"STAR DAYTONA" custom-painted Daytona (pictures)

[hemigeno]

Here are a few pictures from back when custom paint jobs weren't frowned on like they are nowadays.  Larry B. had asked about this "STAR DAYTONA" on the DSAC forum, and I recently got these pictures of it when it wore that paint job.  The car would have been painted up like this in the mid/late '70s, but by the early 80s it had been sprayed back F6.  Some of you guys from the Indianapolis area might recall having seen it.

So, do ya think the current owner should paint it back this way??   

[Charger1973]

So, do ya think the current owner should paint it back this way??   

Definately!  Its classic, has a true 70s feel to it.  Reminds me of a hot wheels car.   

[Magnumcharger]

An interesting car, for sure!
But those pictures...ewwwwww!!!
I tried to rectify them, but some dogs should just remain lying down.

[daytonalo]

One word , ACID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WINGR]

Does anyone else think that it could have been Evel Knieval's car. If so it's it a good thing he didn't try and jump anything with it.

 

[Aero426]

I'm surprised nobody recognized it as a copy of the Tycopro Superbird paint job.    Didn't any of you guys play with slot cars?  

[nascarxx29]

It sure does remind me of a tyco superbird .Wonder if anyone did a large scale replica of the # 7 Aurora daytona

[Charger1973]

No wonder it reminded me of a hot wheels car.   

[hemigeno]

I'm surprised nobody recognized it as a copy of the Tycopro Superbird paint job.    Didn't any of you guys play with slot cars?  

Boy, you nailed that one, Doug!  I had slot car sets, but none with a Superbird unfortunately.  I was stuck with the '73 Camaro set...   

That has got to be what they were trying to mimic.

[nascarxx29]

 Also that Milwaukee superbird that burned up.Had a similar paint scheme.And this retro pictured brand X car from my town which sported a real superbird wing 
       

[daytonalo]

YEE HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[69bronzeT5]

I never had any slot car sets. There is one in town and it comes with a 69 GTO and a 69 Camaro. If I get that then Ill get a Charger slot car off of Ebay. I almost bought a slot car set that came with a yellow 70 'Bird and a blue 73 Charger.

[PocketThunder]

I'm starting to think that the '70s paint jobs are becoming rarely seen nowadays and to have one still intact will be like having that hemi cuda in the back of your barn.  Not too many out there anymore.  I guess if i found this car or one like it i'd keep it in its '70s hay* day form..




*or hey day i dont know which is correct..

[nascarxx29]

Wingcars from the 70 usually were customized.There was the Romeo radio station superbird for starters and I recall many more.And a friends white daytona before it debuted in the supercars book.Was also sporting a custom paint job .Burgundy silver.

[nascarxx29]

Thanks Larry and Hemi Geno for sharing more retro pictures.And I found this on Larry B when he was trading of his well known green daytona for a 78 vette

[nascarxx29]

Black and white pictutre Disc jockey Romeo radio station superbird

[nakita7]

Paint jobs like that are frowned upon?....

[nascarxx29]

Its only paint .I know of one hemi daytona.That the guy had installed sun roof on it

[Ghoste]

Was Larry copying the slot car paint scheme or did they copy him?

[69_500]

I would say that he copied the slot car, I think that the slot car was out in the early 70's. Guess I can't be for sure, as I didn't make it into this world until the late 70's.

[nascarxx29]

That star daytona paint job was pretty radical.Heres 2 more retro daytonas not as modified

[Magnumcharger]

pics fix'd

[69_500]

You forgot to mention the modfied Superbird in the second photo as well. its without a vinyl top.

[C_stripes]

I'm surprised nobody recognized it as a copy of the Tycopro Superbird paint job.    Didn't any of you guys play with slot cars?  

Boy, you nailed that one, Doug!  I had slot car sets, but none with a Superbird unfortunately.  I was stuck with the '73 Camaro set...   

That has got to be what they were trying to mimic.

I have that slot car.  Its kinda cool.   Anyone here collect the old HO slots?

[pettybird]

Yep!!!






I have at least 15 other wing car slots that aren't pictured, too, and a total of around 90 cars.  I have a hundreds of feet of Tyco track, including eight complete CIRCLES of banking.  I have one NOS yellow AFX daytona, two NOS red/white/blue 'birds in bubbles and more.  They're far and away my favorite toys...I'd get rid of just about everything else and keep these.  It helps that they're small, too 



Also, that R6 car above with the huge chin spoiler was just restored to look just like that, again.  The spoiler's gone, but the R6 paint with the hand lettered "DAYTONA" is there, along with the slot mags...The car's from PA and the guy (who, of course, I can't remember his name) and his wife are great to talk to.  The car's been in his family for more than 20 years.

Man, if I won the lottery, the first ad I'd place would be for wing cars with vintage paint jobs...

[pettybird]

I would say that he copied the slot car, I think that the slot car was out in the early 70's. Guess I can't be for sure, as I didn't make it into this world until the late 70's.

It was new for '74.


And now for information no one asked for, but I felt compelled to type anyway--wing car slot car history!

