Moebius Model King '65 Coronet Dave Strickler AWB - First detailed look inside the box...

[tim boyd]

The long awaited kit is finally here.  Click this link for 51 images and captions that show the kit contents in detail along with a complete walk-through of the assembly manual. 

Thanks for looking!  TIM 

 

Edited August 27, 2024 by tim boyd

[Stef]

Thank you, @tim boyd; this looks awesome, and I want one, bad.

Comparing this now to the Golden Commandos to see what is similar, and what is different!

 

[66c10]

I like the kit sofar pretty happy with the kit 

[66c10]

Can't wait to build this kit 

[1972coronet]

Thanks for the photos and accompanying text , @tim boyd ! 

FWIW, I'd feel compelled to add a "correct" 8.75" differential - "correct" based upon the 1965's being the last year for the 8.75" diff, irrespective of transmission ; the Dana 60 coming along for 1966 (and likely within the rules for Modified Production , Gas, etc., classes, when upgraded on the 1965's).

[Mr mopar]

I'm just Glad a proper AWB Coronet is here  ,I can over come the rear end and tail lights  ,Thx Tim for the photo's  and now bring on the decals from the after market .

[Ron Hamilton]

That looks great! I can't wait to get one to go with the rest of my Mobieus race car kits.

[stavanzer]

6 hours ago, Mr mopar said:

I'm just Glad a proper AWB Coronet is here  ,I can over come the rear end and tail lights  ,Thx Tim for the photo's  and now bring on the decals from the after market .

What's wrong with the taillights?

[tim boyd]

13 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

Thanks for the photos and accompanying text , @tim boyd ! 

FWIW, I'd feel compelled to add a "correct" 8.75" differential - "correct" based upon the 1965's being the last year for the 8.75" diff, irrespective of transmission ; the Dana 60 coming along for 1966 (and likely within the rules for Modified Production , Gas, etc., classes, when upgraded on the 1965's).

Thanks John, for the clarification. 

The other two kits off this tool, the A990 sedan and "street fighter" (my description) still use the 8.75 diff in back...my presumption (subject to correction, of course), was that at least some of the AWB cars were upgraded to the Dana by their owners if not equipped that way during their original construction....TB 

[1972coronet]

9 hours ago, stavanzer said:

What's wrong with the taillights?

I'm curious, too. However, when I saw the images which @tim boyd shared, the tail lamp bezels appear to be the sans-back-up-lamps type* , which is correct for a "lesser" trim level (the 500 had back-up lamps as standard).

* =back-up ( reverse, et alia ) lamps weren't mandated until the 1965 calendar year - take the "1964 1/2" Mustang as an example : no back-up lamps

[Mark]

Backup lamps weren't required nationwide until 1967; possibly even cars produced as of 1/1/67.  I have seen a number of 1966 cars without them.

[Stef]

I remember the ex-Polar Lights 65 Coronet snapper AMT released a few years back, as built by HPIGuy, 4+ years ago. Pretty sure there was a thread here about this kit, too. While I don't remember specific comments regarding the taillights, here is a screencap of the taillights in that particular kit.

 

Full build here, for context:

 

[Mr mopar]

A red lenes would have made it just a little cooler looking ! But Tamiya clear red will work .

Edited August 29, 2024 by Mr mopar

[echo]

Thanks for the excellent first look Tim, a lot of nice features in this kit some well thought out features by Moebius, it should make a nice build up, looking forward to getting the two I pre-ordered.  Nice that the large red Dodge logo that goes on the roof of some versions of this car is included, I'm sure with the aftermarket decals most if not all factory liveries will be able to be build.  

 

[Mr mopar]

Guys the 8 3/4  rear end comes in the other two kits  Super stock and stock !

Edited August 29, 2024 by Mr mopar

[GMP440]

12 hours ago, Mr mopar said:

A red lenes would have made it just a little cooler looking ! But Tamiya clear red will work .

Those are the 440 model taillights.  Look much better than the Coronet 500 taillights.

[Force]

A must have kit.

