Oh gawd!!!!!

[Mytur Binsdirti]

 



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[Aero426]

Nasty... and not in a good way.

[moparstuart]

photos taken at heartland park raceway drag strip in topeka kansas  

[68X426]

Those things seem to pop up every few months. They never work for me.

[Lighthorseman]

 That just does not work for me.   

[billssuperbird]

 

[pettybird]

U GYS R MEEN THATS AN AWESOME DREAM CAR.  CANT WE ALL DREAM AND GET ALONG??

[dreamcatcher]

I dont think it is so bad...our old ones turn more stomachs than thumbs up but we still like them...   

[A383Wing]

does nothing for me

Bryan

[Kismgby]

Just reminds me of a ricer....

[Aero426]

our old ones turn more stomachs than thumbs up but we still like them... 

Huh?

[Old Moparz]

Can't figure out which is more bizarre, the fact that the dealer charged $3995 for that wing & stripe, or that someone thought the wing & strip was worth the extra $3995.   

[tan top]

 

[hatersaurusrex]

Oh gawd, is right... as in Oh, how gawdy!

To quote Big Bang Theory: "It looks like something Elton John would ride through the Everglades"

[djcarguy]

canadian made with mexico engine and trans. thank gawd at least it looks good...for a furrin car?/???

[Ghoste]

I was thinking more along the lines of what an embarassment to the United States to have a foreign owned company build engines and assemble the cars outside of the country only to bring the car back into the US and have an American dealer sell such an ugly thing to an American customer. 

[Cooter]

This would be a fine example of "Settling" for whatever you can get that remotely looks "fast".....For my $45K they want for that thing, It better be an original that came with that wing.

[hotrod98]

While I love driving my American made Superbird, I love driving my new Challenger even more. It's one of the best driving vehicle that I've ever owned.  I added the skip shift eliminator for the six speed and installed a pistol grip shifter with carbon fiber grips. I added the six pack hood and have just bought the 392 front spoiler and a factory go wing for it. It runs on 91 octane fuel and gets 25 mpg. My Superbird won't run on anything less than 93 octane with out overheating and unfortunately we can no longer get 93 here. I need to pull the radical engine out of the bird and put a milder one in that runs on 91.

Now, as for that wing on the new Challenger, I think that if they had made the wing shorter and painted it to match, it would have looked much better. 

[Highbanked Hauler]

 you can't get 93 where you are at ? wonder if that is going to catch on

[moparstuart]

you can't get 93 where you are at ? wonder if that is going to catch on

we can only get it at a select few  BP stations here and towards the center of missouri and over by st louis shell has it  .   

[pettybird]

our old ones turn more stomachs than thumbs up but we still like them... 

Huh?

<--what he said

[boss429kiwi]

our old ones turn more stomachs than thumbs up but we still like them...  

Huh?

<--what he said

What he said

I bet our old winged cars had a similar response in the 70's

[odcics2]

I remember one magazine calling the SuperBird a turd when it was new in 1970! 

Hey - Do you all remember the FIRST wing car you ever saw rolling down the street when you were a kid?? 

[Ghoste]

Oh yes!

[held1823]

Hey - Do you all remember the FIRST wing car you ever saw rolling down the street when you were a kid??  

i do. it's still around.

[hotrod98]

I heard that they are going to eventually quit selling 93 octane altogether. As far as I know, there are no new vehicles built at this time that require 93 octane. I have a couple of my cars parked at this time. No 93, no driving. Even my 71 Cuda with a 340 ran like crap on 91
The only musclecar that I'm driving right now is my wife's 73 Cuda that has a 1995 model 5.9 EFI engine that runs on 87 octane.

[taxspeaker]

We have a place 1/2 mile from my house (Makowski Oil) that still sells leaded 103 octane gas "not legal for street use" through the pumps. Southern Indiana right outside Louisville. Runs about $6-7 per gallon and doesn't turn to gunk in 2 weeks-RUn it exclusively in the Bird and the Hemi Charger. Of course they are never driven on the street

[Highbanked Hauler]

 I am hoping to run my 68 on E-85 when it gets done.  Whats Sunoco  NASCAR fuel now ,I heard its supposed to be unleaded.

[1RareBird]

Give it thirty years and a lot of us that are still around will be hunting for those cars lol.

[hotrod98]

It's beginning to look like they are going to stop production on the Challenger in 2014 as originally planned. They will replace it with the Fiat Cuda. The new Cuda will be smaller and lighter than the Challenger. Closer to the size of the Mustang. I think I'll hold on to my Challenger for a while. I'm even keeping all of the original parts that I take off of it just in case.

[hatersaurusrex]

I think the key thing to remember is that original wing cars - love or hate them - had a giant wing on them because it was functional.   They were wind tunnel tested and were never intended to look good, just to work, and work they did.    So the originals are about a specific combination of engineered components that won a ton of races.    Form followed function.    The wing was never meant to be attractive.

On this car, the wing might still serve some function, but it's not like they put this in a wind tunnel and calculated how much downforce it would get on a banked oval.   In fact it might be less than worthless.   It's just there to 'look good like the old wing cars' which is something they never even intended on the old cars.   

[Topher]

My car runs better on 93, but it still doesn't like this new era of fuel. Where can a guy get the "Bre your own gas at home" ACME kit?

I walked by 2 winged creatures when I first saw what would become my Charger in 1988. I was 17, and didn't have a clue what they were. I remember walking through their barn and seeing these great big valve covers with holes in them hanging from rafters. I thought they were huge, and odd looking. Again, no clue what they were at the time. As time has marched on, I learned that one of the winged rides was a Super Bird, and the other a 440 Daytona. The Super Bird was featured in Mopar Muscle and is now in Canada.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

$200 bux to fill tires with with Nitrogen?  Does that come with a side order of Kool-ade?

[Highbanked Hauler]

$200 bux to fill tires with with Nitrogen?  Does that come with a side order of Kool-ade?

get a tank from an industrial supply and do your own

[Ghoste]

I think the key thing to remember is that original wing cars - love or hate them - had a giant wing on them because it was functional.   They were wind tunnel tested and were never intended to look good, just to work, and work they did.    So the originals are about a specific combination of engineered components that won a ton of races.    Form followed function.    The wing was never meant to be attractive.

On this car, the wing might still serve some function, but it's not like they put this in a wind tunnel and calculated how much downforce it would get on a banked oval.   In fact it might be less than worthless.   It's just there to 'look good like the old wing cars' which is something they never even intended on the old cars.   

Exactly!  And they would never have even bothered with a street version if NASCAR didn't force them to.

[dreamcatcher]

While I love driving my American made Superbird, I love driving my new Challenger even more. It's one of the best driving vehicle that I've ever owned.  I added the skip shift eliminator for the six speed and installed a pistol grip shifter with carbon fiber grips. I added the six pack hood and have just bought the 392 front spoiler and a factory go wing for it. It runs on 91 octane fuel and gets 25 mpg. My Superbird won't run on anything less than 93 octane with out overheating and unfortunately we can no longer get 93 here. I need to pull the radical engine out of the bird and put a milder one in that runs on 91.

Now, as for that wing on the new Challenger, I think that if they had made the wing shorter and painted it to match, it would have looked much better. 

WOW your getting 25?I just traded our Boss stang for a 300C hemi..the mileage is very disappointing to me...At best it will average 20.5 on the highway. It runs like a scalded dog but even at 65 it likes its gas....  I knew I should have bought the Challenger instead.....