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Yes it is a Johnny Lightning Nova SS. I modified the hood but didn't alter the fenders. It was yellow so I scuffed up the paint making it easy to cover with a few coats of semi-flat black. This way the original paint becomes the primer. As long as the original color is lighter than the new .....no worries. I used to strip them bare but not any more. I covered the front grill and rear bumper and lights with a little "Vasaline" and rubbed it off after painting so they remained the original colors and detail. I remember hearing about guys putting "Vasaline" on their tires before painting their rims on 1:1 cars. I wanted to try this in smaller scale and it actually worked! The rims are from a different JL car that matched the movie car better. The little duck on the hood is just a filed down head of a pin. The little duck is way too small in this scale but I didn't want to leave it out completely.

The Charger started a one of those inexpensive Maisto cars but the proportions looked pretty good. I changed the wheels and raised the height of the car a little to better match the movie car. I kind of liked the blacked out windows too. The skull and crossbones for the hoods were made by printing the pattern onto white addressing labels. The stickers actually covers the whole hood. The sticker was sprayed with Krylon "Preserve It" and them a shot of Testors "dull coat" before applying. The results matched the semi-flat black pretty good. To finish everything off each car gets its own little case with photo of the real car in the background.