The Superbird wing is now on my 69 Roadrunner (with pics)

[hotrod98]

My wife has been after me to put our extra Superbird wing on our 69 roadrunner for quite a while. I've resisted, but finally decided that since I won't have the time to build her new Superbird clone for a while, I might as well and go ahead and do it. She has really become a wingcar nut the last few years. Even her truck has a wing.
This wing is one that Don Currie built for me a couple of years ago. It's a steel skin over a tubular frame. He did a great job in my opinion. I just don't have that type of ability. It was damaged in shipping a little so it required some body work. I hadn't noticed the damage until I decided to paint it.
I used a set of the Daytona wing braces that I've been building and selling on this forum for the last couple of years. With just some minor alterations, they worked out pretty good. I made a set of wing washers out of .090 aluminum. Should work just fine. We took the car out this afternoon and it doesn't shake or anything which was a relief. I'll check it for high speed vibrations later on. Since seeing the pics of the 69 Runner being used to mock up the Superbird, the wing doesn't look all that out of place on a 69 now.
Anyway, the wife is happy and it doesn't look all that bad. I can always remove it, weld up the holes and repaint the quarters. Actually, the paint is very thin and the entire car needs dents removed and repainted, so no big loss.

 

[daredevil]

beautiful car with or without the wing

 

[tadjou]

I agree, nice car. But I might be a bit bias.

Not sure of the wing though. You just might be a trend setter.

 

[hotrod98]

The very first car to have a Superbird wing was the 69 Road Runner. Creative Industries, July 1969.

 

[alleyoopmgv]

The very first car to have a Superbird wing was the 69 Road Runner. Creative Industries, July 1969.

Cool stuff!

 

[Chris-Turbo]

Great car but without the wing plz.

 

[hotrod98]

Great car but without the wing plz.

I've driven this car all over town for the last 10 years and no one ever even acted like they even noticed or cared. Now for the last week everyone has been talking about our car. They all love it and think that it's a new car in town. The kids yell from the school buses and the carhops all tell me how much they love my new hotrod. I own 12 musclecars and drive them all and even though my cudas stand out, I really enjoy driving this one more. It gets more attention. I'm building a daytona clone that's almost finished and I've gathered most of the parts to build my wife a superbird clone. Can't wait to drive them.
Chrysler was the first to install a superbird wing on a 1969 Roadrunner and if it was good enough for ma mopar, it's good enough for me.
You can buy this car from me and remove the wing and save a road Runner. Send $25,000 to me and I'll help the transport guy load it up and you can be the proud new owner of a wingless plain jane everyday Road Runner.
E-mail me for info on where to send your money.

Note: I own a restoration company and can have this car back to original in one day. No harm done.

 

[66_B_Body4ever]

Have fun bud, it's only sheet metal. Love the mockup picture...very cool.

 

[hotrod98]

Have fun bud, it's only sheet metal. Love the mockup picture...very cool.

Thanks.
That's exactly what I keep telling everyone. The wing can be removed and the sheet metal repaired back to like new. Some day......
Some people just freak out. :yes:

 

[kidsixpack]

I will say that the general public will like the wing, but the Mopar faithfull will not car for it. I 'm sorry but I'd pass it up at a show not because the wing looks bad, but because after seeing the wing I would assume that the rest of the car may be questionable. IMHO
I love B5 Runners! If the car was for sale and I knew it had the wing on an otherwise correct car, it would not keep me from buying the car!
KID

 

[66_B_Body4ever]

Certain cars should be left well enough alone indeed. I have seen many hemi cars tubbed out which is a little hard to swallow as an example. At the end of the day it's your car. Not many cars we own today are virgins (giggle) and are full of bodywork and replacement parts. (yes it's true, some parts aren't even made in north america!) I love an original low production number car looking like she just rolled off the showroom floor but those babies are way out of my reach and I'd be scared to drive them. I have already had a guy scowl at me for modifying the Belvy...it's an original 318 car for cryin out loud!!! Ha!
Just my 2 cents...

