Which rims do you prefer on my bird?

[Brock Samson]

 Personally i love the black TT look myself, the absence of the white PLYMOUTH decal and the shiny non Vynal top make it look mildly customised and I love it!  Other than that,..  either wheel looks fine, but I'm not too fond of the Magnum look, I prefer the rallyes..   

[hotrod98]

Now I see that many of the rims that I thought would look good on the car...don't. The Centerlines are looking better and better. This car is out there in limbo since it doesn't have the vinyl top or the rest of the decals so it has a strange identity. Kind of custom and kind of stock. I don't want to go all original but I still want the car to look like a real bird.
I get opinions both ways at the car shows around here. In the beginning I had several people ask me what wheels and tires I was planning to put on the car and now that I've gone with the rallyes, I have people saying that they liked it better with the Centerlines. Like I said before there's no right or wrong, just different.

[mauve66]

there's 1-20 of them at car shows with stock wheels everyday, let it keep its own identity

[hotrod98]

I like being different.

Here's what the Centerline rims look like on my 69 runner.

Note that the Superbird wing that was on the runner is now gone. Montana bird flew the coop with that wing. 

[moparstuart]

ralleys   

[hotrod98]

The wheel wells are so friggin big on b-bodies that even my 15X8's with P255's look small. Maybe I should have gone with 70 series tires instead of 60 series. At least the Centerlines filled the wheel openings better. I put 70 series TA's and 15" steelies on the Superbee that bigblocksam bought from me and it looked wicked.
In general I think b-bodies look rediculous with 14" rallyes. They look like tiny roller skates. That's just my opinion though.
I think the 69 runner looks good with the Centerlines. I'm saving that car for my brother but he isn't getting the rims.

[BigBlockSam]

8 inch rims . this is also a great riding combo . i have dog dish caps on it now

[hotrod98]

We really miss the bee. I was thinking about it just this last week. I wish that I could have had the time to restore it. So many projects, so little time. At least it's in good hands.

[BigBlockSam]

i luv this Bee ,  she attracts as much attention as the daytona . people luv this car . i've done a lot of high performace upgrades to it in the last month . she's running gooooooooooooooooood .

[BigBlockSam]

check her out this is a vid of her  running since i freshened  up the motor . my friend tom put a serious tune on her . she's purring . still got a crappy idle but that's that cam . 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRHE37xxQPI

[tan top]

8 inch rims . this is also a great riding combo . i have dog dish caps on it now

superbee looks tough with the plain steels

check her out this is a vid of her  running since i freshened  up the motor . my friend tom put a serious tune on her . she's purring . still got a crappy idle but that's that cam . 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRHE37xxQPI

good video BBS  , need a burn out or a hole shot  one now 

[BigBlockSam]

thanks bro, can't wait to fry the tires off of her. here an old burnout vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm25vWESMko

[tan top]

thanks bro, can't wait to fry the tires off of her. here an old burnout vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm25vWESMko

   love it  ,    waking the neighbour's  to the sound of mopar muscle   
great stuff BBS 

[hotrod98]

Here's how she looked when I first found her. She was sitting under this shed just a few hundred yards from my house and I never knew that it was there. My 69 runner is in the background and the 69 Charger R/T SE that I eventually transformed into Allen's Daytona clone is sitting in front of the runner. I bought all three cars that day.

[tan top]

Here's how she looked when I first found her. She was sitting under this shed just a few hundred yards from my house and I never knew that it was there. My 69 runner is in the background and the 69 Charger R/T SE that I eventually transformed into Allen's Daytona clone is sitting in front of the runner. I bought all three cars that day.

what a find  !!   good day by the looks of it HR98
 bee looks well straight  , thanks for sharing the picture  

[hotrod98]

The guy that owned them started and drove them pretty regularly. We drove the bee and the runner home but the brakes were spongey on the charger so we trailered it. They were all pretty solid cars. I'll get to visit my old Charger this weekend at MMW.
I upset a lot of people around here when I sold the Bee to someone out-of-state. No one ever expressed interest in the car until they realized that it was gone. Oh well. Stuff happens.

[hemi68charger]

Hey Larry...
I say Rallyes... Always look great.............

[BigBlockSam]

thanks for the pic hotrod, getting this bee to where it is today has been a major act of love on my part 

[Hemi_tyme]

Hey Larry...
I say Rallyes... Always look great.............

I'm with troy and the rest of the Rallies gang...........But you need to repaint the centers .........1970 light..........1971 dark. Looking forward to this weekend myself..
Ken

[hotrod98]

Good eye Ken.
These rallyes are off of my 71 Cuda. The color is correct for that car and I didn't want to change the color until I made up my mind as to whether or not I was going to keep them on the bird. That's actually one of the ressns for starting this thread.

Besides, most of the people at Wal-Mart don't know the difference. If I had a nickel for every time I've come out and found a shopping cart resting against the side of my bird...
Those folks have no respect. 

[Old Moparz]

Thanks for the input. There is no right choice really if you think about it. It's like two completely different cars. Sort of like Jekyll and Hyde. I like it both ways but people tend to think that the car is a clone when it has the Centelines on it.

For the most part that doesn't bother me but there are other Mopar people around here that would rather I not have a real Superbird if you know what I mean. Many of them have ben Mopar people all of their lives and I just switched 15 years ago. I'm the new guy in their minds.


I'm leaning towards leaving the rallyes on for the MMW show and then switching them when I get home. Our fall car show season here in the south is just starting up and there are several more shows to attend before January.

Personally I think the Centerlines look better, & probably because you don't have the lettering on the side. As for the crowd that doesn't feel you're a true Mopar guy that should own a Superbird, well, f-em'. If I was in that position I'd find a way to put Chevy Rally wheels on just to really annoy the hell out of them. 

[hotrod98]

You and I think a lot alike.

[nascarxx29]

  Rallyes are heavy what about the cragar superlites/weld wheels very light high polished  .Or wheel vintques maybe have rallyes in alumunim

[hotrod98]

I don't care for the Wheel Vintique billet rallyes. I've seen them on a few cars and the center caps look too small and out of proportion to the rest of the rim.
Fooses billet rallyes look a little better. His had an aluminum center cap. I would have to take out a loan against my house to buy Foose rims.

[mauve66]

I don't care for the Wheel Vintique billet rallyes. I've seen them on a few cars and the center caps look too small and out of proportion to the rest of the rim.
Fooses billet rallyes look a little better. His had an aluminum center cap. I would have to take out a loan against my house to buy Foose rims.

i was thinking your crazy, i've seen foose wheels for 180 bucks all the time then i do a search for those and GOOD LORD, those must be made of unobtanium

http://www.wheelsforless.com/SearchResult.aspx?Keywords=F22377