Posted on 08/03/2015 10:26:26 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Al Boughton paid $135,000 for his 1970 Plymouth Superbird seven years ago and what a kick it was, driving the most high-winged, cone-nosed, eye-popping, breath-stealing muscle car ever fashioned in Detroit, with its 450-horsepower V-8 and beep-beep Road Runner horn. In fact, last September, he realized it was so good, he had to make it perfect, and perfection meant returning it exactly to original form, just as it had left the Lynch Road, Mich., assembly line in 1969.
With the stripped chassis trussed to a rotisserie at Davies Autobody in Etobicoke, he pointed to the firewall as an example of measures taken over these last nine months. “Looking into the engine compartment, the firewall looked fine,” he said.
“As soon as you lay down on the floor, you could see where it had been patched where the air-conditioning had come into the car. If you’re a purist and you see a patch hacked like that, ‘Mmmm,’ you think, ‘what else has been hacked?’ We replaced the firewall.”
The Superbird’s 15th owner is a sleuth for details, which makes him confident that the 31,250 miles showing on the 45-year-old odometer is an accurate reading. Likewise, he knows it’s a true story, that the eighth owner of the car suffered from narcolepsy to the point he feared falling asleep at the wheel while running 150 miles an hour.
“This is probably the best-documented Superbird in the world,” he said, leafing through a six-inch-thick binder.
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That is Plymouth Tor-Red, which is actually Orange, not to be confused with Plymouth "Vitamin C" which was also a shade of Orange.
Pontiac started this trend with "Carousel Red" on the GTO which is also Orange.
Dodge called Plymouth Tor-red "Hemi Orange".
So who does the hatchet work for Chrysler?
Do they use their own people or do they contract the work out to a Tong?
dear nas,
If i’m going down a track with ‘more horses’, it will be in a rail dragster. I saw Tommy Ivo’s and Daddy Don Garlits’ machines up close, personal, and running.
Lee Petty had a blue one that he would drive around Greensboro.
Could be the Pontiac Aztec’s maternal grandfather.
The nose piece never looked like it fit properly. Looked like someone’s backyard special.
I wonder how many Hellcat’s have been wrecked already?
LOL! The Aztec was indeed a clusterf*ck. Makes the AMC Pacer look elegant.
I’m sitting on my originally purchased,1970 Challenger 440 RT/SE, in storage since(Divorce) in 1974. Due to error in purchase/build documents it has AT on wheel, not console. Great for dating!
Unless I win(Ha) the lottery it goes to my eldest. If I should win the lottery it goes to Harbor Restoration, Rockledge, Fl..
“Could be the Pontiac Aztec’s maternal grandfather.”
LOL. Is there an uglier car ?
I had a friend, Slim, in Applelton Wisconsin. He raced the Pro Funny Car Circuit. He had me sit in his car one day as he was showing off the engine to a potential buyer. I had to press both hands on my knee to keep my leg straight, and the clutch disengaged! Very exciting for me, and very amusing for Slim, who was a huge guy!
I think the author needs some learning about cars.
68 camaro/firebird were very clean designs.
And the Daytona would be lapping the MG at...Daytona.
Must be a real nightmare to park one of those winged Mopars in a compact-car space.
What I said:fast in a straight line, which is all most “super speedways” effectively are.
I saw real versions of that car run at Darlington back in the early 70s.
Petty wasn’t driving his when he did his triple flip on the front straight. I saw parts of a car I never thought I would see that day.
Superbirds were one of the stupidest looking cars to ever hit the road. (and I used to be a Mopar fan)
There's a lesson in there somewhere
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