One of the 65' 2% Dodges in motion.

Yup, the '65 2% HTs used an aluminum extrusion for the upper door frames, with another one used at the leading edge of the quarter "glass". 1-piece 'glass dashes (no glovebox).
I show 11 10/15 HTs including the mule car, which was apparently destroyed and was the only HT not acid-dipped; the rest were dipped in varying amounts owing to the process at the time. When Chrysler brought the teams in to view & pick their 10/15 cars (photos exist), they picked among the ones there according to their Plymouth or Dodge deals. Seems that Landy's & Golden Commandos' cars were the lightest/most dipped, as there are pics of them being buckled at the door/quarter area. Weird history: Lee Smith's car was found with a sunroof opening cut into the roof! The dipping was not kind to the sheetmetal in the long run, and the cars used to sprout cancer and split seams...

nothing cynical about those posts. the angle of the first shot i mention, doesn't show the wheelbase at all. the grain and texture of the second shot, looks like a diorama on my computer. i didn't "knock" the pics, i questioned the content of them.

i don't have any afx shots i took myself, and i'm not going to post someone else's work. i'm enjoying the vintage show. how about you?

Some where I heard or read that Landy out of all of them decided to take delivery of his car with out the dip and that he progressed with his own lightweight program to make it the lightest with out dipping. He was apparently not trusting of the dipping because of his knowledge that they(the cars) would split down the middle. I could be wrong.

I stand corrected, Landy took his time to neutralize his car after dipping like stated below. The acid would keep working on through time, especially in corners and fold creases and such. A kind of an introduced cancer I guess.

Heard that white car that says 'Dave Strickler' on the door sold for some righteous coin that weekend...

Joe Ralph Thompson out of Arkansas. This car was an original 1964 MW Lightweight converted in 1966. I was told the aluminum cars were made illegal in NHRA around then. Joe died last year and I'm still in touch with his daughter. The car was in Garlit's museum for 15 years, and now resides at Bushmaster's in Missouri.

Avec paint. Derwood Reep was the driver. Joe had three cars at the time, two red Plymouths and a white Dodge.

Sanford Bolin's old AWB Plymouth. I got this photo off Classracer. A friend of mine owned this car at one time and said it was scary thin. It had the MSO when he owned it.

Sanford ran a transmission shop in Little Rock. He later ran a Street Roadster with a Hemi in it.

Bubble windshield.

It was said the Landy was one who actually took the time to dop his car in a neutralizing solution and the dipping was done at night because the large plume of toxic smoke the process made

Love the AWB cars - Shame so many Hemi and Max wedge cars got sliced into AWB cars but that was racing progression

Search online you can find photos of guys building there own cars using the factory blueprints (full size prints) - Great thread on class racer ( A990 super stockers)

I prefer the early year cars as the later years they were really gutted (shirl greer, flying dutchman and the roofless Melrose Missle as examples)

For all you guys that have the bug to build an AWB 65 Coronet or Belvedere, those parts can be purchased at Sled City Fiberglass. Hoods, hood scoops awb fenders, dash boards, bumpers, and doors. Our fenders were supplied for a 62 Plymouth awb, 63 Plymouth awb and a 64 plymouth awb cars and the buyers did the altering on those units. www.sledcityevents.com

Friend of mines car...We line them up whenever we are both at the drags...Kinda a grudge thing.





I usually put a bulb on him....

A local buy built one years ago and I think it turned out pretty nice!
http://www.moparmaniacs.net/belveframe.html

Nice job!