Well we try and respect them, but sometimes the need for the smell of racing fuel, the sound of an open-headered Hemi, and the bass of the elephant motor overwhelm us. Can't beat that effect.
I bought a car off of Mike Hill, who was the previous owner, not long ago. He told me quite a bit about this car and its history, great guy. I'm thrilled to see it in another collectors hands being taken care of. Absolutely love the design portrayed on this bird.
It's been awhile since I listened to a big block Mopar with open headers. It brings back a lot of fond memories. The hemi would be a long louder than my 383 with open headers. Your collection of Wing cars are awesome!!
I swear that I saw this car in Franklin IN on June 12th at the car show on the square. A kid was leaning the fender without a care in the world. My thought was if it gets scratched, it will not get color matched.
I'm normally all about keeping cars original as possible and unrestored Etc. But the fact that this paint job adds so much character and is a product of the time makes it so cool and unique. What a unique story. Awesome car.
I looked for the Mr 5 and 50 bird for over 10 years. Yes I lived in Maryland. I had a hemi orange six pack superbee that I used to take out every so often. A guy out if the blue came up to me and told me where the car was. It's a long story but I almost had that hemi bird bought as I stood in the garage with Ken talking about it I still get chills thinking about it. At the same time I had a 69 road runner with a superbird wing on it. The wing was put on by creative industry as I had the doc for the install. If you want to talk I could tell you a good story and the werst hemi bird.
20 years ago I restored a hemi 4 speed Superbird, one of 72, Petty blue. At the shows they said I over restored it because I fixed the large door gaps and fit.
Yep-I have heard that before. These cars were not that well assembled as you know. When I had the nose off of the Daytona in 1 of the other videos a friend of mine commented on "who did that crappy paint job?" and I told him that would be the manufacturer! Some of the show judges are that way!
1500 miles,a 1/4 mile at a time. That's a LOT of 1/4 mile passes! LOL I don't believe any of the Ford Boss 302's,Boss 351's or Boss 429's ever came with an automatic. Please don't hate on me,I've been a Ford fan since 1970,but I still enjoy many of the cars of the Big 3!
Not as many passes as you may be thinking, 1/4 mile race, thena 1/8 to 1/4 mile shutdown area, plus the return road back to the pits, staging lanes, and starting line. So about one mile per pass at a 1/4 mile track, but did it see any action at the 1/8 mile tracks around the country?
That's an awesome piece of history. Running leaded race gas in the motor I assume? Sounds good. Those old, high compression motors barely start/run on our new unleaded gas w/ethanol in it. There is a 112oct unleaded fuel you can get, but that's more for turbo/low compression motors. I got VP distributor and Sunoco Race Fuel Distribution near me(they supply Cecil dragway to Pocono and Atco and beyond). I've played w/different fuels and my friends w/high compression big cubic inch motors found old C16 works best in their cars. Or, they can't get cars started and run like crap when try to run an unleased 93oct for a short time like at a show. Don't wanna waste C16 idling , lol.
Gonna have to do a lot of trailering or car hauling to keep the mileage down. Oh yeah don’t forget the dollies that go under the tires to move around the shop and other concrete floors. 1501.0 is still along way off if done correctly.
I am a huge Superbird fan and had wanted to turn my 1970 Satellite into a Clone Bird but was too much money at the time I had it. I think the paint job on this Bird is ugly , but that was the thing at that time , but I never subscribed to it even back then . Keep those type of paint jobs on full size customized vans only . Besides the paint it is like a brand new vehicle
Car looks great runs great and sounds great what more could you ask for? The car is basically brand new especially with that brand new transmission id assume that's the only major part that isn't stock
@@sergeantmasson3669 if you think that's a clone something is clearly wrong with you... I meant more or less the body and motor I know the motor is built to hell and back but I bet it's what it came with. I'm no dodge boy so don't get upset at me 🤣
I'd drive the hell out of that car and it would never see a trailer..ya it's worth alot of money but me having fun and enjoying life is worth more..my daily driver is a 69 charger and im currently building a 69 roadrunner from scrap cars,life is short,the next guy can diaper wash my cars when I'm dead..but for now il drive the shit out of them!..drive them,your fun should be worth more to you than resale value!
