New photos - Hamilton Bird really the original Petty Bird !!

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[Mytur Binsdirti]

A small dent in a frame tube sounds very petty to me.   

[odcics2]

Link to where there is more discussion about this subject:

http://www.randyayersmodeling.com/modelingforum/viewtopic.php?t=61643&start=150&sid=91cd72c60fcde6a0014d63088d7f3608

[pettybird]

A small dent in a frame tube sounds very petty to me.   

#rimshot

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Link to where there is more discussion about this subject:

http://www.randyayersmodeling.com/modelingforum/viewtopic.php?t=61643&start=150&sid=91cd72c60fcde6a0014d63088d7f3608

thanks for posting  the link     , keep forgetting about that site !!  








 , heres  more of the superbirds in the hard chargers  

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   pitty you cant see more of the front tube frame & welds under the hood 

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richard pettys 43 at the fair ground

[odcics2]

Nice screen captures!   

[Aero426]

If you do a screen capture of the Road Runner at the fair with the hood up, you will see that the under hood bars are similar to the trophy room Superbird. 

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If you do a screen capture of the Road Runner at the fair with the hood up, you will see that the under hood bars are similar to the trophy room Superbird.  

 

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[Aero426]

This one is the relevant picture.   The style of front hoop is "Made in Level Cross".    Neither of the raced Superbirds had this.   But this car was built completely in-house at Pettys.   I believe this to be the trophy room car.    This feature was later copied over onto the Hawthorne #43 Superbird.  Both those were used as reference for the restored #40.  

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This one is the relevant picture.   The style of front hoop is "Made in Level Cross".    Neither of the raced Superbirds had this.   But this car was built completely in-house at Pettys.   I believe this to be the trophy room car.    This feature was later copied over onto the Hawthorne #43 Superbird.  Both those were used as reference for the restored #40.  

thats intresting  , wonder why they used that style hoop     i've not seen enough pictures on any of them really  ,going abit side tracked now ,  there is another difference i've seen i think , that appears on the 43 superbird in a picture on the modeling site fourm where its up on four jack stands , but like i say , i've not see no where enough to tell really  , may be it was  just changed during one of the repairs after a wreck ,  got another DVD where  richard   stalls it in the pits & it wont fire & the hood goes up , will dig it out & have a look  , think you see quite a bit  

[moparstuart]

This one is the relevant picture.   The style of front hoop is "Made in Level Cross".    Neither of the raced Superbirds had this.   But this car was built completely in-house at Pettys.   I believe this to be the trophy room car.    This feature was later copied over onto the Hawthorne #43 Superbird.  Both those were used as reference for the restored #40.  

is the trophy room car the current petty museum car ,  or is that still another car  ??

[Aero426]

is the trophy room car the current petty museum car ,  or is that still another car  ??

Yes the Superbird that used to be in the trophy room at the race shop is the same one that is now at the museum.    That is the car I believe is built from the short track RR above. 

[Aero426]

Short track Road Runner on the jig during early stages of build.   This is likely the above car built to replace the crashed RR from Darlington.    Photo from the Meet Richard Petty record album.   Not much "stock" left is there, eh? 

[Aero426]

The old short track car performing show car duty outside the track at Rockingham in 1973.    At this point it is too old to race with that body. 

[Aero426]

The trophy room Superbird has this box built into the trunk area behind the fuel cell.   This would be common on a short track car to put bags of lead or bars in there for weight distribution.   You would not likely see this on a dedicated speedway car.

[odcics2]

Nice pic of the Petty short track car - now Superbird. 

Here is a pic of the Fake 88 Daytona trunk.   HA!  Notice the painting technique
match??     It appears that the red #71 mule car sat around Chelsea, was shipped to Petty
for painting and then on to Daytona for the presentation to Nascar in Feb. of 1973.

[Someday70]

It looks like the Petty team missed the setup at that Rockingham race

[odcics2]

It looks like the Petty team missed the setup at that Rockingham race

Odd, since Petty usually ran well there through the years.   

[Aero426]

Richard won the spring race at Rockingham despite spinning out twice.   492 laps on a one mile track is a LONG race, almost five hours.   

[odcics2]

Any updates to this?  

Heard that the Pettys finally agreed it IS Richard's car and not the Hamilton machine.