“BUILDING THE COVERS “vol #5 Malcolm Durham’s 1965 awb chevelle

[M W Elky]

Yes, I know it’s like the third awb chevelle post in a row, but they all have different wheel well relocations. This is my all time favorite Malcolm Durham car. For me the injected altered wheel base cars of the mid 60’s are where it’s at. Until the moebius Plymouth we’ve been on our own to build them.

For this one I again started with the revell kit and stretched the rear wheel wells by cutting it in the middle leaving the back edge in the stock location, cutting a piece out ahead of the front edge,and moving the front edge forward. I filled in the gap between the wheel wells with sheet styrene and body filler.

For this one I had to move the front wheel wells forward. I cut them out and moved them to the front bumper.  I filled in the space behind them with sheet styrene and body filler. I then filed and sanded all the joints.

The paint color is testors metallic blue enamel straight from the rattle can.

decals are Fred caddy 

rear and front wheels are from the revell 64 thunder bolt 

I made the roll bar from.080 rod

I used the kit long block with the manifold and timing cover from the amt 1963 corvette with aluminum tubing 

the headers are revell 1968 charger

the front springs are parts box, the axle is aluminum tubing. The tie rod and drag link are mpc’s Ohio George mustang.

the slicks are from the revell thunder bolt. The front tires are amt Firestone supremes.

I just used the stock rear suspension 

I really like the stance of this car, and I’m very pleased with the result of how it displays - the hardest part of building these old cars is finding shades of spray paint.

Thanks for looking, mike

[bisc63]

Another cool drag racer! Love that blue, but the Seaton's Shaker is still my favorite! ( Just love the color combo of it ) You're going to have a heck of a nice display of all these cover cars.

Edited March 13, 2022 by bisc63
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[Ian McLaren]

I'm a fan of this series of models you are building and they are good looking models, well done!

[echo]

Nice effort.  a friend & I as youngsters altered many model car wheelbases as you did. If you wanted an AWB model car you had no choice, there were none available. i was pleasantly surprised when Mobieus came out with their Plymouth AWB and the soon to be released Dodge. 

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[Altered Ego]

Nice job Mike!  This is one of my favorites too.  I am just in the planning stages to add this one to my collection.  Very cool.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Great looking replica! Nice work!!