Hey Bob. Me and Julie have been keeping an eye out for the video on this car. What a tease! She's the one you let sit in it in Franklin. So is the 1500 miles including the trip to Franklin and back? You did say you drove it here didn't you? Did it make the trip on old slicks or do you have some driver tires to put on it? Julie still talks about it and shows friends and family the pictures. She wants a car painted like that some day. 😂
But we didn’t hear it . Man Rev that thing. take it on the road to a nice empty road . And just Floor it . Come on making that thing scream let’s go. All you are doing is saving that car for some other guy , He’s going to buy it from your relatives after you’re gone. And eventually in that line of guys somebody’s going to get on it ,and they’re going to Floor it . and they’re gonna enjoy it ,and it’s gonna be amazing. that’s what you’re missing out on. Buy some GoPro suction cups ,put the GoPro‘s on and go for it.
The werst bird was never titled They had the CO from what I was told. I almost want to say ken told me the car was a body in white? Also the engine was moved rearward like 5 inches.
That SuperBird has gone through 4 or 5 owners, it's had the shit run out of it. This isn't to mention the inside of the car is worn out, and the fact that the paint job looks like some 16 year old kid with 3 or 4 cans of spray paint worked it over in his backyard, OH YEAH, it's wonderful alright, this car has had the Hell beat out of it, it was once a beautiful car, now it's a 50 year old piece of JUNK an that's the truth!!!!! 🙈
Ha ouais direct en échappement libre, elle fait plus de bruit que ma Panhard 24 BT 1965. Super bird, bip bip. Little frenchi lover american cars, go team penske NASCAR, mustang car dream, sorry for the american script, a im born 1954. God bless America. Congratulations amazing car Super bird.
@@garyb5796 if it sounds like that with open headers then with a full exhaust it would basically have no lope. It needs a more radical cam to go with the cars look. Engine must be different from when it was raced.
@@mysterycomment1553 It's just the standard 10.5 to 1 flat top pistons with a thin steel headgasket factory HP Cam. If you can't hear it @4:29 your deaf. Put the exhaust back on it and you'll hear it crackel in the headers as you watch it idel from under the hood at the same time.
@@garyb5796 don’t care it’s mellow. Not a lot of crackle. Even a stock 383 has that same crackle this hemi has with open headers. Real cam you would hear a healthy crackle out the exhaust not just the crackle at the headers. This was supposed to be a race car.
Great car, but I definitely would restore it to it's 1970 championship paint scheme. This paint isn't historically significant and is not very attractive.
My favorite color is blue. In about 1969-70, all the Memphis cop cars were B5 blue, maybe to match the blue Mickey Mouse lights, I dunno. They were Coronets, if I remember correctly. As a little kid, I loved that sh*t to death! AND they were Mopars! Having said all that, I think this paint job is the bee's knees. Not only because it reflects the period, but more importantly, because it looks so damn cool! 😃
Only 135 Hemi Superbirds were ever factory produced and highly doubt that this is one of them. Chrysler sold an aero-package kit for a 1970 Roadrunner over-the-counter. If this is a real Plymouth Hemi Superbird, it should be restored to original stock condition correctly. A real Hemi Superbird is worth near $550,000 in factory stock condition. Jeff Dunham, the comedian, has one.
