Another AFX car?, Oh why not. The Paper Tiger Plymouth

[gtx6970]

With only a few minor setbacks and maybe even some squinting of the old eyes 

The Injected hemi , Is done

 

I'm using some  photos of the restored Paper Tiger II car for some kind of clear reference.

 

 

 

Edited July 30 by gtx6970

[Brutalform]

Nice job on the engine details. Coming together nicely. I can’t tell from the pics, but did you include those two small injector rods? 

[gtx6970]

3 minutes ago, Brutalform said:

Nice job on the engine details. Coming together nicely. I can’t tell from the pics, but did you include those two small injector rods? 

The long one is on it

 

The short one...I broke. Can't really see it.

So not gonna worry about it

[Brutalform]

4 minutes ago, gtx6970 said:

The long one is on it

 

The short one...I broke. Can't really see it.

So not gonna worry about it

I finally figured out how to put them on so they look decent. My first couple AWB cars don’t  have them. They either broke while cleaning them up, or I just left them off. 

[Brutalform]

Actually this Lee Smith car I’m working on will be the first to have them. 

[gtx6970]

my 1st one doesnt have them .

 

This one and my Bud Faubel car are the only ones and they ea only have the longer one.

[Brutalform]

Those little parts definitely try my eyesight and patience. 

[gtx6970]

If it wasnt for my lighted magnifier, I would be dead in the water

[papajohn97]

Thanks for posting this excellent WIP Bill, cool to see so many other guys here share our love of these 60's door slammers. So far your S&M Paper Tiger is coming out sweet! Kudos to Moebius for issuing these AWB Mopar A/FX kits, hoping someday they produce an accurate Holman & Moody '65 A/FX Mustang (with that beautiful 427 cammer from their Comet kit so that's a few less mold cavities they'd have to EDM!)

On 7/28/2025 at 8:24 PM, gtx6970 said:

Now to figure how Hilborn injection is plumbed.

If anyone has hints, tips or a diagram. I'm all ears.

I attempted to include 0.5 mm solder wire fuel lines on my S&M Paper Tiger build two years ago with less than perfect results (hard to see much down between those velocity stacks). In hindsight, it was probably not worth the frustration....

I used this image I found on the web for a reference (sorry, can't recall the source).

Hope this helps!

Correction: Ooops! Look's like my ref. pic above is late! I just saw your fuel line plumbing after I posted the above, it looks fabulous!!!!

Edited July 30 by papajohn97
Correction

[gtx6970]

42 minutes ago, papajohn97 said:

Thanks for posting this excellent WIP Bill, cool to see so many other guys here share our love of these 60's door slammers. So far your S&M Paper Tiger is coming out sweet! Kudos to Moebius for issuing these AWB Mopar A/FX kits, hoping someday they produce an accurate Holman & Moody '65 A/FX Mustang (with that beautiful 427 cammer from their Comet kit so that's a few less mold cavities they'd have to EDM!)

I attempted to include 0.5 mm solder wire fuel lines on my S&M Paper Tiger build two years ago with less than perfect results (hard to see much down between those velocity stacks). In hindsight, it was probably not worth the frustration....

I used this image I found on the web for a reference (sorry, can't recall the source).

Hope this helps!

Correction: Ooops! Look's like my ref. pic above is late! I just saw your fuel line plumbing after I posted the above, it looks fabulous!!!!

many Many  thanks 

 

Mine looks ok.  I'm happy with it I guess. In all the pictures I could find the fuel lines on an injected hemi were outside the tube stacks . So that show it did it. Once this engine goes in the body. I'll finish the lines to the tank and pump and call it done.. I have all the major assys done, waiting on a new Slixx decal sheet ( my Fred cady sheet is old and I wanted a backup here as a just in case )  Then I can knock this one across the finish line. 

 

I would excitedly second the idea of an AFX Mustang kit.  

I started one of the Gas Rhonda car many years ago. Got as far as a kinda sorta done stretched and painted body - chassis . Then got frustrated when I couldnt get the hood right. SO boxed it up and that's where it is today. maybe 15 or so years later.

[Shark]

As for the Mustang AFX, MCW made one awhile back that was a nice complete kit. If enough people contact them, they may make some new molds.

[gtx6970]

6 hours ago, Shark said:

As for the Mustang AFX, MCW made one awhile back that was a nice complete kit. If enough people contact them, they may make some new molds.

Speed city resin made one as well.

 

I myself would much prefer a stryene kit.

 

 

[bytownshaker]

The round decal is definitely the United States Drag Team decal and you can find one on the AMT Don Garlit's WYNN'S Jammer kit

 

[gtx6970]

Much thanks for the confirmation

 

I 'THINK' the decal is on the Cady sheet I have for this car 

 

Need to double ck before I go looking 

[gtx6970]

All Slixx - Decals are on.

So far zero issues. This one might just make it out exactly like I want it to 

 

Edit, Champion decals have been removed. Seems should have one or the other. Not both

Edited 18 hours ago by gtx6970

[Brutalform]

Decals and paint look great. It’s nice when a build comes together exactly as planned. Nice job so far. 

[gtx6970]

18 hours ago, Brutalform said:

Decals and paint look great. It’s nice when a build comes together exactly as planned. Nice job so far. 

Thanks

 

Its the details 

Little things, Like the routing of the brake line.

Brass colored radiator tank.

The actual car didn't have the panel behind the grill that holds the hood latch panel, So I removed it on the kit. Leaves room to locate the fuel tank to the ft side like the 1 / 1 had 

Thought about making the panel under the injectors to seal it to the hood, But gave up on that idea pretty quick.

Had I thought I was going to get this far into it. I would have ground the molded in firewall wiring off, and made my own. I like how Steve Guthmiller makes his

 

* Notice the actual car appears to have had a chrome bumper. I'm told it was aluminum. Not painted fiberglass like some of them had.

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by gtx6970

[Shark]

I think that panel under the injectors was a short lived experiment. Seen several photos of the hood with a hole in the scoop and the injectors nearly flush with the top of it. I believe you said one time about these cars changing all the time.

[gtx6970]

4 hours ago, Shark said:

I think that panel under the injectors was a short lived experiment. Seen several photos of the hood with a hole in the scoop and the injectors nearly flush with the top of it. I believe you said one time about these cars changing all the time.

The only way I could see making it . Was once the tubes are cut.

Make the seal plate and then reattach the tubes on top. 

I just wasn't that motivated to do it.

 

But...I'm getting closer by the day

Engine is in for final time

All fuel lines are plumbed in. 

And interior is done.

Wheels are done. Kit versions for the ft. Revell '67 GTX supplied the rear wheels / tires

 

On to final assy .

 

Edited 8 hours ago by gtx6970

[M W Elky]

41 minutes ago, gtx6970 said:

The only way I could see making it . Was once the tubes are cut.

Make the seal plate and then reattach the tubes on top. 

I just wasn't that motivated to do it.

 

But...I'm getting closer by the day

Engine is in for final time

All fuel lines are plumbed in. 

And interior is done.

 

On to final assy .

 

I had also toyed with making the injector seal plate by flipping over the kit supplied oval air cleaner after cutting the injector stacks then attaching the top part of the velocity stacks to the flipped air cleaner after cutting. I’m kinda kicking around the idea of going back and doing it . 

Am I the only one who’s kinda miffed that they couldn’t include two sets of stacks . I have big fingers and find them a real pain in the rear to glue back together let alone getting them all cut straight and to the right length.