 

[hotrod98]

This old runner is no where near as nice of a car as the pics make it out to be. The paint is almost non-existent. It has numerous dings,dents and rust bubbles and the driveline is not original to the car. The seats have repro covers that were installed in the 80's and now they're coming apart. Half of the headliner is missing and the door trim panels are coming apart. It's an old everyday run of the mill Roadrunner that belongs to me and will probably not be sold while I'm alive. In fact it probably won't be sold by my son or my grandson either. We drilled a few holes in the top of the quarter panels and bolted the wing on. We can always take it off and weld up the holes. No one would ever know. What harm has it caused?
We drive the car almost every day now and it never fails to attract attention. We hardly ever chose this car to drive before. We would usually pick one of our cudas or one of our Trans Ams. Now when we come out of a restauraunt or a store, there is almost always someone looking at the car. They love it.
There are very few Mopar faithfuls around this part of the world. I probably own more mopars than the other 250,000 people that live in this area combined and that's not an exaggeration. This wing has been the best thing that has ever happened to this old pile since the day it was built. It gave it a new look and a new life that it never had before. I've taken this runner to car shows around here over the last few years and people would walk right by it. I'll bet they don't walk right by it now.
Once I've finished my Daytona clone and my wife's Superbird clone, we may take the wing off of the runner and hang it on the wall with all of the other wingcar parts that we have left over from past projects. I plan to restore the car eventually anyway. But, for now, we're having fun. :grin:

 

[66_B_Body4ever]

Right on Mopar Brother!

 

[hotrod98]

Certain cars should be left well enough alone indeed. I have seen many hemi cars tubbed out which is a little hard to swallow as an example. At the end of the day it's your car. Not many cars we own today are virgins (giggle) and are full of bodywork and replacement parts. (yes it's true, some parts aren't even made in north america!) I love an original low production number car looking like she just rolled off the showroom floor but those babies are way out of my reach and I'd be scared to drive them. I have already had a guy scowl at me for modifying the Belvy...it's an original 318 car for cryin out loud!!! Ha!
Just my 2 cents...

I had a couple of 63 Belvederes with 318 polys. I wish I had kept them. They were kind of cool.

 

[cptn60]

We drive the car almost every day now. But, for now, we're having fun. :grin:

That's what it's all about, bro!:yes:

 

[hotrod98]

That's what it's all about, bro!:yes:

I'm always trying to convince people that they should go out and live life. Don't wait for tomorrow.

Peter Sellers said it best:
"If you don't live before you die, you'll die before you've lived".

 

[dcmopar]

about 20 years ago i saw a large yellow wing sticking up in traffic, and followed it. it parking next to a mcdonalds and the uniformed teenager went running into work. i don't remember if it was a 68 or 69 roadrunner (or could have even been a satelite), but it really made the car stand out. at the time i had not seen any repop superbird parts, and i remember thinking that the wing was probably worth more than the whole rest of the car.
the car was an attention getter, and the kid obviously had a ball driving it.
good for him! at one time i thought about building a 74 daytona charger but never did it, then a few yers ago my son showed me an article in hotrod where someone built one. it looked good also. they make a kit for it, i think it is dayclona than makes it. Doug

 

[hotrod98]

about 20 years ago i saw a large yellow wing sticking up in traffic, and followed it. it parking next to a mcdonalds and the uniformed teenager went running into work. i don't remember if it was a 68 or 69 roadrunner (or could have even been a satelite), but it really made the car stand out. at the time i had not seen any repop superbird parts, and i remember thinking that the wing was probably worth more than the whole rest of the car.
the car was an attention getter, and the kid obviously had a ball driving it.
good for him! at one time i thought about building a 74 daytona charger but never did it, then a few yers ago my son showed me an article in hotrod where someone built one. it looked good also. they make a kit for it, i think it is dayclona than makes it. Doug

Mike Goyette with dayclona is a great guy. I've bought many wingcar parts from him and they've all been top notch.
I just bought a 68 Road Runner and I may have to put a wing on it. We drive our 69 just about every day now. We were over in Fort Smith picking up car parts today and I was surprised at how many people honk at us every where we go. They all give a thumbs up for the car. Big difference from when we drove it before. No one ever even noticed the car before adding the wing.

Here's a couple of pics of a yellow 68 with a wing. Would love to know where it is today.

 

[Hemi Time]

looks cool ,mate if your happy Im happy. If we were all had the same taste the world would be boring....lets not get to serious their only old cars.

 

[hotrod98]

We like to stand out in a crowd. My wife and I have always had musclecars of some kind. Even though our Cudas are pretty much stock except for aftermarket wheels, they stand out on their own just because no on sees many cudas out driving around. The roadrunners, while fairly rare, don't seem to stand out. Kind of like comparing Torinos to Mustangs or Monte Carlos to Camaros. The wing changed all of that.

Now my Daytona will stand out. Big, black and menacing.

I've always said that we don't really own these cars...we're just temporary caretakers.