Dragon 1/6 Jeep. No engine? Yikes!!

Jul 05, 2013 2 Replies

Big cavernous engine bay and no engine. I genuinely feel cheated. I bought it at quite a discount at a monthly meeting, The folks were selling a deacased relative's kits and the money was going to help the teenage boy with scouting or some other activity. So I omly looked to see that the bags were sealed.



My understanding is that Dragon made an engine, but released it only very briefly as a show perk at DX08.



Anyway, so far I heard about someone in Europe who claimed to have a Go Devil but some reviews say it's completely wrong.



I found something called Liberty classic who makes metal display 1/6 engines, but they seem to make mostly race engines.



Hawk makes a 1/6 flathead V8. I'm thinking that if scratchbuilding is the way to go, I wonder if that would be a reasonable starting place?



Or if someone has another suggestion?


The WW2 Jeep had a straight 4, not a V8, so I'm going to guess that you'd need to scratch a donk for your kit. There's lots of references available online, and 1:1 Jeeps aren't terribly hard to find, so getting the details right shouldn't be a major drama. Good luck with it. :)

Try here for a start.

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RobG (the Aussie one)

A Ford flat head 4 cylinder engine , the same one as the A model Ford . Friend of mine has two 1942 Jeeps( Ford Manufacture) and a lifetime supply of engines .

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