B5 Superbird formerly owned by Petty Enterprises

[nascarxx29]

http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2011/01/01/hmn_feature2.html

[Budnicks]

Cool subject & write up thanks for sharing...    Man, who of us wouldn't love to own that beautiful car, from the Petty shop  ....

[hemi68charger]

Oh, we hang out all the time...  

Seriously, that's my friend down here in the Houston area......

[nascarxx29]

Cool. Somewhere out there theres another Petty enterprised owned superbird

[lngp]

Cool. Somewhere out there theres another Petty enterprised owned superbird

Richard G. from Charlotte NC bought the blue superbird from Petty ent . I remember they gave him the wrong title from another superbird. A Petty ent. truck came to his house and brought him the right title.

Richard mite have some more info on the tor-red superbird.

I heard it was totaled in High Point NC from another person.

[nascarxx29]

 Garland had daytona hemis etc.The B5 Superbird Bruce Kepley RG friend showing same car?


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,63327.0.html

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

This is supposedly the Petty Bird before it was rescued in the 80's....



Ryan

[Ghoste]

Looking well used there, how long did it sit before the rescue?

[lngp]

Garland had daytona hemis etc.The B5 Superbird Bruce Kepley RG friend showing same car?


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,63327.0.html

Right people but NOT the same car. The car that they took the wing and wing washers off of was in Virgina . I saw the parts but not the car .

The Petty bird was a different car . If you go to the Hemmings link and look at the photos you car see a pic of the Petty car, a tor-red bird, 67 r/t.and i think that is one of my 440-6 cars in the back . That photo was taken in Richards driveway.

I am sure they are two different cars.

[bannedbird]

... time passes... Last post was, what, 2012?  I was searching the threads for Petty Enterprises shop photos, and this came up (for some reason).  It coincidentally relates to my search for the 1970 Lowe's giveaway car (Superbird):
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,126639.0.html
Petty is pictured next to a B5 bird in 1970, so this could have been the car in the 1970 Lowe's annual report, but the time line does not appear to make it the give away car. 
If anyone has info on the Petty Enterprises cars (or Lowe's), please post or let me know. I will continue to search this forum's threads.

I was amazed that the link to the 2011 Hemming's story worked.  I will post a few of the photos for preservation if the links disappear. Thx.

[bannedbird]

The "before" restoration images from the link on first message:
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/mus/2011/01/Production-Proboscis-Plymouth-with-Provenance---1970-Plymouth-Superbird/3694781.html
I enlarged one image to show the background cars mentioned in one of the earlier replies.

[hemi68charger]

Well heck !!! I didn't know that was Al's....... Maybe I did, but there's been a few beers between then and now............ 

[Redbird]

Is #297 supposed to be a former Petty car, was once Tor-Red now Blue?

[bannedbird]

For the record (in case the article goes away from the web) this is what the owner Al Pokrzywa and article said in 2011 about his car. Not clear if the B5 color or options are factory. Without the VIN, I am calling it the Pokrzywa bird. 

B5 Blue (currently in 2011)
440 (4-bbl from photos)
727 automatic
8-3/4 rear
P6XW vinyl bucket seats
C16 console
G11 tinted glass
G31 right-hand outside mirror
G33 remote driver's mirror
J55 undercoating
N42 exhaust tips
R11 Solid-State AM radio
W21 Rallye wheels
Power Disc

Car was delivered to Marion Burnside Chrysler-Plymouth in Columbia, South Carolina.
From conversations with previous owners and the paperwork Al has, an employee at Petty Enterprises bought this car new.
Not long after, title changed from the original owner to Petty Enterprises.
In the '70s it made its way into private hands.
A previous owner found it without driver's door and front fender, sent it to the body shop, got all new stuff and then sold it.
Al bought it in the late '90s after all the bodywork was done and assembled the car himself from the boxed up parts.
Galen has certified it and it has been awarded a AACA Grand National first place. Estimated 140,000 miles on it.
Article published in Hemmings Muscle Machines in January 2011.

I have never seen this car or know details outside of the Hemmings article and this thread.  A few people on this thread are familiar with the Pokrzywa bird and may be able to add to car details and history. Thanks.

[lngp]

The "before" restoration images from the link on first message:
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/mus/2011/01/Production-Proboscis-Plymouth-with-Provenance---1970-Plymouth-Superbird/3694781.html
I enlarged one image to show the background cars mentioned in one of the earlier replies.

Thanks for blowing the picture up. I had a sublime 70 charger 440-6 and a lime 70 super bee 440-6 both had factory rear spoilers. I think that is the super bee in the photo.

[lngp]

Is #297 supposed to be a former Petty car, was once Tor-Red now Blue?

The 297# car is not the car in the photos.  I was told the  297# car was totaled in High Point NC. I have never seen the #297 car and can not confirm the totaled story.

[lngp]

For the record (in case the article goes away from the web) this is what the owner Al Pokrzywa and article said in 2011 about his car. Not clear if the B5 color or options are factory. Without the VIN, I am calling it the Pokrzywa bird. 

B5 Blue (currently in 2011)
440 (4-bbl from photos)
727 automatic
8-3/4 rear
P6XW vinyl bucket seats
C16 console
G11 tinted glass
G31 right-hand outside mirror
G33 remote driver's mirror
J55 undercoating
N42 exhaust tips
R11 Solid-State AM radio
W21 Rallye wheels
Power Disc

Car was delivered to Marion Burnside Chrysler-Plymouth in Columbia, South Carolina.
From conversations with previous owners and the paperwork Al has, an employee at Petty Enterprises bought this car new.
Not long after, title changed from the original owner to Petty Enterprises.
In the '70s it made its way into private hands.
A previous owner found it without driver's door and front fender, sent it to the body shop, got all new stuff and then sold it.
Al bought it in the late '90s after all the bodywork was done and assembled the car himself from the boxed up parts.
Galen has certified it and it has been awarded a AACA Grand National first place. Estimated 140,000 miles on it.
Article published in Hemmings Muscle Machines in January 2011.

I have never seen this car or know details outside of the Hemmings article and this thread.  A few people on this thread are familiar with the Pokrzywa bird and may be able to add to car details and history. Thanks.

The petty bird was b5 blue from the factory. They switched the front sheet metal and nose cone on the tor red bird and b5 petty bird in the driveway pic and then sold the petty bird.