2010 Dodge Charger R/T Detective's Car

The Build
My newest project is one that I have designated a model year for...2010. There is no model year on the box and for all I know, this is a 2006 model. This has been in the stash for quite a while and I am building it for a Facebook site group build. I am using the Testors/Lincoln Mint Dodge Charger and my paint will be Dupli-Color Forest Green Pearl with a grey interior. I plan on adding some Police bits and pieces to the mix and a change of wheels from the Dodge Charger Police Car kit. I am including a McNally, Boston PI story called "For A Day".

The Story
It is around 1 AM in the morning and the young man drives his car slowly in a parking lot just across the street from Fenway Park in search for a parking spot close the baseball institution. Suddenly a car backs out of a space and the two cars collide creating minimal damage to either car. The young man gets out of his car to inspect the damage as the owner of the other car gets out of his and he is very angry. They both look at where the two cars hit each other and the owner of the second car reaches into his jacket and pulls a Walther PPK 9mm pistol and shoots the young man. The young man falls to the pavement dead and the man gets into his car and drives away.
At 5 AM, Lt. Det. Adam Troy gets up from bed and he goes into the shower to start his day. After he showers and towels off, his wife Natalie knocks on the door and presents his cellphone to his. Dispatch reports a body was found in a parking lot next to Fenway Park and night detectives are responding. Lt. Troy has Dispatch call Det. Darvell to respond to the scene.




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The Story
Lt. Det. Troy drives out to the parking lot across from Fenway Park and he gets out of the car and he inspects that there are plenty of detectives, the coroner and her assistant, the Crime Scene truck and crew. He hears a siren coming and he sees Det. Steven Darvell racing to a stop and getting out of his Detectives Car with his 32 ounce coffee travel mug, taking a drink out of it and then throwing the travel mug back into his car. No wonder this guy is a slob! One of the night detectives comes over with a wallet and hands it to the Lieutenant. lt. Det. Troy looks through it and he finds $32 in cash, two credit and one ATM card and a business card for someone he knows...McNally, Boston PI

The Build
I assembled the engine, transmission and painted a few other parts. Once I clean out the paint booth, I will start painting some of these parts with spray cans.




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The Story
Lt. Det. Troy pulls out his cellphone and he calls McNally and asks that he come down to the parking lot near Fenway Park to identify the corpse. Det. Darvell walks over to update the Lieutenant and he sees McNally's card in Shawn Whittaker's wallet and asks if Lt. Det. Troy had called him. Adam is getting upset with Det. Darvell's poor attitude towards McNally and tells him he should show more gratitude towards someone who has helped solve a few cases when Darvell couldn't. Darvell says that McNally has messed up a few cases which is not the truth and then Adam yells at him and he apologizes and he waddles away from the Lieutenant looking for more clues and he doesn't find any. A short while later and McNally arrives on the scene and he is ushered in.

The Build
One of the things I don't like about this kit and it varients is the transmission and the engine are two different items and they are mounted in the chassis that way. I added a piece of .020 inch thick styrene between the two and glued them together and place them in the chassis. A perfect fit!




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The Story

The Coroner opens the body bag and McNally looks at the face of the victim and he says he doesn't recognise him. Lt. Det. Troy says that he had his business card in his wallet. Maybe he got the business card from Attorney Charlotte Rothmann and he never got to contact McNally? McNally will ask her when he meets her for breakfast at the Comet Diner later in the morning. The Coroner zips up the bag and his assistant moves the body to the Coroner's Van for loading.
The victim is Shawn Whittaker from Alston, MA and he was reporting to Fenway Park for work helping with the cleanup. Why he was killed is now a complete mystery to the Police and they were just starting the investigation. McNally will ask Charlie about the business card that was found on the victim and Det. Darvell would be in charge of the investigation from this point on since Lt. Det. Troy has to get back to the Precinct for the Commander's Meeting.

The Build
At this point, the Hemi engine is complete. My guess is that the car would be a 3.5 Ltr. V6 powered car, but this kit has a 5.7 Ltr. Hemi. I've been painting other necessary parts including the chassis. The chassis will need to be painted with overspray.




