Superbird in Junkyard............

[wingcar builder]

This sad photo was posted on facebook. Does anybody know of this car? I remember hearing stories back in the day that a local yard here in Pa. (still in business) had one but nobody really could confirm it.  I'm sure it was the old story of a Super Bee that became a SuperBird over time.....you know how memories are.

[Baldwinvette77]

I've always wanted to know, if junkyard owners who crushed these cars in the past, were kicking themselves over how much even a wreck was worth later 

[hemi-hampton]

I remember watching a tv show in the 80's, a cop show & the detective went to a Junkyard. In the background I could cleary see a SuperBird or Daytona with pointed nose & big wing sticking up, it was sitting on top of another car like your pic but was in Los Angeles area I assume. LEON.

[CRW-FK5]

Looks like maybe a T/A Challenger to the left of it, also.

[tan top]

 I came across that picture a while back  ,  see below , ( pictures slightly different )  was mentioned , it was in a Spanish American junk yard  , wing was sold  




http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,95432.100.html

[PettyMower]

A few miles South from where I grew up was a junkyard next to a main highway. (Rt.13 Fruitland, MD) Around the late 70's they had a Yellow Superbird, and it was back to the road. So when you drove past you could see the wing sticking up above the fence. I wasn't old enough to drive yet, so never went in to check it out. I heard it was smashed in the front.  (The Superbird is long gone!!!)

The yard has changed hands a few times and is currently listed as Copart Salvage Auto Auctions.

[PettyMower]

And.....I just thought of something else. The Crown Sports Complex (can be seen across the street from the salvage yard) has some connection to this Superbird.

[nascarxx29]

That bird was in bedford museum was eddie evans  car

[nascarxx29]

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Archive/Event/Item/1970-PLYMOUTH-SUPERBIRD-2-DOOR-HARDTOP-89102

[PettyMower]

Someone in this area purchased the car at the Florida Barrett-Jackson auction a few years back when the economy was at it's recent worst. If I remember correctly, it's a real V-code, 4-speed car, and was picked up for approximately $80,000.

[PettyMower]

Yup....V-code, 4-speed. By the time it made it to Maryland, I think there was an additional cost of $10,000.  So, he had somewhere around $76,000 invested.

WOW.....it's been 6-years already. Seemed like only a couple.

I've not seen the 'Bird since.

[tan top]

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Archive/Event/Item/1970-PLYMOUTH-SUPERBIRD-2-DOOR-HARDTOP-89102

[tan top]

 

[nascarxx29]

I know of yellow bird in  maryland guys had it for years in garage apart

[PettyMower]

I don't believe the junkyard 'Bird survived. But.....was it smashed in the front?

[nascarxx29]

I Think he looking for front parts on old moparts post.he knew my friend with orange daytona who bought daytona in 78.theres also a white hemi bird in maryland phil handey

[PettyMower]

David......PM sent

[nascarxx29]

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1487672/re-my-superbird-is-back-from-the-body-shop.html#Post1487672

[nascarxx29]

Greg had yellow bird color was off like a school bus yellow lived in maryland and car is or getting done

[wingcar builder]

also posted on facebook , what is the story on this creation?  says it is in New Zealand.

[nascarxx29]

Think. brooklands museum clone daytona

[boss429kiwi]

It's in the Highlands race track museum, Cromwell, New Zealand

[RCCDrew]

A guy I knew in the 90s told me he junked a Daytona body in the 80s to get the engine out of it. He hated the car; told me they were horrendous. I'm probably the only person left that remembers the story of that car.