Bel Geddes Airliner #4 Drawings

[jcf]

Jim Botaitis of JBot Decals has done a new set of drawings of the Bel
Geddes monster. 12 pages and free to download from his site:
http://www.jbot.ca/space/22an.shtml

[PR19_Kit]

That'd ONLY be 7.3 ft wing span in 1/144 scale.

I'd need a bigger shelf.....................

[zenrat]

So looking at what was on J-Bot decals site I came across their Dukes of Hazzard range which included this (I presume early promotional) photo.
It's a whiff!  Can you see why?

[PR19_Kit]

Ah sure can! 

That's a stock Charger as it has buttress sail panels, and the real General Lee was a '69 Charger 500 with flush rear windows.

[zenrat]

No.
The original MPC kit of the General Lee used the Charger 500 body with the flush rear window but all the cars used on the TV show were standard bodied '68 to '70 Chargers with the buttress sail panels.
I suspect the total number of Chargers destroyed during the shows seven season run was greater than the number of Charger 500s built.

[NARSES2]

I can't see passed Daisey 

[PR19_Kit]

No.
The original MPC kit of the General Lee used the Charger 500 body with the flush rear window but all the cars used on the TV show were standard bodied '68 to '70 Chargers with the buttress sail panels.
I suspect the total number of Chargers destroyed during the shows seven season run was greater than the number of Charger 500s built.

Ok, so why is it a Whiff then? It sure is a Charger.

[Nick]

No.
The original MPC kit of the General Lee used the Charger 500 body with the flush rear window but all the cars used on the TV show were standard bodied '68 to '70 Chargers with the buttress sail panels.
I suspect the total number of Chargers destroyed during the shows seven season run was greater than the number of Charger 500s built.

Ok, so why is it a Whiff then? It sure is a Charger.

The door is open. 

[Mossie]

Beat me to it!

[Captain Canada]

It was hard to look past Daisy, but ya the door lol. Car needed to be one solid block to survive the Good ol' Boys !

[PR19_Kit]

'cos they always got in and out through the window, NASCAR style?

[Mossie]

They were supposedly welded shut so it was the only way the boys could get in.

[zenrat]

Correct, the passenger door is open.
The "real" General Lee had the doors welded shut to strengthen the unibody construction.
IIRC the stunt cars had the doors welded shut but the No.1 car, the good one used for close ups, still had opening doors for convenience.

[PR19_Kit]

IIRC the stunt cars had the doors welded shut but the No.1 car, the good one used for close ups, still had opening doors for convenience.

But The Boys still got in through the windows anyway, right? 

[zenrat]

Maybe.  But not Uncle Jesse or on at least one occasion Boss Hogg.