Kit: MPC ERTL Dodge Stealth
This is one of those second time around kits. I built a very nice red/tan version of this car before but gave it away as a present.
At the time there was a great modern Smokey & the Bandit TV knock-off “Bandit” The hero drove a black Dodge Stealth and I loved it! They were also in the pilot of the Viper TV series. It doesn’t get any more 90s than that.
The suspension was built by cutting out the middle portions of the struts and gluing a piece of pen spring where the spring was. The top part glued into the inside of the wheel well, and the bottom part attached to a flexible piece of styrene. I remember doing jumps with the first model before I gave it away.
The engine and interior were pretty basic, and I wished I had added a bit more detail but it all fit together quite well.
It has an engine. Is that in sideways? Nobody likes working on sideways engines.
The glass on this model was excessively thick in my opinion but it fit and I didn’t exactly plan to replace it for kicks.
One oddity to note is the license plate which says STEALTH. I didn’t notice it until just now, but they are the same vintage as the OUTATIME plate from Back to the Future from the mid-80’s with tags expiring in 1985. Weird.
I still have this model on display some 20+ years later. Rad.