1969 Roadrunner.
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Petty adopted the car. The 1970 Superbird did well against strong Ford opposition on the NASCAR tracks that year, winning eight races and placing well in many more.
They did so well that year with the Hemi Superbirds/Daytonas that NASCAR ended up having to put restrictions on them the following year..ie run a restrictor plate or a smallblock!
Last edited by hwcoop; Nov 2, 2006 at 08:54 AM.
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Originally Posted by hwcoop
They did so well that year with the Hemi Superbirds/Daytonas that NASCAR ended up having to put restrictions on them the following year..ie run a restrictor plate or a smallblock!
I watched Petty race that bird at Riverside International Raceway that year...2.6 mile road course...sure miss those days...
Plymouth had projected to sell 2000 Roadrunners in 1968...they sold 80,000 if I have the numbers right..
Here is a Superbird...local car
Rich
Last edited by rihwoods; Nov 2, 2006 at 09:18 AM.
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Originally Posted by rihwoods
You are right...engine restrictions..smaller displacement..
I watched Petty race that bird at Riverside International Raceway that year...2.6 mile road course...sure miss those days...
Plymouth had projected to sell 2000 Roadrunners in 1968...they sold 80,000 if I have the numbers right..
Here is a Superbird...local car
Rich
I watched Petty race that bird at Riverside International Raceway that year...2.6 mile road course...sure miss those days...
Plymouth had projected to sell 2000 Roadrunners in 1968...they sold 80,000 if I have the numbers right..
Here is a Superbird...local car
Rich
I like the Charger because you get all the clean muscular lines of the bird without the nose cone or spoiler. I still don't like those items.
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Originally Posted by Durango_boy
Was? I'm guessing you no longer have it? Bummer man...she's a beut.
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Durango Boy...I have pasted my post from a few weeks ago on a similar subject. I turned 16 in 1970 and my dad was a "gearhead". It WAS a blast. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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You are so correct in all your thoughts above. It was truely a different world that was changing rapidly. Probably more social/economic changes from 1970 - 2000 than in the last 200 years. I missed the draft by 6 months in 72 and have wondered "what if" many times. I remember well....I turned 16 in 1970....Mom drove a 68 Chevelle....Dad drove a "company car" and played with his 60 Corvette / 283 with two 4's....I remember being with my Dad at John Smith Chevrolet ...downtown Atlanta... in 1970. He wanted a new 454 Chevelle sooo bad. He walked out of the dealer over 25 bucks on a deal. As we drove off, he was grumbling that, "That damn car was over 5 thousand dollars...those people are crazy"...poor guy never got his big block Chevelle. My 1st car was a 70(?) Vega GT which got rear ended so hard that it drove sideways after it was repaired, then I bought a brand new 73 Nova for $ 2700.00 with tips from bagging groceries at the Winn Dixie. My future wife and I would swap cars with a buddy on Friday nights, because he wanted an automatic and a bench seat... .....which meant she and I would cruise N. Atlanta in his 67 Belvedere HEMI Sport Coupe...buckets, no console and a 4 speed. That was a blast on Peachtree Street in 1975. He eventually sold that car for $1500. We would drive it to Peaches Records and Tapes (Lotta hippies there on friday night)... ....buy a new "record or 8 TRACK" then go to The Varsity or Mellow Mushroom Pizza on Roswell Rd all while drinking Boones Farm Strawberry Wine straight out of the bottle. We married in 1977...our 1st cars as a couple were a 77 Trans Am .... 69 Vette convertible and a 340 Duster. We went through a real 71 SS454 Monte...70 Vette LT1 Coupe and a real 73 SD455 TA. It was standard to see amazing burnouts at the stoplights and the police didn't even stop you as long as you didn't "almost" hit anything. Crazy, but I think that silly 340 Duster was as fast as anything made.