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The Story
McNally arrives at the Comet Diner, a dining establishment built into an old trolley car that serve breakfast, lunch and dinner all day and he takes a booth up front by the windows. A short while later, Attorney Charlotte Rothmann aka Charlie arrives and she sits across from McNally and asks, "What's good?" Charlie always asks that question when she joins the Boston PI for breakfast. He asks her if she gave out an of his business cards lately and she says yes, to a Shawn Whittaker who was to ask him to investigate a traffic accident. McNally replies that Shawn was murdered the night before.

The Build
I washed the Charger this afternoon in prep for primer and paint.




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The Story
Det. Steven Darvell returns to Boston Police Headquarters. He waddles into the Homicide Squad Room and he clears his small desk of the empty coffee cups, candy wrappers, and a rotting bologna sandwich that he never finished eating, which is unusual in itself now that it sat on his desk for two days. He takes his trash can to empty it and when he returns; he sits down and opens a bag of donuts he picked up on the way in. The donut he pulls out is covered with a lot of powdered sugar and he takes bite out of it and the sugar falls all over the computer keyboard that he was trying to type on. Adam is watching him from his office and only shakes his head knowing that McNally is correct about Darvell, a waddling, talking slob.
He finds the mouse to his computer and finds an empty report to fill out. His best and fastest typing is the old hunt and peck method. This is going to take a while.

The Build
The chassis is mostly assembled. I just need to add the exhaust system and then do some touchups.




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The Story

McNally arrives home from his breakfast meeting with Attorney Charlotte Rothman. He parks the Super Bee in the driveway and goes into the house and upstairs to his bedroom to change into his work clothes so he can work on his old Plymouth ‘Cuda. An old t-shirt, jeans and sneakers and he is off to the garage with a bottle of water to work on the Dart. He unlocks the garage door and lifts the door over his head and walks inside and over to the bench where the Six Barrel carbs are sitting on the bench. He turns on the lights and picks up a screwdriver and finishes assembling one of the three carbs that go on the engine and he works on the carbs for several hours.
The old Plymouth ‘Cuda was a project for him and getting it running again was a requirement for McNally. The car had been between his garage and his friend Vic’s shop for some time and he wanted to get it running again. He had been working on the carbs for several hours when he hears someone coming up the driveway towards the garage. He kept a Smith & Wesson Model 36 .38 caliber revolver with a 3 inch barrel hidden on the bench top just in case of emergency, but it wasn’t needed today as it was only Det. Steven Darvell waddling up to the garage.
“McNally, you should post a sign on the front door telling people you are in the garage,” says Darvell walking into the garage.
“Detective, I don’t do that with the hope that they would just go away. What do you want?”
“You are going to introduce me to Alexander Cannon. Let’s go,” he says grabbing McNally’s arm.
McNally throws off Darvell’s hand and says, “Why should I introduce you to Cannon?”
“Because I said so,” Darvell says as he grabs McNally by the arm again.
Once again, McNally throws off Darvell’s hand, jumps off his workbench stool and grabs and twists Darvell’s arm behind his back and pushes him up against the ‘Cuda. Darvell rests his head against the roof of the ‘Cuda and sighs. McNally lets go of the over-weight detective and lets him turn around to face the Boston PI.
“What the Hell is the matter with you? You have never approached me like this before.”

The Build

I got the Charger into a coat of Dupli-Color grey primer in prep for the Dupli-Color Forest Green Pearl paint.




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Looking good so far

Thanks Dirk!

The Story
McNally tells Darvell to stay put and he walks out of the garage and he pulls out his cellphone and he calls Mr. Virden to set up a meeting with Alexander Cannon. Virden says to meet at Legal Seafood down by the dock at Boston Harbor at 1:30 PM for a quick meeting. This is where Cannon will be having lunch with his wife. McNally says thank you and he hangs up while he goes back to the garage and he tells Darvell to be on his best behavior and everything will be fine. McNally goes into the haouse to change clothes for his meeting with Cannon.

The Build
The chassis is 95% complete!




