Does anybody make round headlight parts for MPC's Dodge Monaco CHP kit?

[ABC Auto Industry]

A couple of years ago, I bought an MPC 1977-78 Dodge Monaco CHP kit, and I was wondering if anyone made the single round headlight parts that would've been used for the 1975-76 Dodge Coronet, because I'm trying to backdate the kit to that, and the only such source I can find for those parts are the out-of-production MPC 1975 Plymouth Road Runner kits, which are prohibitively expensive.

[CapSat 6]

There was a conversion for these made about 20-30 years ago or more, from a company that I think was called Scale Squads. I think they were out of the NYC/ Long Island area. It was a grille/ headlight unit cast into a header panel, with the Plymouth single grille and round headlights, and an earlier bumper (unchromed) with no turn signal lights in it- basically a recast of the ‘75-‘76 MPC Fury Road Runner parts. It did not come with taillights. I remember seeing it reviewed in Car Modeler Magazine some time in the late 80’s or early 90’s. 

I don’t know of any current source for these parts. I haven’t seen the old conversion kit pop up for sale for quite some time. 

You might be able to carve the square headlights out of the ‘77-‘78 Monaco buckets and add large round headlights to them. I think the later Monaco grilles were the same as the ‘75-‘76 Coronet grilles. You might be able to fill the turn signals in the front bumper and repaint it with Revell Chrom or some other chrome paint, or if you prefer, look for a busted up built MPC ‘75-‘76 Road Runner to raid for the front end parts you need. 

I don’t think the MPC Monaco ever came with the correct taillights. For all I know, they might actually be the earlier style taillights anyway, so for talllights you might be on your own. 

It might be worth Round 2’s while to tool up a small sprue with new older style headlight buckets, front bumper and tall lights (and maybe a correct steering wheel, too) to breathe a little new life into this kit tool. 

[stavanzer]

There used to be an aftermarket company out of Spain, that did a Round Headlight conversion, But I don't know if they are still out there.

I found them by searching thru the links at the Rocketfin Car Links website.

https://www.rocketfin.com/model_car_links.html

You might look there.

[Rob Hall]

Missing Link used to make a '75-76 Fury sedan conversion with chromed grille and round headlights, don't know if they ever offered the headlights by themselves.

[Fabrux]

This set will be coming from LCP in the near future.

[ABC Auto Industry]

5 hours ago, Fabrux said:

This set will be coming from LCP in the near future.

Looks good! I can't wait!

[av405]

6 hours ago, Fabrux said:

This set will be coming from LCP in the near future.

What's LCP? An aftermarket company?

[Fabrux]

Luka Cee Products, available through andyshhq.com

[john sharisky]

8 hours ago, Fabrux said:

This set will be coming from LCP in the near future.

 

Still a Road Runner grille (with the bird emblem). I picked this up on eBay years ago.

 

[br67]

On 6/19/2024 at 1:15 AM, ABC Auto Industry said:

A couple of years ago, I bought an MPC 1977-78 Dodge Monaco CHP kit, and I was wondering if anyone made the single round headlight parts that would've been used for the 1975-76 Dodge Coronet, because I'm trying to backdate the kit to that, and the only such source I can find for those parts are the out-of-production MPC 1975 Plymouth Road Runner kits, which are prohibitively expensive.

There’s a set of headlamps and grille from an annual currently on eBay 

[ABC Auto Industry]

2 hours ago, br67 said:

There’s a set of headlamps and grille from an annual currently on eBay 

If it's the one I'm thinking of, then I just bought it.