Our friends drove Roadrunners.....Cyclone Spoiler SCJ's ....442's... Torino CobraJets...GS 455's.....GTX...Superbirds. ..GTO's...Mach I's...Chevelles....and Boss 302 Stangs. C2's were considered old JUNK. We would always laugh at guys in AMX's. Sure wish I had one now. We were sure that Honda cars were just a fad. ... About 1980 we all FREAKED out when gas hit .75 cents and started driving Celicas, Escorts, Hondas and Chevy Citations -
THOSE WERE THE DAYS !
Your post above brought back a lot of good memories....
Now that our kids are grown - college graduated and moved out...we've started with the hot rods again. We had no idea those old cars would become so valuable.
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You are so correct in all your thoughts above. It was truely a different world that was changing rapidly. Probably more social/economic changes from 1970 - 2000 than in the last 200 years. I missed the draft by 6 months in 72 and have wondered "what if" many times. I remember well....I turned 16 in 1970....Mom drove a 68 Chevelle....Dad drove a "company car" and played with his 60 Corvette / 283 with two 4's....I remember being with my Dad at John Smith Chevrolet ...downtown Atlanta... in 1970. He wanted a new 454 Chevelle sooo bad. He walked out of the dealer over 25 bucks on a deal. As we drove off, he was grumbling that, "That damn car was over 5 thousand dollars...those people are crazy"...poor guy never got his big block Chevelle. My 1st car was a 70(?) Vega GT which got rear ended so hard that it drove sideways after it was repaired, then I bought a brand new 73 Nova for $ 2700.00 with tips from bagging groceries at the Winn Dixie. My future wife and I would swap cars with a buddy on Friday nights, because he wanted an automatic and a bench seat... .....which meant she and I would cruise N. Atlanta in his 67 Belvedere HEMI Sport Coupe...buckets, no console and a 4 speed. That was a blast on Peachtree Street in 1975. He eventually sold that car for $1500. We would drive it to Peaches Records and Tapes (Lotta hippies there on friday night)... ....buy a new "record or 8 TRACK" then go to The Varsity or Mellow Mushroom Pizza on Roswell Rd all while drinking Boones Farm Strawberry Wine straight out of the bottle. We married in 1977...our 1st cars as a couple were a 77 Trans Am .... 69 Vette convertible and a 340 Duster. We went through a real 71 SS454 Monte...70 Vette LT1 Coupe and a real 73 SD455 TA. It was standard to see amazing burnouts at the stoplights and the police didn't even stop you as long as you didn't "almost" hit anything. Crazy, but I think that silly 340 Duster was as fast as anything made.
Our friends drove Roadrunners.....Cyclone Spoiler SCJ's ....442's... Torino CobraJets...GS 455's.....GTX...Superbirds. ..GTO's...Mach I's...Chevelles....and Boss 302 Stangs. C2's were considered old JUNK. We would always laugh at guys in AMX's. Sure wish I had one now. We were sure that Honda cars were just a fad. ... About 1980 we all FREAKED out when gas hit .75 cents and started driving Celicas, Escorts, Hondas and Chevy Citations -
THOSE WERE THE DAYS !
Your post above brought back a lot of good memories....
Now that our kids are grown - college graduated and moved out...we've started with the hot rods again. We had no idea those old cars would become so valuable.
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Last edited by fotyfobravo : 10-08-2006 at 11:22 AM.
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From: Lake Arrowhead - Georgia > 72 Base Coupe & 74 BB Roadster
Originally Posted by ahoover
yeah but then you would be an old fart now! 
You could restore one of those old Mopars into a much better quality car today, than when it rolled off the assembly line.My father in law worked at Dodge Main where the winged cars were built. His favorite story is at the end of the '70 model year there were a couple hundred (could be an exageration) Daytona's and Superbird's sitting in the yard that dealers did not want and employees could buy them for $2000 each. No, he didn't buy one.
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Originally Posted by fotyfobravo
Hoover...You are correct....Kelley Chrysler Plymouth in Marietta, Ga had about 6 Superbirds left over. They couldn't give them away. They ended up selling them at like 1000 bucks off invoice to "kids" that couldn't afford the insurance.
Oh I wish...I were one of them...yikes.