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The Story
McNally and Darvell drive down to Legal Seafood for the meeting with Alexander Cannon. As they approach, Virden and an associate get up and stop the two detectives. Virden says that Cannon has changed his mind and he will not meet with them today. McNally can tell that Darvell wants to bust some heads and he tries to calm him down. Cannon gets up from his table and walks over to them and he has them sit at a table away from away from other customers.
McNally asks about the Red Sox game last night and if Cannon saw anything about a young man being killed after the game. Cannon says no, but he will ask his friends who were at the game with him if they saw anything. Cannon asks if he could speak to McNally alone and McNally tells Darvell to wait for him by his car and Darvell gets up and he walks over to McNally's car and waits. Cannon asks why was Darvell with him and he tells Cannon that Darvell is trying to find his killer and he wasn't trying to entrap Cannon. He thinks for a moment and tells McNally that all is good and he thanks him for his time and he gets up and returns to his table and his wife.

The Build
Paint was flying tonight as I painted the body, interior and related parts.




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Nice work Mike..... I like that colour!!

Thanks Al! This is coming along rather nicely!

The Story
Darvell questions McNally about Cannon talking to him in private and McNally tells him that Cannon had asked about him. Darvell wants to knkow if Cannon is going to help him and McNally says that he thinks he will. Darvell goes wild and his erratic movements and gestures caught the attention of Mr. Virden and Cannon's body guards with McNally telling Darvell to get into the car and be quiet. They leave Legal Seafood and drive back to McNally's house and Darvell is quiet the whole way. At McNally's house, Darvell gets out of McNally's car and slams the door, lights his cigar stub and he gets into his Crown Victoria, slamming the door and he drives away.

The Build
I clearcoated the body, hood and front and rear panels with Testors Gloss Clearcoat Lacquer. Three coats of paint and three coats of clear. The clearcoat really brought out the color.




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The Story
Darvell drives back to the parking lot and the crime scene. He looks around on the pavement for any additional evidence and he finds nothing. He then looks at the light poles and surrounding buildings for any cameras and he notices several on the building across the street at a business called Fenway Collectibles and Memorabilia and he waddles across the street and he enters the store. He meets the owner and he asks about the cameras around the building. The cameras have been recording all the time and Darvell asks about one that is aimed towards the parking lot across the street.
The owner show Darvell to a back room and the recording equipment. The recorder is backed up to the time of the murder and the camera recorded the entire incident. Darvell wants the disc and the owner pops the disc out of the recorder and hands it to Darvell who writes a receipt on his notebook and tears ot out and gives it to the owner. Darvell races out of the store and back to BPD to view the disc.

The Build
I painted the interior, detailed it and assmbled the fronts seats and the console.




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The Story
Lt. Det. Troy observes Det. Darvell rushing into Homicide and he takes the disc in his pocket and inserts it into the D Drive of his computer and he watches the screen. Adam walks out from his office to Darvell's desk and he asks what he has found. Darvell points out the car in the video backing out and hitting Shawn Whittaker's car. Darvell wants to view the license plate of the car that hit Whittaker's but it was too small. He says that he has to take the disc down to Audio/Video Forensics to get an enhance picture of the plate.
He pops the disc out and he waddles out of Homicide to see if they can enhance the picture. Lt. Det. Troy likes to see Darvell working so hard. Maybe he is turning over a new leaf! He heard that Darvell is thinking of taking the Sergeants Exam.

The Build
I have assembled the interior and added a laptop computer and a two-way radio to the interior. I will add a power cord and an antenna cable to the back of the radio.

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The Story
Darvell rushes back to Homicide with pictures of the license plate from the mystery killer's car and the car belongs to Mr. Virden, Cannon's right hand man. Lt. Det. Troy calls the ADA for an arrest warrant for Virden and whne they do get the warrant, they drive out to Virden's condo to arrest him. Except, he wasn't there. They drive out to Brookline, MA to Cannon's house to see if he is there, but Virden hasn't been seen since lunch at Legal Seafood. When the cops leave Cannon's house, Cannon yells to find Viden NOW!

The Build
The interior is now complete, or so I thought. The laptop computer sits on top of the shifter and I have been thinking about creating a dash-mount shifter like the cop cars actually have. I have been slowly polishing the paint having finished the hood, roof and trunk lid. I still have to polish the sides. A mockup showed some resistance on the front, so I removed the fender mounts and sanded the fender lips with my Dremel and a sanding bit.




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The Story
Lt. Det. Troy decides to assign a couple of detectives to watch Virden's condo in case he shows up. He is determined to catch Virden tonight at the latest. He also decides to assign a couple of detectives to watch Cannon's house in Brookline since Cannon could go out to meet Virden or Virden would stop over at Cannon's house. In the meantime, Forensics has been reviewing the tape and printing out additional pictures of the crime scene with Virden getting out of his car and shooting Shawn Whittaker.

