General Lee rear window question

[The Hooded Claw]

OK during a general chat Sunday Lee told me that the rear window of the AMT GL kit was wrong for the real thing. So my question is, is the red one of the left a better match.

THC

[Harley]

Interesting question Mr Claw.

Y'see the real General Lee was a 69 Charger (as any fule kno) but, for some reason, AMT's first version of the car used a '68 body - which didn't have the "flying buttresses" around the rear window.

When the time came to re-pop it AMT either dug out the tooling for the correct body, or modified the '68 tooling, so the current kit has the correct rear window for a '69 body. Can't comment on how accurate the rest of the body is though.

Or, to put it another IMHO the white body in the photo is correct for a TV version General Lee.

Anorak footnote: When Airfix released the General Lee under their own name (using borrowed tooling) it had the correct '69 body in it. Whether they got sent the tooling for a '69 Charger by mistake or not is anyone's guess but for years it was the only 100% accurate General Lee kit you could buy.

[skidsolo]

The white body is indeed the correct choice for a General Lee. The red one is in fact a Charger 500 shell if I'm not mistaken. Produced for NASCAR homologation.

Also, If I'm not mistaken, the 68 Charger did have the flying buttress rear window.

[Harley]

You learn something new every day, my learned colleague is quite correct: the non-buttress body is the 500 shell not a 68 body.

Either way, the white body needs the doors welding shut and painted Hemi orange as soon as possible1

[The Hooded Claw]

Thank you for the clarification chaps.

The white body is the current AMT GL body the Red one is the body from their '69 Dodge Daytona. Both are pretty poor if we are totally honest.

THC

[Lee Croden]

i was wrong....sorry