[tim boyd]

Very interesting to me...this kit was the first of the three Moebius kits to be covered in depth here, yet it has half the number of views as my later post on the other two "street friendly" versions of the kit.  I would have guessed the exact opposite to be true. 

Of course, I was also the guy questioning (behind the scenes) Round 2's choice of the '63 Nova wagon as the possible subject for their first "cloning" kit subject, and that turned out to be a big seller for them.  Shows how much I (don't) know about the hobby these days (smile).   TB   

[GMP440]

4 hours ago, tim boyd said:

Very interesting to me...this kit was the first of the three Moebius kits to be covered in depth here, yet it has half the number of views as my later post on the other two "street friendly" versions of the kit.  I would have guessed the exact opposite to be true. 

Of course, I was also the guy questioning (behind the scenes) Round 2's choice of the '63 Nova wagon as the possible subject for their first "cloning" kit subject, and that turned out to be a big seller for them.  Shows how much I (don't) know about the hobby these days (smile).   TB   

  I think in general that the overall appeal to the masses of the awb Coronet kit and other awb kits are a lot less than the mainstreamer kits ie; 63 Nova wagon, 65 Coronet stock sedan kits etc.  I would say the appeal of the race only and awb kits of whatever car subject it is would be for  the drag car builders which is a very small niche.  More builders would rather have a stock street car over non stock race version of that subject.   This seems to be illustrated well by Moebius with their low production number of drag car subjects.  Someone mentioned only 6000 of the awb 65 Coronet kits produced.  I would gather Moebius did this knowing a small number of builders would buy the kit.    

[Radretireddad]

I’m one of the not so keen on AWB drag cars kinda guy probably because the only other AWB offerings from Round2 are way to simplistic, but this one I think is really cool. That stack injected hemi is so over the top for me that I’m definitely planning on building one of these. What an incredibly wild street machine this thing would make. Another very fine kit from our friends at Moebius.

[stavanzer]

I want all three kits, but It will be sometime before I can get them. I like the AWB car, but see it being built with Injection. I'll probably have to kit-bash a blower. All of them look good.

[niteowl7710]

12 hours ago, tim boyd said:

Very interesting to me...this kit was the first of the three Moebius kits to be covered in depth here, yet it has half the number of views as my later post on the other two "street friendly" versions of the kit.  I would have guessed the exact opposite to be true. 

Of course, I was also the guy questioning (behind the scenes) Round 2's choice of the '63 Nova wagon as the possible subject for their first "cloning" kit subject, and that turned out to be a big seller for them.  Shows how much I (don't) know about the hobby these days (smile).   TB   

I suspect the "issue" would be people more or less knew exactly what to expect out of the AWB kit as it's had a number of test shot features over the time since it's been announced.  The A990/Day 2 kits were a bit more of the unknown in terms of exact contents.

[Tim W. SoCal]

7 hours ago, Radretireddad said:

What an incredibly wild street machine this thing would make.

Your statement got my gears turning, Brian! I'll build one of my AWB Coronet kits as a wild street machine with the injector stacks poking through the hood, modern mag wheels and a medium / dark metallic blue exterior. Thank you for the inspiration!...

[Robberbaron]

3 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

I suspect the "issue" would be people more or less knew exactly what to expect out of the AWB kit as it's had a number of test shot features over the time since it's been announced.  The A990/Day 2 kits were a bit more of the unknown in terms of exact contents.

I'm inclined to believe this.  Another factor may be that there is a limited amount of variations that one can build of the AWB cars (assuming one wants to build accurate replicas of 1:1 cars from the sixties), whereas there are thousands of possibilities with the 2-door sedans, which probably sparks more interest.

A990 racers, street machines, slant 6 grocery getters, there were even some 2-door police cars in 1:1.  Wouldn't be too tough to trans the body to a 4-door either.

Having said that, I suspect that the people interested in the AWB kit are more likely to buy multiple quantities of it, to try to replicate several (or even all) of the original 1:1 drag cars.

[Hondamatic]

I'm definitely gonna buy on my next visit to Pegasus