Joe Handley]

3 hours ago, TooOld said:

Excellent work !  Interesting idea . . . I bet they would have sold a bunch of them !

Thanks!

Dad and I were looking at it after I had it in primer and both came to the conclusion that this looked like it would have looked great in full sized and would have sold well.  I’m just wondering that since Chrysler and AMC were the smaller of the 4 domestic companies then, if they would afford to engineer then produce this as a drop top, as well as the Coronet and Satellite/RoadRunner/GTX all at the same time. That said, this could have stolen a lot of sales from the other B-Body convertibles had they actually built it, maybe even some of the bigger C-Body convertibles too.

Edited December 31, 2023 by Joe Handley

[crazyjim]

Looking good.

[slusher]

Looks great!

[ncbuckeye67]

That is a very clean build! I love the blue, especially on the bumpers. I did one years ago with an MPC Daytona kit, but my homemade boot cover looks like a 5-year-old made it compared to yours.

[Joe Handley]

14 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said:

That is a very clean build! I love the blue, especially on the bumpers. I did one years ago with an MPC Daytona kit, but my homemade boot cover looks like a 5-year-old made it compared to yours.

Thanks!

I found someone who was repopping the boot from the original issue of the MPC ’68 Coronet R/T when I first started this build and bought that, same with the Recall Wheels, they’re repops from the MPC ‘68 Barracuda kit that were bought about the same time.

[Yeah Nah]

Love that colour! Nice conversion work too.

[ncbuckeye67]

6 hours ago, Joe Handley said:

Thanks!

I found someone who was repopping the boot from the original issue of the MPC ’68 Coronet R/T when I first started this build and bought that, same with the Recall Wheels, they’re repops from the MPC ‘68 Barracuda kit that were bought about the same time.

Now that the Coronet is out, I may have to revisit that one, Lol.

[Joe Handley]

7 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said:

Now that the Coronet is out, I may have to revisit that one, Lol.

It’s funny how when I started this build 5 years ago, I had to get resin repops of those parts and now the Coronet is back on the shelves and the Barracuda will be soon too.

[6bblbird]

Very nice! I saw a 1:1 Charger convertible at Carlisle this past summer. It seemed like Chrysler missed the boat by not making these. 

WF

[Joe Handley]

2 hours ago, 6bblbird said:

Very nice! I saw a 1:1 Charger convertible at Carlisle this past summer. It seemed like Chrysler missed the boat by not making these. 

WF

I had seen pics of the converted cars and read that they just reskinned Coronets convertibles for the Charger Convertibles that are out there now, that’s where I got the idea to use the resin repop boot from the MPC ‘68 Coronet annual for this!

[Slotto]

Super clean

[ncbuckeye67]

20 hours ago, Joe Handley said:

It’s funny how when I started this build 5 years ago, I had to get resin repops of those parts and now the Coronet is back on the shelves and the Barracuda will be soon too.

Yeah that's my least favorite Cuda body style, but the more I look at it, I may just have to get one. 

[Rattlecan Dan]

That's pretty cool. Nice job. Happy New Year.

[Joe Handley]

9 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said:

Yeah that's my least favorite Cuda body style, but the more I look at it, I may just have to get one. 

I have one that I bought through the club raffle a year or two ago that was an 80’s issue, but may buy another too.

[ncbuckeye67]

There's a former car dealership (1930's -40's??) in my town that has a  gold 69 'Cuda (along with a few other goodies). Keep forgetting to get a pic though.

[ChrisR]

Nice!