The above comment is the kind that misleads real fans. To clarify the mistakes in the above comment: First: This is an "R" code Superbird-that means a Hemi, documented with 2 build sheets, complete documented history with owner history and verification and title copy tracing to when sold by Chrysler and has been invited to display at the Chrysler nationals in July after numerous other displays. It has been certified as original by both of the 2 Chrysler nationally acknowledged experts, neither of whom are the commenter. It has been acknowledged by numerous Mopar and other publications (well over 50) going back for 50 years as an original Hemi Superbird. Second: You quote 135 Hemi Superbirds being made. No one can verify that number, including the national aero warriors association or various Chrysler engineers, even though Google and others show it. No one knows, particularly Google. The NASCAR certified list of Superbirds shows 93. That list is available-I have a copy of it, and it can occasionally be purchased on Ebay. Perhaps it is correct, perhaps 135 is correct, or perhaps somewhere in between. Just because Google says it does not make it so. Third: You state Chrysler sold an aero-package kit over the counter. I worked in Chrysler parts during the 1970's. We never sold such a kit, there was no such kit from Chrysler. Aftermarket developers such as Janak and others have since developed fiberglass kits, and some individuals have actually made a few 3rd party steel noses available from them directly. Fourth-Yes Jeff Dunham owns a Hemi Superbird. So do I. Fifth: Restore to original. Your opinion is of course your opinion but I choose to leave it as a time capsule of history of 1 of somewhere around 100+- Hemi Superbirds made, but still wearing the nostalgic paint job from that era.
No way... How many restored Superbirds are out there? A bunch (relatively) How many unrestored survivors? Very few. How many still sporting all of their period modifications? Even less. Park this alongside 10 restored originals that all look alike... This one is the most interesting. Saw this car in person and it is awesome.
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those wild 70's paint jobs are so cool ....
Ain’t they?
Looks like an old drag car
Drove it up the ramp truck like he's done it his whole life, knew exactly where the nose was. What a beast.
Love it i wouldn't change a thing except the title into my name
I can attest that this car is insanely loud! Love it guys
Beautiful car....your neighbours must love the open headers!!
Well we try and respect them, but sometimes the need for the smell of racing fuel, the sound of an open-headered Hemi, and the bass of the elephant motor overwhelm us. Can't beat that effect.
People with money like that usually have large pieces of property. So neighbors are a ways away.
I bought a car off of Mike Hill, who was the previous owner, not long ago. He told me quite a bit about this car and its history, great guy. I'm thrilled to see it in another collectors hands being taken care of. Absolutely love the design portrayed on this bird.
I agree Duston, Mike is a great guy. Thanks for the comment too.
I miss the 60’s & 70’s great times great cars & awesome music!!
The factory should have painted them like that. Lot of cool paint jobs back then. People actually worked on and customized their cars.
Yep, I saw that car at an aero meet at Welborn's in 2004 I think it was . Very cool machine .
Can’t help but smile with cars like these
It's been awhile since I listened to a big block Mopar with open headers. It brings back a lot of fond memories. The hemi would be a long louder than my 383 with open headers. Your collection of Wing cars are awesome!!
I swear that I saw this car in Franklin IN on June 12th at the car show on the square. A kid was leaning the fender without a care in the world. My thought was if it gets scratched, it will not get color matched.
Yea we just drove it up for a car show last weekend!
Beautiful Superbird! I couldn't sleep if I owned that incredible Plymouth. Mopar fan for life.
This is so cool to see and hear, a great part of automotive history !! Thank you !
Very cool car and some serious eye candy..👍
I'm normally all about keeping cars original as possible and unrestored Etc. But the fact that this paint job adds so much character and is a product of the time makes it so cool and unique. What a unique story. Awesome car.
Cool machine...wish you lived next door ...I really appreciate your great machines thanks !
That paint job is incredible!
I never thought a superbird could look cooler, i see i was wrong
Geometric,Lace patterns in paint back then was a sight to behold, saw it all at ATCO Dragway and World of Wheels car shows in Philly area.
My eyes lit up like Christmas trees after hearing that gorgeous machine run
Could fall asleep to that.
My GOODNESS
TIS A THING of BEAUTY
that car was at the 2019 Aero Reunion 50th Anniversary in Alexander, City- Alabama at the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum!
Very nice. Car looks like it could cut through a hurricane.
Love that license plate!
That is so wicked, just the way it is! Exciting to hear you found the original numbers Hemi for it now too!
I looked for the Mr 5 and 50 bird for over 10 years.
