Kit: Yodel Motorized 1978 Plymouth Fury Police 1/24 Scale
I found this great ’78 Plymouth Fury kit by Yodel. I couldn’t believe my eyes. The actually made a model of the same Sheriff car they used in most of Dukes of Hazzard. How lucky could I be!
After I got it home I discovered it was even cooler because it was wired for a motor and even had a switch built in. The battery I installed was long dead.
It looks like I did a patch job with the front suspension support. Did I try to jump this car at one time? I don’t think I did, but then again these poor cars did spend a pretty significant time in the air in the show so I might have tried.
Without the aid of computer graphics or anything I had to *gasp* hand-paint the Sheriff’s logo on both sides, which can be considered OK looking considering I was like 17 or something, but doesn’t hold up to my standards today. Also the lettering is simply rub-ons from those lettering sheets. At least I spelled everything correctly.
There’s not much to a cop car interior back in the day, no fancy computers or anything. Seats, dash, and a radio were pretty much it, but I think I captured the vinyl interior well and even got the color pretty correct. I even painted the headliner.
Not the greatest paint job.. but you have to love steerable wheels and a motor built into the kit.
Years after the other photos were taken, the car got taken apart for restoration. I then discovered the Joker/Goon Batman kit that had a MUCH better version of the car so this was abandoned and sent to the scrapper. R.I.P. Click HERE to view the second version of Rosco’s car!