All Pictures of this build here: http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b262/mkowa/Models/Other%20State%20and%20Highway%20Patrols/FHP%20Auctioned%202007%20Charger/
WOW, it' been about 10 months since I've been on this site and even on my Photobucket. Things have changed a bit, especially on P-bucket. I'd lost interest in the hobby shortly after Azmi (elbeik) went back home to Lebanon and KSA, had some medical issues which still affect my model building. What I used to do all day, now takes all day to do! 
I received an e mail from Bruce Bacon today inquiring: "Where have YOU been?" Basically, he got a fire burning under my butt and it made me come back up here to show a few of the builds I've done since last November- basically only 11 builds! Heck, I used to build 11 kits in less than a month!
This kit is the excellent Lindberg Charger SRT/8 of which I took liberty to build as an auctioned Florida Highway Patrol- marked slick-top Charger, complete with almost 5 years and over 100,000 miles of Florida sun/salt/weather and highway miles. I masked off the body and used Testors Laquer Wimbledon white for the white area of the vehicle and also gloss black for the black portions culminating in a semi-gloss clear overspray to all of the vehicle(except glass) for the dulling affect of weather. I then hands rubbed it to bring back SOME shine but not all. The chassis and tires received a coating of flat clear.
The interior sports a well worn drivers seat, seat padding that was heated and sagged to show the over 100K miles of a single driver. I also made various pieces to show the vehicle once had the computer terminal and shotgun mounting hardware along with associated wiring which I used various strands of guitar string in a tube that had been severed and taped. I also The base plates are left in the vehicle at times when as sometimes it is necessary when various holes holes are cut. This includes holes in the package shelf for various rear lights and also on the trunklid where rubber grommets are used to fill holes for antenna and GPS when they are take out.
Here is the interior with floor plates and wiring: 
The rear deck : 
Back when the Charger was being billed as a possible Police Package but not yet improvised as a complete package, agencies were given or purchased various cars without actual Police Package equipment- basically building there own from MOPAR stock. I set this car as a Pre-Package delivery of a Charger SRT/8 (big Hemi) vs the the 5.7 that is utilized in the actual Police Package available to agencies during this time period. The actual Police Package cars had no console shifter, the shifter being moved to the instrument panel by the wheel. I built this as a console mounted unit as many cars were utilized beofr the actual package became available. Whether Florida Highway Patrol ACTUALLY recieved a vehicle such as this...well that's my artistic license as that shows in the underhood area. The 392 Hemi (not a 5.7 in this case which the package utilizes) sports a Granetelli throttle body with custom air inlet for the working hood scoop. It also sports a Tower brace system, items that would NOT have been utilized on a period vehicle BUT that a Trooper may have outfitted himself. When I was a cop, we would do that all of the time just not let the administration know about it and have the hush-hush about it with a few 6 packs of beer!
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