Here's my Superbird story... RM23U0A161593

[pettybird]

A neat story, and it would be great to put it together with the car's current owner.  Every piece of history makes a car more interesting. 



By the way you got FANTASTIC money for a hacked together train wreck of a rusty car in 1983!  I feel really bad for the guy who paid the $11,500 in the next ad!

[nascarxx29]

Great story vintage ads and pictures

[DC_1]

Those are great pics. I wish I would have taken pictures of the cars I bought back in the 80s for $400 and $500 and brazed patch panels on to get them on the road.

[Montreal Wing Car]

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys!
I still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to kick myself for selling it! I'll post some pics of other Quebec wing cars soon...
Hopefully, this might help in retracing it... Is there someone from the DSAC who posts here? That would be my best lead to get the VIN, as the licence bureau won't help after more than 25 years, and the car was not insured when I had it... so those trails are cold.
Ben

[Aero426]

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys!
I still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to kick myself for selling it! I'll post some pics of other Quebec wing cars soon...
Hopefully, this might help in retracing it... Is there someone from the DSAC who posts here? That would be my best lead to get the VIN, as the licence bureau won't help after more than 25 years, and the car was not insured when I had it... so those trails are cold.
Ben

Hi Ben, Doug from DSAC here.   Do you remember your membership number?  Or I can try by your last name.  The hard copies of the records are arranged by member number.  I know I have some of those pics you posted, so finding the VIN shouldn't be hard.   

[1969chargerrtse]

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys!
I still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to kick myself for selling it! I'll post some pics of other Quebec wing cars soon...
Hopefully, this might help in retracing it... Is there someone from the DSAC who posts here? That would be my best lead to get the VIN, as the licence bureau won't help after more than 25 years, and the car was not insured when I had it... so those trails are cold.
Ben

Hi Ben, Doug from DSAC here.   Do you remember your membership number?  Or I can try by your last name.  The hard copies of the records are arranged by member number.  I know I have some of those pics you posted, so finding the VIN shouldn't be hard.  

He wrote this in the beginning.

" By then, I had also joined the DSAC, I still have newsletters from 1981-1985, I was member 1007 "

P.S I love that Chrysler.  Wow. 

[Montreal Wing Car]

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys!
I still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to kick myself for selling it! I'll post some pics of other Quebec wing cars soon...
Hopefully, this might help in retracing it... Is there someone from the DSAC who posts here? That would be my best lead to get the VIN, as the licence bureau won't help after more than 25 years, and the car was not insured when I had it... so those trails are cold.
Ben

Hi Ben, Doug from DSAC here.   Do you remember your membership number?  Or I can try by your last name.  The hard copies of the records are arranged by member number.  I know I have some of those pics you posted, so finding the VIN shouldn't be hard.  

He wrote this in the beginning.

" By then, I had also joined the DSAC, I still have newsletters from 1981-1985, I was member 1007 "

P.S I love that Chrysler.  Wow. 

Thanks, here's another view:

Ben

[learical1]

I show in 79 records a FJ5 RM23UOA161559 lime green automatic Bill and Bruce Lear Phoenix AZ

Just to keep things clear:
A161559 was the 3rd SuperBird Bill and I bought.  California emission car, it had be Zee-Barted before we got it in 1975-76.  The 440 was long gone, in its place was a 383.  Fender scoops were painted black, and only the 'm' in Plymouth remained on each side (mm=mickey mouse?).  There was a trailer hitch on the car, and the guy we bought it from said he blew up the 440 pulling his boat out of the water.  Bill and I owned A161559 until January, 1983.  Oh, and I threw a Hemi in the thing, 'cause the 383 just wouldn't cut it in a 'Bird.  (yes, I put the Hemi in, Bill had already finished college and was working full time, I was still a student with lots of 'free time').

[nascarxx29]

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys!
I still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to kick myself for selling it! I'll post some pics of other Quebec wing cars soon...
Hopefully, this might help in retracing it... Is there someone from the DSAC who posts here? That would be my best lead to get the VIN, as the licence bureau won't help after more than 25 years, and the car was not insured when I had it... so those trails are cold.
Ben

Hi Ben, Doug from DSAC here.   Do you remember your membership number?  Or I can try by your last name.  The hard copies of the records are arranged by member number.  I know I have some of those pics you posted, so finding the VIN shouldn't be hard.   