The Build
I have removed the steering wheel and column to drill a small hole for a shifter that I found in my parts box. The hole is big enough for the shift arm and in the center of the dash near the steering wheel.




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Looking good. I had no clue the shifters for these cars was on the dash. Nicely added detail

Yep! The Chargers started to have the shifters on the dash since the consoles installed were aftermarket and designed to house the necessary equipment for the car like lights and siren, computer and other pieces of kit.

The Story
It is 8:30 PM as Adam drives out to a crime scene in an alley. The blue lights flashing off the walls of the buildings gets brighter and brighter as he gets closer to the scene. He gets out of his Dodge Charger PPV Detective’s Car and clips his badge to the lapel of his jacket as he approaches the tape line being guarded by a patrol officer who lifts the tape for him.
“Evening, Lt. Troy,” says the officer.
“Evening, Off. Treagan,” Adam replies.
Adam walks towards the body lying on the ground with several officers and the Coroner standing next to the body. Det. Darvell looks up at Adam and he updates the Lieutenant.
“A 39 year old male, 5 ft. 11 inches tall, approximately 170 Lbs. Shot in the back of the head, execution style with a small caliber gun, possibly a .22. His name is Lucas Virden. Our murder suspect is now a murder victim.”
“I would guess this could be Cannon cleaning house. Call the Organized Crime Bureau and get them over here. They’ll want to look at this.”
“Yes, Lieutenant,” says Darvell.
Adam stands back and watches his people work the scene. The Coroner performing a preliminary inspection, other detectives looking around for clues and evidence, Darvell on his cellphone talking to someone in OCB. After a few minutes, he walks back over to Darvell who has since ended his phone call.
“I’m leaving this in your hands, Steve. I’m heading home.”
“Yes, Lieutenant. See you in the morning.”
Adam walks back to his Charger, gets in and starts the car and drives out of the alley.

The Build
I polished the Charger body and I burnt through some spots and decided to give the entire body another two coats of paint. Now for some detailing and assembly!




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The Story
McNally had gotten the ‘Cuda running again and he spent a considerable amount of time during the afternoon trying to fine tune the engine by ear as best as he can. He parks the car in the garage and locks the garage doors. In the house, he starts his dinner by placing a TV dinner in the microwave and heating it. After he eats, he sits down in his easy chair and watches TV with a cold beer in his hand. While he is watching TV, the doorbell rings and he gets up to answer it.
A large, well-dressed man is standing in the doorway.
“Can I help you,” asks the Boston PI
The man says, “I’m Damian Rockler. Mr. Cannon would like a word with you.”
“Sure,” replies the Boston PI.
McNally walks out of the house and off the porch to a white Mercedes-Benz S-Class Limo parked at the curb. Mr. Rockler opens the door and McNally gets into the car. Inside the car is Alexander Cannon reading the Wall St. Journal and smoking a cigar.
He puts the paper down and says, “McNally, Mr. Virden is no longer working for me. Mr. Rockler is my new assistant to call if you ever need anything from me.”
“Ok, Mr. Cannon. Thank you for the update.”
“Good night McNally.”
“Good night sir.”
McNally gets out of the Limo and Mr. Rockler gets into the car and the Limo drives away down the street.

The Build
The body and the chassis are now one. I have been adding emergency lights to the grille and on the rear package shelf behind the rear headrests.




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Nice work, Its funny how difficult and expensive these Charger kits have gotten. I have been trying to find one so I can do an NCIS car to add to my growing fleet of TV cars. Hopefully if we can ever get back to NNL East I will be able to find one

Someday soon, I hope! The only thing I really didn't like about this kit was the curvature of the windshield didn't match the body. I have broken several windshields and have resorted to using clear acetate or clear packaging to make one. I made an NCIS Charger R/T some years ago. I replaced the windshield in this one with clear packaging.

I thought you had, but I'll be damned if I can find the build. Thanks for the tip on the windscreen. Hopefully I remember that when I finally land this kit

No problem Dirk! That build was only on the old Scale Auto website if I remember correctly. It was built about 10 or so years ago.