Black Ice Superbird...Next Chapter

hotrod98 · Nov 28, 2009

Well, the Superbird was delivered this morning from Alaska. I absolutely love this car.
Tom kept preparing me for the car not being perfect. Well, he's wrong...in my eyes it is perfect. It has just enough roughness around the edges to make it a true driver in my eyes. I had been thinking all along that I would take up where Tom left off and continue the disassembly and then restore the car back to perfection. That's not gonna happen.
My new plan is to block it, seal it, throw some fresh black paint on it and drive it...a lot.
I drove it home from the drop off point this morning and it drives great. Much better than I had expected.
The only resto work for me other than the paint will be to re-cover the seats, put new carpet on the console, move the battery from the trunk to the engine bay and a few other odds and ends. There is just no way that I'm going to tear this car down. I want to be driving it and showing it as soon as possible.

69HEMICORONETR/TCONV · Nov 28, 2009

You got a wing for this thing ?

moparstuart · Nov 28, 2009

larry get to work brother you only have 6 months

Propwash · Nov 28, 2009

congrats on the new bird.

hotrod98 · Nov 28, 2009

69HEMICORONETR/TCONV said:
You got a wing for this thing ?

I've got the original wing for this car in the trunk and another original Superbird wing that I bought a year ago or so. I also have a reproduction wing that I've put on my 69 runner.
The car came with all of the original parts. Tom had disassembled it to restore it when I stepped in and bought it as is. There was no reason to put the stuff back on the car before shipping it to me.
The best part is that I've been buying and hoarding Superbird and Roadrunner parts for years including a lot of nos stuff.
But there's only a couple of items that I'll replace on this car. I'll box up and label any of the original parts that I pull off of the car.

hotrod98 · Nov 28, 2009

moparstuart said:
larry get to work brother you only have 6 months

Stuart, this car is so nice that all I plan to do is put it in the booth and re-shoot it. There's not a whole lot that has to be done. Thank goodness.
It will definitely be ready for the big wingcar gathering in June.

hotrod98 · Nov 29, 2009

Stuart, Almost forgot. Check out my old 87 Dodge truck in the background of one of the pics. I loaned my new Dodge crewcab to my son to drive to Houston so I had to dig this truck out of storage to meet the car hauler to load up the extra Superbird hood.
The truck has a fresh 440 with MSD ignition, MP valve covers, aluminum intake, holley carb and a fresh 727 transmission. The guy did all of the work and became disillusioned because it wouldn't run right and sold it to me for a grand. Fixed a fuel line and bumped the timing back and it drives great. I was going to pull the drivetrain put and put it into one of my cudas but decided that I needed a beater truck. Glad I did.

moparstuart · Nov 29, 2009

hotrod98 said:
Stuart, Almost forgot. Check out my old 87 Dodge truck in the background of one of the pics. I loaned my new Dodge crewcab to my son to drive to Houston so I had to dig this truck out of storage to meet the car hauler to load up the extra Superbird hood.
The truck has a fresh 440 with MSD ignition, MP valve covers, aluminum intake, holley carb and a fresh 727 transmission. The guy did all of the work and became disillusioned because it wouldn't run right and sold it to me for a grand. Fixed a fuel line and bumped the timing back and it drives great. I was going to pull the drivetrain put and put it into one of my cudas but decided that I needed a beater truck. Glad I did.

dude you fall into the best I dont wanna finish my project deals . :tongueflap:

CoronetRTguy · Jan 18, 2010

That is a great looking Super Bird. Tell me as I dont know the back story on it is this a real super bird and is it a real black car?

That is going to be an awesome looking car when done its already awesome man Im drooling.

moparstuart · Jan 18, 2010

No superbird ever came from the factory black . This car was build in black as a promo car for a heavy metal band back in the 80 hair band days .
here is a tread i started about it over a year ago
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,51381.0.html

Tom my friend and the previous owner and builder of this car , is a body man and was in the band also . Tom is the one in white by the door .

moparstuart · Jan 18, 2010

tom also built an air grabber into the hood like my birdible has

hotrod98 · Jan 25, 2010

moparstuart said:
tom also built an air grabber into the hood like my birdible has

Actually the hood on the Black Ice car is a 70 Roadrunner air grabber hood that has been narrowed and had the Superbird extension added to it. He stiffened it so it's a little on the heavy side but looks and works great.

moparstuart · Jan 25, 2010

hotrod98 said:
Actually the hood on the Black Ice car is a 70 Roadrunner air grabber hood that has been narrowed and had the Superbird extension added to it. He stiffened it so it's a little on the heavy side but looks and works great.

get to work

CoronetRTguy · Jan 25, 2010

I wondered why it was called Black Ice didnt know it was a bands car. Thats cool need more of the story.

69HEMICORONETR/TCONV · Jan 25, 2010

CoronetRTguy said:
I wondered why it was called Black Ice didnt know it was a bands car. Thats cool need more of the story.

It was News to me too.

moparstuart · Jan 26, 2010

tom has always been a mopar guy , then he was in a heavy metal hair band .

tom had owned the since the early 80 . He bought it from jim radke (well known wing car guy ) and early winged warriors club president .

69HEMICORONETR/TCONV · Jan 26, 2010

I hope the wheels that are on the car in the band picture are permanently loss forever.:rolling:

moparstuart · Jan 26, 2010

i dont like those corvette knock offs either , ugly

wannadrag · Jan 26, 2010

69HEMICORONETR/TCONV said:
I hope the wheels that are on the car in the band picture are permanently loss forever.:rolling:

:yes:

hotrod98 · Feb 1, 2010

69HEMICORONETR/TCONV said:
I hope the wheels that are on the car in the band picture are permanently loss forever.:rolling:

The Enkei rims are no longer on the car. For now, it has the 17" Centerline Billets. I know where the Enkei's are and would love to have them just because of the history. The Centerlines may or may not stay on the car. I have a set of the correct rallyes on one of my roadrunners that I could put on the car. My wife may even let me borrow her Boyds off of her Cuda occasionally. I also have a set of Torq Thrust D's on one of my 71 Cudas that I would love to put on the car just to see how it would look.

As soon as the weather gets a little warmer, I'll take some new pics of the car and post them.

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