Black superbirds i saw in 1988 KINGSTON New york ( and others )

[hotrod98]

Man that is a nice looking Daytona Clone

You ever think about going the bling bling route sometimes? I know I do.  

Just don't go too far.

[A383Wing]

 

[BrianShaughnessy]

i was digging out some of my old photos to scan to keep safe . I ran across these of this black superbird

That's upper Broadway in Kingston.     never saw that bird around       I was living in Port Ewen around then and still worked at the Kingston plant then.  O well.

But my friend Speedo worked on a Superbird in the early 90's at his shop that was lime light...  it was owned by one of the Dietz brothers that ran a NAPA / towing business out on Rt 28.   
It was a rotisserie job that last I saw was green but I don't know what it started out as.  Something happened and the car was pulled out and I've never seen it again but I've heard a couple times that he still may have it. 

[hotrod98]

You just never know where you're going to find a Superbird. At one time, there were three of them around here. That's a lot of birds for a small town in Arkansas. Now that I've brought one home, we're back up to two birds.
As soon as I get this one back on the road, I would like to ge a pic of the two of them together. Give me a couple of weeks. It's going into the booth tomorrow.

[superbirdtom]

It actually looks just as good with the vinyl top on, I took it off  when some little bubbles appeared  just some surface rust  or I wouldn't have taken it off,  whan it gets real hot  you will see a line around the plug  its a typical problem with the plugs  as theyre just tack welded in . the only way to ever get  rid of that is to lead in the whole plug  but god  what a lot of work.   I forgot how cool it looked without the hood.It just takes a day to put one on vs all the painting and blocking and polishing.   I got hasseled by the cops  they said cars have to have hoods .  who am I to argue

[pettybird]

(I'm no better, though--I'm going to run one of those reflective tail stripes Patik just made on the back of the B5 car...)

wow dougy i'm flattered your going to use my tail stripe dave made for me   , I loveit it
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has it been on the whole time, or is that a recent swap out?  I can be that dense at times but I try my best 

[moparstuart]

it still has the road runner white reflective one with a scratch in it on there , but i had david make a prototype with super bird lettering in white reflective and its not installed yet .

[nascarxx29]

Dave had made decals for a friends daytona back in 78.I got Daves reply on a old letter its interesting .Getting back to the black NY superbird wasnt there one on cars in barns in Jamica or Queens NY black superbird sitting in a driveway.I also noticed the car on cars in barns has the top of dash speakers R22 Am 8 track car?


http://www.carsinbarns.com/Superbirds%20&%20Daytonas/pg6.html

[nascarxx29]

The Dave Patik letter circa 1978 you could get custom decals for your wingcar
My friend consulated in 1978 well known Daytona Dave Patik about the daytona letters

[moparstuart]

david made all my white decals , they look great and they were very reasonable .

[moparstuart]

  the rear deck lid reflective stripe says road runner now ,but i has a new one that says superbird .

[superbirdtom]

on my purplr runner fender tage it codes out to black transverse. is that the black stripe that turns reflective at night ? I have not put it on yet hopefully its the right one.

[BrianShaughnessy]

Quote from Speedo after I sent him the pics and asked. 

YEH THAT'S IT LAST I KNEW HE SAID IT WAS DONE PROBABLY JUST PUT AWAY

i was digging out some of my old photos to scan to keep safe . I ran across these of this black superbird

That's upper Broadway in Kingston.     never saw that bird around       I was living in Port Ewen around then and still worked at the Kingston plant then.  O well.

But my friend Speedo worked on a Superbird in the early 90's at his shop that was lime light...  it was owned by one of the Dietz brothers that ran a NAPA / towing business out on Rt 28.   
It was a rotisserie job that last I saw was green but I don't know what it started out as.  Something happened and the car was pulled out and I've never seen it again but I've heard a couple times that he still may have it. 

[moparstuart]

i was digging out some of my old photos to scan to keep safe . I ran across these of this black superbird

That's upper Broadway in Kingston.     never saw that bird around       I was living in Port Ewen around then and still worked at the Kingston plant then.  O well.

But my friend Speedo worked on a Superbird in the early 90's at his shop that was lime light...  it was owned by one of the Dietz brothers that ran a NAPA / towing business out on Rt 28.    
It was a rotisserie job that last I saw was green but I don't know what it started out as.  Something happened and the car was pulled out and I've never seen it again but I've heard a couple times that he still may have it.  

When i was in kingston i knew an old lady who lived in  what we called (SWAGGERTIES ) 
  she lived in a house right off the hwy behind a concrete plant or something  ??   We hung out in woodstock alot also ,

[BrianShaughnessy]

    Oh yeah sure I know her...   NOT.

[moparstuart]

  Oh yeah sure I know her...   NOT.




 

i was sure you did  LOL    , i would bet shes dead after 22-23 years 

 do you know the concrete place i'm talking about  ?

[BrianShaughnessy]

Not really..     Several concrete places along the river north and south of Saugerties off 9W.    Sry.

[moparstuart]

another black car  kentucky plates

[Indygenerallee]

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[rnjump]

  I watched a movie the other night called "Dazed and Confused". It was a 1993 movie with a young Ben Affleck and Mathew McConahey (spelling). The movie gave a brief glimpse of a black bird at a drive-in. Pretty cool!

[hemi68charger]

Now wait a minute....I didn't think red decals were available? I thought only black & white?

I noticed the front has the round 'bird decal on the passenger side...thought it was always on drivers side?

<now I'm really confuzed>

Sometimes the small decal is on both sides... 

Man, that goes way back... Waco Street Machine Nationals back in the day.  Ken's 'Bird is back to its original B5 color now...........

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Now wait a minute....I didn't think red decals were available? I thought only black & white?

I noticed the front has the round 'bird decal on the passenger side...thought it was always on drivers side?

<now I'm really confuzed>

Sometimes the small decal is on both sides...  

Man, that goes way back... Waco Street Machine Nationals back in the day.  Ken's 'Bird is back to its original B5 color now...........

Here it is now...

[Davtona]

Here it is now...

Wow I didn't make the connection at first Allen.    Black bird turned blue. Now I recognize it. Been a long time since I saw that car.

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Here it is now...

Wow I didn't make the connection at first Allen.    Black bird turned blue. Now I recognize it. Been a long time since I saw that car.

Did you see it when you bought the Hemi Charger?

[Davtona]

Here it is now...

Wow I didn't make the connection at first Allen.    Black bird turned blue. Now I recognize it. Been a long time since I saw that car.

Did you see it when you bought the Hemi Charger?

Thats been a few years  ago. A couple anyway. I thought I did, I knew the car was black for sure. If I remember right we met at his place in Austin. The "RAID" began from there. I thought I saw the car there maybe it was just pictures.