By then, I had also joined the DSAC, I still have newsletters from 1981-1985, I was member 1007.

[daveco]

(Lurker dave here, sorry for chiming in out of the blue, but...)

Dang, that is one super nice looking Chrysler!

[TiMopar]

Great pictures and story, many thanks for sharing. Love the 300 also!

[Montreal Wing Car]

Isn't this the part when someone would photoshop a wing and nose on my Chrysler? 
Ben

[Montreal Wing Car]

Doug:
Any luck with the DSAC archives (member 1007....)
Thanks!
Ben

[nascarxx29]

Around what time did you join .They would later feature in the newsletter new member car a member # issued and a membership card like the one bellow
Longtime family friend Joe donated me his wingcar memorabilia when he retired and sold his car that he got in 73.I think he saw a ad in hemmings and joined and he collected anything and everything wing from yellow club banners to etc etc

[Aero426]

Doug:
Any luck with the DSAC archives (member 1007....)
Thanks!
Ben

Hi Ben,  I found your original letters (Jan 12, 1982) and photos of the green Bird last night.    There are also two black and white photos of a Hemi Daytona in there with a car info sheet on that one - but not one on the Bird.  Do you remember if your car was ever shown in the newsletter?   I have not gone back into the actual newsletters from 82-83-84.  I also looked in the computer last night for all the green Birds and did not find a match to the VIN by your member number.   

Doug

[Aero426]

Ben, here are the photos of the Daytona.   I think this was a car you were trying to buy before the Superbird became available.   Your letter talks about only the Daytona.   So there must have been another letter written about the Superbird once you bought it.

Photo #1 of the Daytona.

[Aero426]

Again, the photos of the Daytona were with the photos of your Superbird.    Your letter talks about being 18 years old and trying to save enough money to buy the Daytona.    Great to hear from you again.

[Brock Samson]

 Yikes! musta' been one hot day... I thought the girls were supposed to wear the daisy dukes!     Great stuff BTW, Thanks! PS: love the 300, talk about "Green Acres"! (I'm not sure if that's a rhetorical question or not) 
Yeah I'd like to see that photoshop too...  with a big "CHRYSLER" on the rear quarters... Big fan of '71 300s here... 

[The70RT]

Yikes! musta' been one hot day... I thought the girls were supposed to wear the daisy dukes!     

Looks like the old basketball shorts of that era. Now the shorts are down to the ankles 

[moparstuart]

Yikes! musta' been one hot day... I thought the girls were supposed to wear the daisy dukes!     

[Montreal Wing Car]

Ben, here are the photos of the Daytona.   I think this was a car you were trying to buy before the Superbird became available.   Your letter talks about only the Daytona.   So there must have been another letter written about the Superbird once you bought it.

Thanks Doug!
I have a couple more pics of that Daytona, saw it once then, never again. Note the vinyl top! The pics I took that day are all over the net now, after I posted them once...
From the sound of it, seems there was an earlier letter. I looked at most of the newsletters I have, 1981-1985, I actually saw a couple of cars from Quebec, but not mine, unfortunately.
Thanks again for your time,
Ben

[Aero426]

I will keep looking.  Don't give up yet.

[Magnumcharger]

Yikes! musta' been one hot day... I thought the girls were supposed to wear the daisy dukes!     Great stuff BTW, Thanks! PS: love the 300, talk about "Green Acres"! (I'm not sure if that's a rhetorical question or not) 
Yeah I'd like to see that photoshop too...  with a big "CHRYSLER" on the rear quarters... Big fan of '71 300s here... 

Whadddya think?

[learical1]

Yikes! musta' been one hot day... I thought the girls were supposed to wear the daisy dukes!     Great stuff BTW, Thanks! PS: love the 300, talk about "Green Acres"! (I'm not sure if that's a rhetorical question or not) 
Yeah I'd like to see that photoshop too...  with a big "CHRYSLER" on the rear quarters... Big fan of '71 300s here... 

Whadddya think?

I'd buy that for a dollar!


Actually, I do like it.

[Brock Samson]

I'm not really sure it needs more green,.. looks like the south forty in springtime... 
    That's pretty cool magnum... Must be fun to park...