1978 Retro wing car article

[nascarxx29]

I still got this magazine Special Interest Auto somewhere around here.But here it is on this link
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/05/17/sia-flashback-mopars-winged-wonders/

[C5X DAYTONA]

09 Mopar Speed Festival.  Not the same car but same idea.

[Dave Kanofsky]

Well, here's a guy not gunning for president of DSAC or WW/NBOA anytime soon...

"Mike Eldred says: May 19, 2009 at 3:34 pm

It's probably just me, but I always hated these things. The absurd wings and nosecones look like something imagined by a 13-year-old boy, manufactured by a team of itinerant panel beaters, and attatched to an otherwise perfectly good car by drunken monkeys.

Yeah, I'm sure it's just me."

Or maybe he's just jealous?



C5X - That is sweet.

[hemigeno]

09 Mopar Speed Festival.  Not the same car but same idea.

I spy some daylight under that left front tire   

[Aero426]

By the way, we STILL have some of those SIA magazines with that article left as part of the cheap-o magazine deal we offered last spring.

[NYCMille]

The winged cars are a piece of history and to date probably the most outlandish production based cars ever built in terms looks. You might love em', you might hate em', but you'll never be able to ignore them. 

[wingcar]

I can still remember all those that pointed and laughed  at my Superbird when I took it to car shows back in the late '70s and early '80s.   The very same people in many cases that are now tripping all over themselves trying to buy one today............  I wonder who had the last laugh...  because I was able to actually drive the car and enjoy it before it became a big rolling dollar sign.... 

[C5X DAYTONA]

Well, here's a guy not gunning for president of DSAC or WW/NBOA anytime soon...

"Mike Eldred says: May 19, 2009 at 3:34 pm

It's probably just me, but I always hated these things. The absurd wings and nosecones look like something imagined by a 13-year-old boy, manufactured by a team of itinerant panel beaters, and attatched to an otherwise perfectly good car by drunken monkeys.

Yeah, I'm sure it's just me."

Or maybe he's just jealous?



C5X - That is sweet.

Thanks.  That car is such a blast.   I always wonder what guys like Mike Eldred drives.  lol    He was probably the 14 year old boy who wanted to be a girl scout.. 

[Dave Kanofsky]

Thanks.  That car is such a blast.   I always wonder what guys like Mike Eldred drives.  lol    He was probably the 14 year old boy who wanted to be a girl scout.. 

HA HA!   

Yea, he dreams of a Civic with a wing as big as ours!