..................................................1967 Plymouth Valiant.................................................
.................................................1967 Dodge Dart...........................................................
Posted on 09/29/2018 6:57:49 AM PDT by ETL
Sometimes a bird in the hand will get you two in the bush. And by “bush” I mean garage.
An Ebay seller is currently auctioning a pair of 1970 Plymouth Superbirds that were stored for over 30 years until he purchased them after a chance meeting last month.
He’d just paid $187,000 for another one of the iconic muscle cars at a car auction in Maine when someone sidled up to him and told him about his secret stash.
Within days, he’d bought the pair for an undisclosed amount and dug them out of the cluttered, dusty garage they’d been sitting in.
The man who sold them was only the second owner, having picked them up in 1978. But he let their registrations expire in the mid-1980s and they’ve been parked ever since.
Aside from getting resprays, both are nearly all original and have numbers-matching 440 cubic-inch V8s with four-barrel carburetors. One is equipped with a manual transmission, the other an automatic, and they have just 27,000 and 42,000 miles on their odometers.
They haven’t run in all these years, but their mechanic owner filled them with pure anti-freeze and Marvel Mystery Oil before he put them away.
Their bodies remain straight, but the interior of one is in much better condition than the other. Apparently, that’s not much of an issue to collectors.
As of this writing, the bidding on each car has surpassed $125,000, and may go much higher before the auctions end in a week. According to the Hagerty Price Guide, the cars are worth over $250,000 if fully restored.
And don’t think the seller doesn’t know that. He’s set reserves on the cars that have not yet been met.
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Do you remember where the car was parked?
Yup, that’s it. Only 2 were made that year, and one was destroyed, so it is the only one remaining. And it’s been restored to factory-pristine condition.
Watching how they mated the powertrain to the rest of the car (lowering the car onto the engine/transmission/K-Member, the way the factory did it) was exciting, given that the Hemi is such a huge engine, there were only a few millimeters clearance on either side.
Mark
I’m Old enough to remember when the Car Dealers couldn’t give them away. The Amazing Kreskin I’m not, that’s for sure.
Yup. The sheet metal is even closer than Mopar brand sibling cars. However, unlike Mopars, GM brands had their own engines, so the Camaro and Firebird were not mechanically the same. Different bolt patern on the the transmission bell housing too. Also, the Firebird’s suspension was lower.
..................................................1967 Plymouth Valiant.................................................
.................................................1967 Dodge Dart...........................................................
Oh yeah. On B’way in Astoria, Queens (NYC) across the street from Winnie The Pooh’s Pub.
64 Valiant
64 Dart<>
Kinda weird turning these into a hot rod
The hot rod pics are Valiant and then Dodge Dart
Sorry...to clarify, a teardrop shape like an ugly Ford Taurus, which came much later, was eventually discovered to be more aerodynamic. There were really no contemporaries of the Superbird that met that description.
I agree. I always preferred the “sleeper” muscle cars rather than the over the top hot rods.
So, more than 40 years after the incident, you can probably pin down the date within a day, and know the exact location where it happened. I’d say that, but for the statute of limitations, you’ve got more for the FBI to go on than Dr. Blazey Ford has.
Had never heard of it, so looked it up...
Yeah, they were ugly as sin from day 1. 50+ years later, they're still ugly as sin.
But I like "innocent looking" cars turned into mean hot rods.
The early-mid Chevy Nova is among my favorites in this category. '60s Ford Falcons, too.
Truth to tell; I’d forgotten about them! :-)
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