Oh yeah these cars were purely American dream machines. I actually remember a Super Bird / Super Bee show not far from my house when I was younger. It was at local motel and there must have been about two dozen of these cars in attendance. I remember driving by thinking it was kind of neat, but not much more. Duh. I should have stopped and taken pictures of everyone. Read more about the amazing Plymouth super cars here: LINK
The Road Runners of that era (on which this is based) had some of the greatest lines of any cars ever made.
Richard Petty drove that car to victory numerous times in the 70’s. Good stuff.
Pete Hamilton was Petty’s team mate during that time…when NASCAR raced REAL machines and not cookie-cutter tinfoil and decal-laden clones of each other.
THOSE were the good old days!
Nice ride.
Yeah I love the old NASCAR films with all the different cars racing. The cars looked like they just came off the street onto the track. Cool stuff.
That pic appears to be of a modified ’71 Roadrunner; it isn’t a real Superbird. I’ve read that consideration was given to producing a ’71 ‘Bird, but that’s as far as it got.