1970 Superbird & 1972 Cuda Racing On Interstate 75

Shot from inside a chase car on Interstate 75 in September 1985, this rare home footage captures a 1970 Superbird racing a 1972 Cuda on the open highway, back when winged Mopars were fast cars you drove, not million-dollar museum pieces. The Superbird’s owner narrates the story: a CB-radio challenge during a caravan from Detroit to a Columbus Mopar show. It is a genuine time capsule. Watch this slice of muscle-car history.

This is not a professionally produced clip, and that is exactly what makes it special. What you are about to watch is a genuine slice of 1985, shot from inside a moving Superbird on Interstate 75, back when a winged Mopar was not a million-dollar museum piece but simply a fast car you lined up on the highway with your friends. The man narrating owned the white Superbird in the footage, and the story behind the run, a caravan headed to a Mopar show two states away and a challenge issued over CB radio, is the kind of history that only survives because someone was filming from the car behind. Watching it now feels like opening a time capsule you did not know existed.

A CB Radio Bet Caught On Tape

The setup, as the owner tells it, is pure period detail. In September of 1985, a group of Mopar friends were driving from Detroit, Michigan to a show in Columbus, Ohio, each car linked by CB radio. The narrator lined his Superbird, then still wearing its original Alpine White paint before it became the red, white and blue car he owns today, against a friend’s 1972 Cuda. Another Superbird ran behind them with the camera rolling, and the three-count came down over the airwaves.

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Superbird Meets Cuda On The Open Interstate

The cars themselves are the stuff of legend. The 1970 Plymouth Superbird was Chrysler’s outrageous aero-warrior, built with its towering rear wing and pointed nose cone purely to win at NASCAR’s fastest tracks, and only a limited number were made for the street to satisfy homologation rules. The 1972 Cuda, meanwhile, represents the tail end of the true muscle era, a Barracuda in one of its most desirable forms. Seeing the two run together on an open interstate is a scene that would give a modern collector a heart attack.

What makes this footage priceless is the casualness of it. These were not trailer queens; they were driven, raced, and enjoyed as the performance cars they were designed to be. The values had not yet climbed into the stratosphere, and the culture around them was still about using the cars rather than preserving them behind velvet ropes. That attitude, captured on grainy 1985 video, is a window into a world that no longer exists.

For anyone who laments that the great muscle cars have become too valuable to actually drive, this clip is both a joy and a gentle ache. It is proof that there was a time when a Superbird was just a really cool way to win a highway bet.

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