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68Bee
10-01-2012, 07:08 PM
Hi all,

Recently I became the lucky owner of a 1968 super bee. The car was passed down to me from my dad, whos owned it since he was about 20 years old. He built it over a 7 year period himself (i helped but I was like 5, so "hold this, get me a wrench" was the extent of it) with one thing in mind, and that was to be the baddest thing in town. In its day, the mid to late 90s, it was.

Ive been around cars all my life, slowly progressing my skills to the point now I feel pretty confident as a diy-er, from pretty extreme fabrication to basic mechanics, and wiring etc.. Jack of all trades, ace of none type of deal. Ive had some cool cars in my day, like a 73 triumph spitfire with a 2.3 ford turbo, 65 bonneville, a vega.... A ton of stuff your adverage 25 year old knows nothing about

Currently, its a 383 4spd car, the engine being built by me n pops, with litterly less then 30 miles on it still. Its got a dana 60 outback with 4:86s, and huge meats to put the gears to use. The cars lightened severely, with fiberglass everything. The nee motors not super stout, but moderate build.

My plans for the car involve a lot of hard work, lol. My goals are a turboed efi monster with great drivability and decent comfort that wont fall apart in a turn. But for now, heres what I got :cool:

Thanks dad!!

SRD art
10-02-2012, 09:52 AM
Welcome aboard, and cool story. Nice to see cars stay in the family. Huge meats? What size, and are you converting to P-T or sticking with the drag look?

68Bee
10-03-2012, 09:28 AM
The tires are 28x13s or so, hoosier quick time pros. Theyre basically slicks with 3 treads. The car hooks increddibly hard, and at one time, could pull the skinnys of the pavement. The tires look small, but the wheel wells were stretched to make them appear that way.

I intend on going more pro touring.

Currently, its on the radical edge of streetability, with no wipers, glass doors with no windows, manual drum brakes, zero timing curve, and no creature comforts aside from the heat from the uninsulated floorboards. Its a true mans car, built on a budget.

I intend on instAlling a plc into the car, and fully rewiring the car to fully integraate it.

The plc would allow me to program the car and install all kinds of neat gadgets. Anything from the sillyest of delay wipers, to remote start with safteys, alarm, sneaky anti theft devises, monitor every aspect of evetything, even create a personalized HUD if I really wanted. Programmable tunable gauges (swap tires, push button, speedo is correct again) litterly whatever I can dream, I can do.

This of course, being a stand alone system seperate from engine controlls, ,but very capable of interraction with it if I wanted to do so.

Eventually, the car will be a complete different animal, but this is my start point.

The main goals will be drivabiliity and some emphesis on comfort. It will not be a true pro touring car, because it wont be built for handleing. Suspension upgrades will be done, of course, but launch is more important to me than twistys. It will kind of in sort bridge the gap between drag race, and road race, but with the pro touring vibe.

BMR Sales
10-04-2012, 06:25 AM
Welcome to the site...... there are some great Mopars builds here.