SEMA 2017, in the Sherwin-Williams booth. I�m Jason Bair, owner of Bair Customs out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I�d like to show you guys this beautiful 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner. I�m calling it the �Raging Bird.� This car started life as a factory �69 Roadrunner. But it wasn't good enough for us. We wanted to take it up a notch, add a little more power, add a little more handling, add a crazy custom color from Sherwin-Williams. We really started with a clean car to begin with. One of the cleanest ones I've ever really found in California. The car had all original sheet metal on it. We decided to pull that thing down, throw this crazy Sherwin-Williams paint job on it. We really started by doing some sheet metal repair. The car was so clean that you would normally hang quarters, fix the trunk, all those things. This thing hardly needed anything. Threw it on the rotisserie. We actually did a, kind of a gravel guard line, lining on the underside that Sherwin uses. We actually tinted the color to match the paint on the topside. The paint was kind of the focal point of the car. We wanted to do a purple, but we weren't really sure where we wanted to go. I actually had the Sherwin branch help me take the plum crazy purple, add some extras to it. We actually created a tricoat for this thing.
We're calling it Purple Rage. And you guys can see just in the show and the different lighting, and things like that, it changes on ya. In the sun this color, it just explodes. It really does. And purple just seems to be kind of a popular color right now and seems to go with the theme of this car. When you get a cool car for the cool color, you�ve got to have a cool engine as well. The supercharged Hemi seems to be a very popular engine right now with the Hellcat coming out. We had Arrington help us with this engine. We took a six point four liter, stroked to a seven liter. We used the whipple supercharger and this engine makes 857 horsepower, at the crank almost 800 foot pounds of torque. It is a monster. Tremec six speed behind it. We actually many of the car so we could get a little bigger tire underneath there. You got to help get a little bit of traction at least when you're in first gear. But it drives like it looks. That was really important to us. Got to have some horsepower. Got to have the cool wheels and I think we hit it out of park. You know I got to thank Sherwin-Williams for the opportunity to be in the SEMA booth and we'd love to be back any time they'll have us. SEMA 2017, I�m Jason Bair with Bair Customs. The Raging Bird.
