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JC's 440-6 Super Bird
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 08 2:16 pm
by Anonymous
Its in, and it's going to be done.
Awesome looking piece of kit.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 08 6:06 pm
by Adam
I love 'em. I know the Daytona's are rarer, but the Superbird is much more graceful to the eye, IMHO. First one I saw was Ahmet's yellow Bird (PPV 405R) on the King's Rd in about 1977. I couldn't believe that a factory had built such an outrageous car.
'Course the only reason they exist was to homologate them for NASCAR, and I'm a huge NASCAR fan. I was lucky enough to attend the 30th Winged Warriors Reunion at Talladega in 1999. It was an awesome sight to see a couple hundred Aero cars lined up on the front stretch. My favourite was the Ramo Stott car.
Glad to see John is finally restoring his car
As promised
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 08 9:14 pm
by R.RUNNER
The limelite colour only shows yellow in the photo, but trust me it was green.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 08 10:19 am
by Adam
R.RUNNER wrote:RobTwin wrote:Love that Winged Worriors pic Adam
Fantastic
Keep up Rob, They are called "Winged Warriors"
I think "worriors" might be more appropriate - they certainly worried NASCAR enough to hobble them with a 305ci limit
How 'bout some more from Talladega in 1999? All of the NASCAR lettered cars are replicas, unlike the Ramo Stott car, which is a survivor.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 08 10:25 am
by Adam
And a few 'birds in more familiar colours...
Sorry to hijack John's Superbird thread
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 08 12:10 pm
by steveo
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 08 9:41 pm
by R.RUNNER
Do You remember this, JC, when Mr Andrews owned her.
circa 1981
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 08 9:58 pm
by R.RUNNER
WOW!!!!! Now we`re cooking on GAS......
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 08 7:48 pm
by Anonymous
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 08 5:23 pm
by JC
thats the rear window out look what we found more rust
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 08 5:28 pm
by JC
now we have the lead out we can see where to cut the wings off
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 08 5:32 pm
by JC
me working
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 08 6:54 pm
by Adam
Looks like they were painted before they had the rear window plug fitted - I always assumed they were delivered to Creative Industries in primer. You learn something every day.
tc Superbird
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 08 7:58 pm
by TonyO
Adam, you seem a little confused. ALL Superbirds were built by Chrysler at the Clairpoint Assembly Plant. They used some components from Creative Idustries but actual cars or bodies never went to Creative unlike the Daytonas. The Clairpoint theme can be carried through with a Superbird Fender Tag, there is a J number, which is Chrycos code for Special Order, build Clairpont. This number is unique to the Bird in question. Its the MOST Important part of any Superbird, regardless.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 08 9:32 pm
by JC
the car was painted after the plug went in theres no paint under the plug
the car is going blue not looking bad for a car that has sat for 28yrs
wow , great pictures Adam thanks for sharing them 