Bruno Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Alright, this one will is a very special build to me. I decided to build a replica of the 1:1 '71 Super Bee my brother had. This car was very special. It is believed to be the very first '71 Super Bee that came out the assembly line and had some features that were not available on a '71 Super Bee (for example, the charcoal gray/black interior was not available with FE5 red body color). That car was destined to be destroyed by Chrysler, but it somehow slipped out the door and was sold right here in Granby, Quebec. Those old Mopars all had a fender tag on the left front inner fender where option codes are listed, but this car had another fender tag on the right side with "1st job rramed" written on it. According to the Mopar specialist (can't remember his name but he his well known among Mopar fans) who decoded both tags, this is a typo and we should read "1st job framed". Anyway, the car was FE5 red with stripe delete option (only had the hood blackout), ramcharger hood, charcoal gray/black interior with bucket seats/console, it had a 440 six pack with automatic transmission. The car was featured in Mopar Muscle in '95, I did scan the pages so here's the article; Now to the model. I used the AMT '71 Charger kit, also bought the street machine kit to get the ramcharger hood and bazooka exhaust tips. I filled the door "gills" on the Charger body. Also got a resin superbee rear bumper, along with resin bucket seats/console, scratchbuilt T-handle shifter, sideview mirrors and 440 six pack from a Challenger kit. Paint is automotive basecoat / clearcoat and Keith Marks decals. Now I only need to get some hood pins
Space Cowboy Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Bruno an outstanding build and a great tribute to a Mopar once owned by your brother..It looks like the real thing a super job..
RodneyBad Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Great looking SuperBee.. You did an Outstanding job replicating it. Great work..
caine440 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Absolutely love it! Brings back good memories. A friend had a 383 71 Bee while I had a 70 440+6 Roadrunner. Wow how we wish we had those cars back! Great job on the build!
rustybill1960 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 :D "SWEETNESS DUDE!!!" I had forgot about that design, I got me a Road runner build , that year planned,but, "now", Thanks to your awesome build Dude!! I got me another one!!! SWEET!! I love what you have done! TOTALLY AWESOME MAN!!!! Thank You for sharing!! Later Dude Russ
jedimastergary Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 cool one Like how real it looks I think Super bee's a re my third favorite car hada couple models a '69 and 2-'70 lost the body for one '70 and the other was a mess and was in a box that got lost when I moved not sure what happened to the '69, the '70I have parts of has been a donor for my General Lee i made into a regular charger gave some small parts to it, as most of the super bee is built frame and interior just waiting for me to go get the body.
sjordan2 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 A truly expert and beautiful piece of work. Do you have any interior shots?
hemithunder Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 According to the Mopar specialist (can't remember his name but he his well known among Mopar fans) Bruno,is it Galen Govier? He is a big Mopar decoder. BTW nice build.
Bruno Posted March 28, 2010 Author Posted March 28, 2010 A truly expert and beautiful piece of work. Do you have any interior shots? No, I wanted to finish this one so bad I forgot to take pictures of the interior before installing the body
Bruno Posted March 28, 2010 Author Posted March 28, 2010 According to the Mopar specialist (can't remember his name but he his well known among Mopar fans) Bruno,is it Galen Govier? He is a big Mopar decoder. BTW nice build. YES! That's him! I couldn't remember his name. Thanks
hemithunder Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 YES! That's him! I couldn't remember his name. Thanks
tuffone20 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) That's a very nice build and great story about it!! Came out looking awesome!! BTW you say your brother had? Do you mean he sold it? Edited March 28, 2010 by tuffone20
Bruno Posted March 28, 2010 Author Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) That's a very nice build and great story about it!! Came out looking awesome!! BTW you say your brother had? Do you mean he sold it? Yup, he sold it many years ago. He wanted a racecar, so now he has a '64 Dodge 330 Max Wedge and races in the stock eliminator classes. I will be building a replica of this one too in the future. Edited March 28, 2010 by Bruno
whale392 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Beautiful build.........and it is Galen Govier who does the Mopar decoding. When we had the 63 Plymouth Sport Fury Vert, we had him decode it and it came back as a 1 of 1 built for a Chrysler executive (what made it weird was it had a 318Poly with a 4speed hooked to it). This car suffered an unknown fate as we took it to the body shop for restoration and one night the shop just 'poof' vanished with all of the inventory...no notice or forwarding address.
larman Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Outstanding, I love the B body Mopars, and you did a great job on this one!
Greg Cullinan Posted March 29, 2010 Posted March 29, 2010 That's one serious Mopar and sure came out nice.A perfect tribute.
oldscool Posted March 29, 2010 Posted March 29, 2010 That is one nice charger! It looks just like the real thing oldscool
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