The first Tyco Superbird released is EXTREMELY hard to find--it was sky blue with a flat black hood and 43's on the doors.  Back then, Tyco cars came warrantied--if yours broke, you sent it to headquarters (in Brooklyn, NY, no less) and one of the cars you MIGHT get back was the new Superbird casting.  It was never sold in stores.  The next couple years, the car was available in burnt orange metallic or an orange pretty close to Vitamin "C."  The red/white/blue scheme, first released as a Tycopro brass chassis car, and later as a Curve Hugger with Tyco's first traction system (metal tabs transferred magnetic energy from the motor magnets to the rail area,) the car was available in chrome with red and black stickers, with "429 CI" on the hood, and a curve hugger 2 chassis (a minor improvement over the curve hugger, most notable for having realistic-width front tires on an axle rather than skinnies on plastic stubs.)  After this car, subsequent releases saw the casting changed to eliminate the deep front spoiler and trim up the rear bumper--Superbirds wouldn't go upside down.  Due to their length, the cars would get to the top of the loop, the bumper and spoiler would lift the car off of the rails, and it would drop like a stone.  The only way around that was to go full speed, and have inertia reset the car back onto the track past the loop.  The trimmed cars don't have that problem.  In the late 80's, the car was released in Lemon Twist with chrome wheels, black top, nose blackouts and "Plymouth" decals, on an HP7 chassis, which replaced the curve hugger 2 at the lower end of Tyco's chassis lineup.  The car was released soon after in a two-pack Petty setup with the 'bird and the then-current FWD Grand Prix, both HP7 chassis and blue wheels.  The late '90's saw a semitranslucent orange car, with wing decals and the much better 440X2 chassis and chrome wheels.  The last casting was in pale yellow, no black top and much larger wheels (think 18" scale wheels) in a race set with a purple '73-4 Rallye Charger, on 440X2 chassis. 


Life-Like also released truly awful looking Superbirds, in a horrible Barney purple here, and an aqua color in Europe and Canada.  Aurora released Magna-Traction Daytonas in yellow, blue and orange, with the yellow and blue cars also available with Flamethrower (lighted) chassis.  The orange one was not, because it was the first color released and Flamethrower chassis weren't made yet.  The rarest of all in this body is a red model sold by a company that bought the molds from Aurora and sold the car exclusively in Mexico.  It was striped and didn't have the #7 scheme.  Auto World has recently released Daytonas on old-school Magna-Traction type chassis, and they are different bodies, not direct copies of Aurora's.  Polar Lights/Jonny Lightening released Daytona bodies on pullback chassis which would fit the '60's Aurora T-Jet chassis, and Carrera has a large like of totally awesome 1:43 scale 'birds, 500's and Daytonas.

Here are the Tyco cars in chronological order, OBVIOUSLY missing the sky blue car, missing the Burnt Orange car, and needing a Vitamin "C" upgrade...

[nascarxx29]

Nice collection of slot cars .I had alot of those superbirds and daytona.I  remember some of the blue #7 daytonas had working headlights..

[moparstuart]

i have a bunch also  and 71 charger and roadrunner body's to

[BigBlockSam]

Anyone here collect the old HO slots?   

i collect slot cars too, i'll post some pics later. Rene

[pettybird]

I couldn't figure out how to make the headlights show up, then went "oh."

[nascarxx29]

I had scale size matchbox car carriers holding my slot wingcars.Like the acrchive daytona pictures on car carriers.And then tried it on a larger scale

[nascarxx29]

and digging into another stuffed closet .I found the 4x4 stomper superbird and the muscle machine daytona forgot I had.and some purple superbird slot car

[moparstuart]

 I know some people around here make fun of toy's  but there is a guy here local who bought a hot wheels collection.
  He sold one car out of the collection for enought money to buy a brand new viper. It was the proto type 68 vw micro bus ( only pink one ever made )  with surf boards and all. Now he is the president of the local viper club . He buys a new viper every other year of so .  So it aint all just fun and games.

   

[The70RT]

I know some people around here make fun of toy's  but there is a guy here local who bought a hot wheels collection.
  He sold one car out of the collection for enought money to buy a brand new viper. It was the proto type 68 vw micro bus ( only pink one ever made )  with surf boards and all. Now he is the president of the local viper club . He buys a new viper every other year of so .  So it aint all just fun and games.

   

Yeah I remember the article....like 68,000? I guess someone that day put the bus in a different line and it got the odd ball one of one paint job.

[moparstuart]

I know some people around here make fun of toy's  but there is a guy here local who bought a hot wheels collection.
  He sold one car out of the collection for enought money to buy a brand new viper. It was the proto type 68 vw micro bus ( only pink one ever made )  with surf boards and all. Now he is the president of the local viper club . He buys a new viper every other year of so .  So it aint all just fun and games.

   

Yeah I remember the article....like 68,000? I guess someone that day put the bus in a different line and it got the odd ball one of one paint job.

no story goes it was a proto type and never got made in that color   then some guy that worked for hot wheels ended up with it in his home collection ( wonder how ) ha ha

[gtx6970]

WOW, thats an old pic

Dan Gaddis's Limelight daytona - still owns owns it today only painted in vintage Nascar colors
The Petty Blue bird belongs to Jim Walton - still owns it today - Original orange  V code  - now Hemi 4 spd with 2.94 gears
Both local to me, I've been in the bird at speeds many times ,  many years ago at speeds WELL over 150. The bird will do the 55 mph legal speed limit in first gear

[moparstuart]

WOW, thats an old pic

Dan Gaddis's Limelight daytona - still owns owns it today only painted in vintage Nascar colors
The Petty Blue bird belongs to Jim Walton - still owns it today - Original orange  V code  - now Hemi 4 spd with 2.94 gears
Both local to me, I've been in the bird at speeds many times ,  many years ago at speeds WELL over 150. The bird will do the 55 mph legal speed limit in first gear

yes dan's is now the 71 K&k insurance car   nice car  dan and barb are great people