Yes I lived in Maryland. I had a hemi orange six pack superbee that I used to take out every so often. A guy out if the blue came up to me and told me where the car was. It's a long story but I almost had that hemi bird bought as I stood in the garage with Ken talking about it
I still get chills thinking about it.
At the same time I had a 69 road runner with a superbird wing on it.
The wing was put on by creative industry as I had the doc for the install.
If you want to talk I could tell you a good story and the werst hemi bird.
Saw this car at Madison's Memorial Day weekend car show. Beautiful! Hope to see it at New Washington later this year - another good show.
That plate 😂😂 super sick
Dang I just love that car. Love that car more then my ex-wife
Me too. I'd trade your ex-wife for this Superbird any day. 😉😇
Really love the superbird. Thanks for sharing. The Licence plate, Couldn`t stop laughing. Love it. LOL :)
20 years ago I restored a hemi 4 speed Superbird, one of 72, Petty blue. At the shows they said I over restored it because I fixed the large door gaps and fit.
Yep-I have heard that before. These cars were not that well assembled as you know. When I had the nose off of the Daytona in 1 of the other videos a friend of mine commented on "who did that crappy paint job?" and I told him that would be the manufacturer! Some of the show judges are that way!
Oh my lord that sound!!!! 😍😍😍😍
1500 miles,a 1/4 mile at a time. That's a LOT of 1/4 mile passes! LOL I don't believe any of the Ford Boss 302's,Boss 351's or Boss 429's ever came with an automatic. Please don't hate on me,I've been a Ford fan since 1970,but I still enjoy many of the cars of the Big 3!
Not as many passes as you may be thinking, 1/4 mile race, thena 1/8 to 1/4 mile shutdown area, plus the return road back to the pits, staging lanes, and starting line. So about one mile per pass at a 1/4 mile track, but did it see any action at the 1/8 mile tracks around the country?
Automatics were generally more popular with mopars
A lot 428 and 429 cj engines were c6 equipped
That's an awesome piece of history.
Running leaded race gas in the motor I assume? Sounds good. Those old, high compression motors barely start/run on our new unleaded gas w/ethanol in it.
There is a 112oct unleaded fuel you can get, but that's more for turbo/low compression motors.
I got VP distributor and Sunoco Race Fuel Distribution near me(they supply Cecil dragway to Pocono and Atco and beyond). I've played w/different fuels and my friends w/high compression big cubic inch motors found old C16 works best in their cars. Or, they can't get cars started and run like crap when try to run an unleased 93oct for a short time like at a show. Don't wanna waste C16 idling , lol.
Tim Richard's is one of the wickwdest crew chiefs ever I'd put it right back to what the car looked like when it won the tittle
Awesome car!
Gonna have to do a lot of trailering or car hauling to keep the mileage down. Oh yeah don’t forget the dollies that go under the tires to move around the shop and other concrete floors. 1501.0 is still along way off if done correctly.
Love it! ty for sharing!
I am a huge Superbird fan and had wanted to turn my 1970 Satellite into a Clone Bird but was too much money at the time I had it. I think the paint job on this Bird is ugly , but that was the thing at that time , but I never subscribed to it even back then . Keep those type of paint jobs on full size customized vans only . Besides the paint it is like a brand new vehicle
Car looks great runs great and sounds great what more could you ask for? The car is basically brand new especially with that brand new transmission id assume that's the only major part that isn't stock
I doubt that much of this car is stock. It's quite obvious that it's a clone and not a factory production car.
@@sergeantmasson3669 if you think that's a clone something is clearly wrong with you... I meant more or less the body and motor I know the motor is built to hell and back but I bet it's what it came with. I'm no dodge boy so don't get upset at me 🤣
this car was my cousin paul messemer's car he has since passed away
Would be neat to find out who did that paint job back in the day.
This car was at Carlisle in 2018
Only thing louder than exhaust is Chrysler starter.
