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Every Detail That Makes the Plymouth Road Runner Superbird Special
Road & Track ^
| 22 Aug, 2016
| CHRIS PERKINS
Posted on 08/22/2016 7:52:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
08/22/2016 7:53:03 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
I almost bought a bright yellow Plymouth Superbee 383 in the summer of ‘69...but decided to join the Army instead (with encouragement from my draft board).
To: MtnClimber
That’s one ugly car....that I wished I owned.
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posted on
08/22/2016 7:59:09 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(You hurt my family...you better watch your six.)
To: MtnClimber
Came home from overseas and my brother took me to a race in Rockingham. Richard Petty won driving a 67 Plymouth Roadrunner, color, Petty blue. Had to have one, so I bought the car. A couple years later, wife told me she was tired of being the first one off at the stoplight and made me trade it. I did so love that car.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:02:02 PM PDT
by
looois
To: moose07
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:02:07 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(JRandomFreeper, SWAMPSNIPER RIP)
To: MtnClimber
A friend of mine went for a ride in one when he was in high school. He confirmed the $10 bill on the dash rumor. His wife heard the story for the first time when he told me they topped out at 190 mph.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:04:54 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
To: looois
Wife had a problem withere being First ???
Can only imagine what happened to Her!
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:07:20 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: Osage Orange
"Thats one ugly car....that I wished I owned."
Almost as bad as the cars from "UFO":
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:13:09 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: MtnClimber
I sure miss my 69 road runner fun car long handled slow shifter
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:13:27 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: PLMerite
Great series got them all on DVDs and the lady outfits we’re awesome
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:14:41 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: al baby
Yeah, me too. Gotta love the miniskirts and purple hair.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:20:02 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:24:16 PM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
To: Gay State Conservative
Got hit by a train...or..we ran into the train in a Superbee.
I wasn't the driver.....But the driver...drove that baby perfect....
It's a long story.
We all... three of us...survived,.,,No injuries.
Drove it back to town...
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:24:59 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(You hurt my family...you better watch your six.)
To: MtnClimber
Even cooler was this 1963 Chrysler
with a gas turbine engine.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:29:02 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: Osage Orange
He missed one detail; in the trunk there is a set of steel u-channels which form the support for the wing. Early test models without them would end up with wrinkles in the quarter panels from the 300+ pounds of downforce the wing would generate. The support ties the frame rails to the underside of the top of the quarter panel, where a large (12” x 24” approx) “washer” sat supporting the wing.
To: Osage Orange
The video doesn’t give a full picture of the engines the Superbird could have. It came standard with the 440 cu. in. Plymouth engine, while the 440 2300 Holleys carbureted six barrel engine was one rung up the ladder. The top optional engine was the 426 duel quads Hemi. I saw one of the first examples of the Superbird at Dick Green Chysler-Plymouth on Gratiot on the east side of Detroit in about 1969 on my sting-ray bike. It was yellow with white quarter panel letters and was unlike any car I’d ever seen at my young age. Pretty cool stuff for a budding Mopar man.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:33:18 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: CarmichaelPatriot
Interesting. I like how you could adjust the wing angle.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:35:22 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Plymouth did not make Superbees. Dodge made them in '68,'69, '70, and '71.
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posted on
08/22/2016 8:40:45 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: gigster
You’re right. Plymouth made the GTX. My brother had one with the 440, 4 speed with solid lifters. What a great car.
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posted on
08/22/2016 9:02:37 PM PDT
by
ssapro
(SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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