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It’s unclear why anyone in their right mind would buy this $65,000 426 hemi 440 + 4 speed equipped 1970 Superbird when you could have your own Überbird for “$500″.
Beep Beep!
There’s the minor detail of the 3 speed auto Vs 4 speed stick, several liters of displacement, the quality of the paint, the presence of any interior, and some modicum of racing heritage to be addressed, but seriously: do you thin you’d have 130 times the fun with this example?
Uberbird or not I still think this is a good deal for a legit superbird even if it is a little joe dirt
I belong in the Detroit Iron for Dummies aisle, but even I know that Hemi+4 speed+Superbird is the ultimate combination. Even with the market's recent plunge, at 65k I was expecting a basket case, considering the record auction price headlines.
The paint is so ridiculously smooth on this bird. Who are they trying to fool?
All the astute collectors know to look for the "post-birthday-party-vomit texture" on a paintjob.
Or feathers.
After much deliberation on the matter, I came to the conclusion long ago that the only old-school American muscle that could elicit more than a shrug and a noncommittal "meh" from me is a Superbird/Daytona or a lookalike conversion along the lines of Mike Musto's ANGRIER from BullRun. They're just so over the top one can't help but love them. The ability to completely eviscerate the speed limit in three states simultaneously is nothing to be sneezed at either — they're gigantic cars!
Gigantic midsize cars! That's the best part.
Maybe they will knock 60k off for all of the detailing that has to be done…
I want a Superbird bad, but this disappoints me.
426 hemi440Without further photographic evidence, it's hard to tell, but this car would be worth significantly more money if it were "clean". Can you spare $40K for detailing?
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I've only seen one genuine superbird in person, it was in better condition than this one, sitting on the greatest used car lot I've ever come across (Park Place Motors in Bellevue) with a price tag more than double this… it was gone within a week.
Park Place is a fun, um, place to visit. I have always found their prices a bit high but it is Bellevue and they charge what they can get.
Yeah, by and large the prices are a bit up there, but by god do they get some interesting stuff. Every now and then they have something that's not horrendously overpriced. I remember a E39 M5 they had, black on black with a 6sp, Dinan chip, and <100k miles on it, absolutely perfect interior for <$25k.
There was also a fully prepped street to track E46 M3, CSL trunk, CSL roof, GTR Hood, Supercharged and intercooled to something like 600 hp @ the wheels, caged with harnesses, I mean it was ready to go. They had a price on it of something like $43k.
Call me a blasphemer if you must…
but I would prefer a 'Cuda to the Superbird (I didn't say Uberbird, mind you….)
Not long ago, these were going for 125 grand. Cherry, of course, but I don't care about a trailer queen. Once again, I'd spend my imaginary money on this monster. This is Cool. No doubt about it. I mean, this is testosterone on four wheels. An Italian super car is sexy, but a Superbird is the holy grail of musclecars. A sucker punch as opposed to a caress. Drop the clutch on this beast and you're living.
"Drop the clutch on this beast and you're living."
Well done, I read that in Matteo McConaughey's voice… L-I-V-I-N
They want this kind of money for it because it's The King from Cars and think it will pay off to have a "movie car" up for sale.
This car is a righteous ride, but since it was built prior to the Daimler takeover —and then subsequent dumping-on and then just dumping— it doesn't have the sweet Deutsch engineering that the Uber Bird possesses. Look at it this way, both would get stared at on the road, and both would probably conjure images of white trash in the minds of unknowing motorists. I'm thinking maybe Uber Bird is the way to go after all.
Uber Bird FTW!
Up in PA by my place there's an old guy who has two of these (yes, 2) in his barn, luckily out of sight to passers by. They've been there since my other half, John, was in high school, so at least (mental math, ouch) 25 years. John knows the guy and has approached him a few times over the years asking him if he'd sell. He always said no, they meant something to him and have a nice day.
We noticed a few months ago the roof on the side of the barn where the cars are (were) stored is semi collapsed, like something inside is keeping it from fully collapsing. We agreed we'd go find out what's going on, see if they were still in there…for the sake of history, I hope not. Sadness would ensue for sure.
Ohh… keep us posted!
Will do – for sure. I think I'll take that trip this weekend in honor of this story. And take the camera.
The engineerd Fair Market Value (eFMV™) WOPR-like computer fried a tube or transistor on this one. This probably isn't a bad price for a true Superbird, and even in economically-challenged times these cars will sell. A little work on cleaning it up and it would really be worth it. I have no point of reference for where a clean example sells, but I'm assuming it's north of $75k.
I was driving home from college one day and passed one of these going the other way. It is the only one I have ever seen. I was maybe 30 miles east of the Columbia river in the middle of Washington and really near nothing but farmland on a very long straight section of highway 26. It makes me wonder about what other fantastic automobiles are squirreled away in all those barns.
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