Moebius AWB Mopar Assembly Line - Strickler's Car

[papajohn97]

This the first of the new Moebius '65 Dodge AWB A/FX cars that I built using the box decals. I used two resin Holley Carbs in place of the kit Hilborn FI to depict an earlier version of this car. I thought I this build would be a "dry-run" of this new Dodge kit but I made mistakes on the other three I subsequently built so sometimes one kits enough! Moebius did a great job on these AWB Dodges but I think the AWB Plymouth is like 10% easier to assemble. I found the chassis to body fit at the rear was really tight and took some finesse and tweezer crow bars to get positioned correctly. I used Gopher four point racing harnesses on all five builds but only on the drivers seat, conventional seal belts on the passenger side. I replaced the thick fuzzy belt material that came with the Gopher belts with finer adhesive-backed fabric from Scale Motorsports. The stainless steel Gopher photoetch was challenging to remove to the frets.

[bondo bill]

another fine build