Another Superbird fender tag on Ebay

[Alaskan_TA]

Anyone know where the car is or if it still exists? Tag is hard to read;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Data-Plate-70-Plymouth-Superbird_W0QQitemZ130230923400QQihZ003QQcategoryZ50452QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[nascarxx29]

I will see what I can find .I have a envelope superbird  remains .From a parted out superbird we used back in the day to build a FM3 ragtop superbird.Wonder what this tag a supebird story is

[nascarxx29]

It appears to end in 62.with a 17?662 175662.which shows in 79 to a lou Whitfeld Bakerfield CA.The other codes I can make out 116  052   670 codes for motor trans brakes and rear ratio .Found on Lynch road cars I believe 26 radiator C16 console P6XA black buckets B30 all superbird Nov 30
If it is lou w car tag .I do recall this car which was orange and had 440 call outs on it

[Aero426]

Lou's car was in very nice condition, so I doubt that tag is from his car.   I don't know where his old car currently is, but given the rust on the tag, it doesn't seem probable.

There is U0A176662, which surfaced for the first time in 2003 for sale, in good condition, with the same color and interior combo.   Curiously, the fender tag mounted on that car has a J99xxx special order number, which made no sense.   Only 999 Corporate Blue cars have had J99xxx numbers.    It is possible that 176662 has a reproduction fender tag with the wrong J number.   This is pure speculation on my part. 

[nascarxx29]

I will look at my superbird list and see if I see another 62 ending vin

[nascarxx29]

 

Title: Data Plate 70 Plymouth Superbird         
 
Condition: Used         
 






Description
I retired and relocated recently.  In moving I found a box of data plates and VIN tags from MOPARs I have owned, sold or scrapped over the years.  Since 1970 I've gone through over 150 of the cars. Remember there was a day when these cars were worth virtually nothing.  Many were stripped and scrapped.  Each time I scrapped or sold a builder car I kept the emblems and data plates to have a souvenier of the car.  I loved the cars and never expected them to be worth much more than they were then.  I'm guessing if the cars are still around the owner would like to have the original data plate and if it is one of the cars sent to salvage these make really neat collectors pieces.

This is a great tag it's for a hemit orange 70 Superbird I bought in Chattanooga, TN.  This car sat for years with lawn mowers parked under the nose cone.  I'm embarassed to tell you what I paid for this one!  What a deal. It was a 440 4 BBL with a T/F, buckets and console.  Tag is in fair conditionand.  It is difficult to make out the 3rd number of the sequence number.  VIN is RM23U0A17_662.

[nascarxx29]

I tend to agree with Doug possibly being 176662.

[nascarxx29]

The last 3 digits in the J 97 number or J 98.appears to end in 811
                                                                116                052               670
                                                                V19                26        C16
                                                                                                 V88               
                                                                 EV2              P6XA      TX9   B30   J9*811
                                                                 E86              D32        RM23  UOA 17*662

[nascarxx29]

I had a tag in worse shape then this .And had to flip it over and use chalk dust or chalk in the embossed numbers before it crumbled away worse and used a mirror to reverse and retrieve all info.I was able to show the actual weak tag to get a remake.From AG Backeast CT.who is probably not around anymore

[pettybird]

  Only 999 Corporate Blue cars have had J99xxx numbers.   

can you explain that better?  i happen to have my bcast sheet RIGHT HERE, and yes, it's J99525...  do you know any more?  i thought those were nearly completely random, and that the 999 cars were built in batches?

[Alaskan_TA]

I'll give it a try....

Any 1970 special order paint car would have a J prefix VON.

Some other special order cars like the Superbird had J prefix VONs as well.

So, if you had a special order car, with special order paint, the J prefix changed.

This left us with J97xxx & J98xxx (going up sequentially) for Superbird & J99xxx for a Superbird with special order paint.

[Alaskan_TA]

The special order 1970 Chrysler Hurst cars were J99xxx cars as well.

[nascarxx29]

And the Hurst 300 hood and trunklids were done by Creative Industries.As the the wingcars and lift offhood cars

[62 Max]

# 178662 is also a bird.

[nascarxx29]

Thats 1 of the few combos with that ending vin I ran across.171662 nothing showing 175662 Vit C lou W Ca car 176662 nothing showing vit C 178662 Ca car .This fender tag shows EV2

[nascarxx29]

Im not sure if they built in sequence numbered batches Joe M PA car 166*** Barry K PA is 158*** used to be Steve B car Buffalo NY.And seen others besides these.And the vins varied.C37D OR 999 Is what I look for
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,38347.0.html

[Aero426]

It is definitely not 171662.  You can see that digit is clearly not a 1, and does not appear to me to have anything to represent the top of an 8.     I would still vote that it is 176662.

[moparstuart]

  I was the winner of the auction , if anyone knows of the real owner of the car ,it's their's other wise it's my suveniour!

[Aero426]

When you get the tag,  flip it over and see if you can read it. 

[moparstuart]

  I will

[Chris G.]

  I was the winner of the auction , if anyone knows of the real owner of the car ,it's their's other wise it's my suveniour!

Nice!  Let's hope the car shows up. You got off easy only dropping $100.

ps- Anyone remember when member PistolPete won a bunch of tags? He said he would try and reunite the $600 worth of fender tags he bought with the current owners of the cars (for a fee), but did that ever happen? Still wondering where those tags sit today. 
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,20616.30.html

[nascarxx29]

Who remembers a guy I think Alex was his name claiming to have all kinds of buildsheets just call in you vin to confirm 

[70gtx440dana]

Hey XX29!!! I see you own U0A166242 Superbird. I have the original 4 speed trans from U0A166241. Just wondering if you know
anything about this car. Would like to reunite the trans if it is still out there somewhere.   Joe   jsawyer@cablespeed.com

[BigBlockSam]

I was the winner of the auction   

how about this auction

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=260255188102

did you hang this pink fob from the mirror of your wing car , big guy. 

[moparstuart]

 Thanks for calling me out of the closet there rene !   But really thats the hazards of letting my wife use my ebay account ! I rarely used it anymore so she has taken it over with her cross stitch stuff.   


  I did get an email from him and i should have the fender tag this week sometime .  Lets hope ?  he didnt have a paypal account so we had to do it snail mail .