That was totally awesome 👌 I am Pickle Chicken and I approve this message! Lol 😂
I'd drive the hell out of that car and it would never see a trailer..ya it's worth alot of money but me having fun and enjoying life is worth more..my daily driver is a 69 charger and im currently building a 69 roadrunner from scrap cars,life is short,the next guy can diaper wash my cars when I'm dead..but for now il drive the shit out of them!..drive them,your fun should be worth more to you than resale value!
FANTASTIC
Sweet!
That thing must be worth a fortune with so little mileage and the 426 HEMI.
Isn't the original engine though, but still valuable hell yeah
Most hemi cars are low mileage but they’re still wore out; racing takes a toll!
Totally awesome!
I’d have a mattress between the truck cab and front end…lol
"Gould".......
Any relation to "Gould's Pumps" in Seneca Falls New York?
That oilpan is beat.
Hey Bob. Me and Julie have been keeping an eye out for the video on this car. What a tease!
She's the one you let sit in it in Franklin.
So is the 1500 miles including the trip to Franklin and back? You did say you drove it here didn't you? Did it make the trip on old slicks or do you have some driver tires to put on it?
Julie still talks about it and shows friends and family the pictures. She wants a car painted like that some day. 😂
Cool
Magnificent
A good original car with one respray will always be worth more to me than a restored turd that will barely run under its own power!
Heaven😱❤❤👍👌
Gotta love em psycho muscles.
100th like!!! Beautiful Bird!
Thanks Mike! No prize for 100th though.
Those open headers would get you pulled over the first time you passed a cop.
Sweeeeet
Love it
Is the truck part of the combination or is that something y'all come up with
But we didn’t hear it . Man Rev that thing. take it on the road to a nice empty road . And just Floor it . Come on making that thing scream let’s go. All you are doing is saving that car for some other guy , He’s going to buy it from your relatives after you’re gone. And eventually in that line of guys somebody’s going to get on it ,and they’re going to Floor it . and they’re gonna enjoy it ,and it’s gonna be amazing. that’s what you’re missing out on. Buy some GoPro suction cups ,put the GoPro‘s on and go for it.
Couldn't give these things away in the 70s, lots were full of em, they were homely vehicles then, and they still are today.
The werst bird was never titled
They had the CO from what I was told.
I almost want to say ken told me the car was a body in white?
Also the engine was moved rearward like 5 inches.
The engine could not be moved back that far without noticeable modifications.
Nice ride! Hope those front wheels aren't original....that chain was pulled through them like they were scrap.
had 2 watch 2x cool car
wow
NASCAR made them quit using it because it out ran and out classed the whole field
1500 miles 1/4 mile at a time. He'll Yaaa
Lol exhaust tips and open headers.
Sounds quiet for open headers.
4in same oil pn dents in mine lolol.cool car
Old drag race cars seldom have correct odometer readings due to gear changes and people not hooking the cable back up!
I wanna be his grandson. I swear to God I'll do anything.
rear tires huge tubed?
That SuperBird has gone through 4 or 5 owners, it's had the shit run out of it. This isn't to mention the inside of the car is worn out, and the fact that the paint job looks like some 16 year old kid with 3 or 4 cans of spray paint worked it over in his backyard, OH YEAH, it's wonderful alright, this car has had the Hell beat out of it, it was once a beautiful car, now it's a 50 year old piece of JUNK an that's the truth!!!!! 🙈
Ha ouais direct en échappement libre, elle fait plus de bruit que ma Panhard 24 BT 1965. Super bird, bip bip. Little frenchi lover american cars, go team penske NASCAR, mustang car dream, sorry for the american script, a im born 1954. God bless America. Congratulations amazing car Super bird.
You can differently hear the cam in it.
Sounds very mild.
@@mysterycomment1553 Just a Mild Lope.
@@garyb5796 if it sounds like that with open headers then with a full exhaust it would basically have no lope. It needs a more radical cam to go with the cars look. Engine must be different from when it was raced.
