RM23U0A170221... The San Antonio Express works it's way to the Starting Line...

[paironines]

Yeah the car looks great with the wax and buff. Up here in the rust belt we pray our cars look that good even after the body shop!

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Bird looks to be pretty solid Allen.  Looks like the trunk floor would pass the basketball test.  If you kinow what I mean which I'm sure you do.  Looking good. 

Thanks Dave... might have trouble keeping golf balls in the trunk at a spot or two...  need to clean out the trunk and check, but I believe the trunk floor is toast.  Also, rust around the rear window and trunk opening... and a spot at the top of the windshield.

[hemi68charger]

'Bird looks pretty solid there Allen..   

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Yeah the car looks great with the wax and buff. Up here in the rust belt we pray our cars look that good even after the body shop!

Thanks... The 'Bird is looking better than I expected so far.  Rubbing out the oxidized paint by hand is taking too long, might need to buy a couple of pads for my 7 in. power buffer!  At least there's no worries about rubbing through the paint on the edges of the body panels...  

[xs29j8Bullitt]

'Bird looks pretty solid there Allen..   

Thanks Troy... Two factory four speeds for one automatic... jus' sayn'...   

[Bob T]

Great thread with the history and pics 

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Great thread with the history and pics 

Thanks... a couple more pics 

[hemi68charger]

'Bird looks pretty solid there Allen..    

Thanks Troy... Two factory four speeds for one automatic... jus' sayn'...    

Well, if it's the 3 I want (and it doesn't include the 'Cuda), then maybe....... At least I have a 4-car garage... lol

Speaking of garage, back to the Daytona and finishing up the carpet... Looking real good. Glad I got the ECS version.....

[tan top]

    thats a good site !! ,
thanks for sharing  
think i'll join up there to see if anyone has any old pictures & info of the original  selling dealer of my charger  
i wont hijack Allens thread
 by posting  other stuff  

heres the  O.R.MITCHELL dealer nameplate picture ! i mentioned in my above post   not hijacking or anything  ,  but same dealer  

Thanks for posting the pic, and no problem with hi-jacking... I already hi-jacked this thread to ramble on about the FM3 GTX...  As I recall your car came from Nowell in Arlington, Texas... I will see what I can find on the newspaper archive sites that I am using...

While we wait and see if the original owner supplies some back-in-the-day pics, I  will post some more before clean-up pictures.  Later I will post new pics to show how the 'Bird cleans up...

First the worst side of the car, the passenger side that you have already been seeing pics of.  It is still in work, but starting to look a bit better...

more good pictures !! wow that thing looks well straight    awesome stuff 
looking forward to seeing more !! 

yes Allen good memory ! mine was sold out of  Nowell motors  Inc , Arlington texas  76010 , they must have been trying to give it away though ! & no one wanted that color combo something was going on !!  it had a SPD of November 22 nd 68 & was not sold to its first owner  untill June 23rd 1969  !!
if you do get chance to search through that newes paper archive search , would be greatly appreciated  Allen ! , 

[moparstuart]

 my nose cone as found  looks like yours

[xs29j8Bullitt]

my nose cone as found  looks like yours

You found yours laying in your driveway?!?      

I found mine laying under a door!      See pic! 

[nascarxx29]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,21818.msg237998.html

[moparstuart]

my nose cone as found  looks like yours

You found yours laying in your driveway?!?      

I found mine laying under a door!      See pic!  

     as found condition  ,  as found it was hanging from the rafters in a body shop garage

    glad you broke out the telestrator again   

[redrider]

The Superbird spent about a year "down on the farm", before being moved back to San Antonio where it was stored in a boat storage unit to protect it from the elements...

is that a panther pink gtx in the backgroud?

[Dave Kanofsky]

The Superbird spent about a year "down on the farm", before being moved back to San Antonio where it was stored in a boat storage unit to protect it from the elements...

is that a panther pink gtx in the backgroud?

Dude, where you been?  Alan hijacked his own thread a few pages back about that car...

[hemi68charger]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,21818.msg237998.html

This car still isn't together.................... I believe it's here in Houston and I'm not going to post his name, he's a very private man...........

[xs29j8Bullitt]

The Superbird spent about a year "down on the farm", before being moved back to San Antonio where it was stored in a boat storage unit to protect it from the elements...

is that a panther pink gtx in the backgroud?

Dude, where you been?  Alan hijacked his own thread a few pages back about that car...

A friend went to Scott L.'s house recently to look at another vehicle and saw the FM3 GTX which has finally been restored after about a half dozen or more owners over the years...

[tan top]

my nose cone as found  looks like yours

You found yours laying in your driveway?!?      

I found mine laying under a door!      See pic! 

you found it laying in your drive way !!  that funny 

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Talked to the original owner again briefly on Saturday...

> One of his favorite races at the track was a showdown with a Boss 429 Mustang... the 'Bird won of course!
> He remembers the wing being silver, but does not remember why it was painted like that (it has been 35 years or so...)
> On one of his road trips, he met someone driving a dark blue Daytona with a black tail stripe and possibly other black "trim" who was from California.  They met in west Texas, and parked the cars together to take pictures... he is not sure if he still has them.  Ideas on who this CA guy was    

[nascarxx29]

   Joe Machado comes to mind from Ca and his daytona been painted many colors .Not sure on the blue .But it was silver for a time.Radke had a blue daytona but wing not black .Maybe C5X Joes son Sean will recall such a Ca car they have extensive photographs

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Slowly working on my cars since the weather has cooled off.  Worked on the `Cuda 440-6, the Daytona, and the Superbird yesterday.  As the Daytona is coming apart as needed to begin the front frame repair, the Superbird is having it's parts returned.  For the most part, Aero Car unique parts were removed while the cars were in public storage... in theory making them harder to identify when the storage unit's doors were open.

The removed items have been kept in a well marked box, some having been wrapped up since 1995...  All were clearly labeled for easy identification.

[xs29j8Bullitt]

RH Scoop was the first to be reinstalled...

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Time for an update...  "Clean-Up needed on Aisle 1"... something has blocked it off!

A friend and I re-installed the nose cone onto the Superbird without the headlight assemblies.  It was a last minute decision, and the headlight assemblies were left off to save time.  A friend who teaches a 6th grade Science class had planned to use my `Cuda and Challenger for a video about scaling objects and their features, by making a video with various scale sizes of diecast/plastic models displayed with the "1:1" actual car.  Because the two cars were in a small garage, the video would had to have be taken outside to get the entire car into the framing of the shot.  Well, the weekend was too windy for that due to the narration needed for the video.

So the decision was made to shoot the video inside the "Dodge Mahal" workshop, with the triple black Charger and Superbird displayed with the model cars.  I expect to get a copy of the edited final video within the next 2-3 weeks...

The short video was "filmed" with an iPad!... amazing video quality for something that looks like a small clipboard!

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Three pics of the Superbird and a pic of the headlight assemblies which will be installed later...

[hemi68charger]

Three pics of the Superbird and a pic of the headlight assemblies which will be installed later...

Hey Allen !!!  There's a bunch of spiders on your T/A !!!