@@mysterycomment1553 It's just the standard 10.5 to 1 flat top pistons with a thin steel headgasket factory HP Cam. If you can't hear it @4:29 your deaf. Put the exhaust back on it and you'll hear it crackel in the headers as you watch it idel from under the hood at the same time.
@@garyb5796 don’t care it’s mellow. Not a lot of crackle. Even a stock 383 has that same crackle this hemi has with open headers. Real cam you would hear a healthy crackle out the exhaust not just the crackle at the headers. This was supposed to be a race car.
Great car, but I definitely would restore it to it's 1970 championship paint scheme.
This paint isn't historically significant and is not very attractive.
Sounds like a bunch of chains rattling around
my roadrunnera12 had cool paint job but privouce ruined it . got it one coler again had cartoon and grarics
hands hurt sory spelling .its #42 in sixpac /6bbl regerstery
need spra7y money to get to track
I want your address because I want to buy your neighbor’s house😂
That video was about 5 minutes longer than needed.
Uncorked headers big fucking deal.
Sorry it should be put back to B5 blue,
B5 blue is boring.
Nope. Not every car needs to be a concourse restoration. This is 70s cool and it should stay that way.
My favorite color is blue. In about 1969-70, all the Memphis cop cars were B5 blue, maybe to match the blue Mickey Mouse lights, I dunno. They were Coronets, if I remember correctly. As a little kid, I loved that sh*t to death! AND they were Mopars! Having said all that, I think this paint job is the bee's knees. Not only because it reflects the period, but more importantly, because it looks so damn cool! 😃
Wat a horrific color they’ve done…. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
sounds mean but horible paint,
Only 135 Hemi Superbirds were ever factory produced and highly doubt that this is one of them. Chrysler sold an aero-package kit for a 1970 Roadrunner over-the-counter. If this is a real Plymouth Hemi Superbird, it should be restored to original stock condition correctly. A real Hemi Superbird is worth near $550,000 in factory stock condition. Jeff Dunham, the comedian, has one.
The above comment is the kind that misleads real fans. To clarify the mistakes in the above comment:
First: This is an "R" code Superbird-that means a Hemi, documented with 2 build sheets, complete documented history with owner history and verification and title copy tracing to when sold by Chrysler and has been invited to display at the Chrysler nationals in July after numerous other displays. It has been certified as original by both of the 2 Chrysler nationally acknowledged experts, neither of whom are the commenter. It has been acknowledged by numerous Mopar and other publications (well over 50) going back for 50 years as an original Hemi Superbird.
Second: You quote 135 Hemi Superbirds being made. No one can verify that number, including the national aero warriors association or various Chrysler engineers, even though Google and others show it. No one knows, particularly Google. The NASCAR certified list of Superbirds shows 93. That list is available-I have a copy of it, and it can occasionally be purchased on Ebay. Perhaps it is correct, perhaps 135 is correct, or perhaps somewhere in between. Just because Google says it does not make it so.
Third: You state Chrysler sold an aero-package kit over the counter. I worked in Chrysler parts during the 1970's. We never sold such a kit, there was no such kit from Chrysler. Aftermarket developers such as Janak and others have since developed fiberglass kits, and some individuals have actually made a few 3rd party steel noses available from them directly.
Fourth-Yes Jeff Dunham owns a Hemi Superbird. So do I.
Fifth: Restore to original. Your opinion is of course your opinion but I choose to leave it as a time capsule of history of 1 of somewhere around 100+- Hemi Superbirds made, but still wearing the nostalgic paint job from that era.
No way... How many restored Superbirds are out there? A bunch (relatively) How many unrestored survivors? Very few.
How many still sporting all of their period modifications? Even less.
Park this alongside 10 restored originals that all look alike...
This one is the most interesting.
Saw this car in person and it is awesome.
@@indianadave8881 Current condition, it's not worth near as much as one restored to original condition..
Who cares what it's worth. It's cool as it is right now and to any real enthusiast that's what matters
Sergeant Masson You don’t know jack about mopars! Go polish your blue oval. Lol
Please paint that back to B5 blue.
Paint job is hideous