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Barrett-Jackson’s record $207.6 million Scottsdale sale came down to a countdown of ten muscle cars, including a rare 1970 Plymouth HEMI Superbird and one of only 69 factory-built 1969 Camaro ZL1s. Only one of them claimed the #1 spot. See where the rest of the list landed and what it reveals about today’s muscle car market.
Prepare to have your mind blown by Gary and Pam Beimke’s jaw-dropping creation: a 1971 Plymouth Superbird with a sunroof and a Hemi engine! After getting their hands on documentation for a prototype 1971 Daytona, these automotive alchemists decided to build not one, but two legendary cars. Fast forward to 2003, and voila, the Superbird was born. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Gary and Pam’s masterpiece cruising down the road, turning heads and making muscle car fans swoon. What do you think of their magnificent ride?
A Plymouth Superbird already stands apart from every other muscle car built in 1970 — that towering rear wing and stretched nose cone exist purely because Plymouth needed to homologate an aero package for NASCAR. But the team at USClassicMuscleCars found one at the Muscle Cars and Corvette Nationals in Chicago with a restoration story its owner calls truly one of a kind. Hear what made this Superbird’s comeback different from the rest.
Plymouth hasn’t built a car since 2001, and the real Superbird only existed for one model year back in 1970 — yet somehow this one wears a 2013 build date. Underneath the nose cone and three-piece wing is a modern Dodge Challenger, transformed with an aftermarket aero kit and more badges than most tribute builds bother with. It’s currently for sale through Gateway Classic Cars in Orlando. See how close the recreation gets.
Most aero-warrior muscle cars from the NASCAR homologation era at least got to race. This 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II never did — built to challenge the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird on the high banks, then sidelined by a rule change before it ever turned a competitive lap. Owner Steve Honnell explains the story behind the only one of its kind on Lou Costabile’s My Car Story.
Get ready to rev up your engines with a nostalgic ride back to 1970, featuring the legendary Plymouth Superbird 440 CID Super Commando Six Pack V8! Thanks to the folks at Gateway Classic Cars, we’ve got a gallery of images that’ll make any muscle car enthusiast drool like a kid in a candy store. With its iconic nose cone and towering rear wing, this beast looks like it could take flight at any moment—just don’t expect to see it on the runway at your local airport!
Ryan Brutt’s Auto Archaeologist series pulls back the curtain on a warehouse holding something few collectors ever see in one place: multiple Dodge Daytonas, a Talladega, and a Superbird, Chrysler’s legendary aero-warriors built to dominate NASCAR’s high-banked ovals. Some have already been restored and are back on the road; others, including a damaged Talladega and 500, are waiting their turn. Part three of the series raises the question every serious collector eventually faces.
This 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird, wrapped in TorRed with its towering wing and pointed nose, was reportedly the getaway car in a heist at Harrah’s Casino in Reno, Nevada, before its outlaw drivers were caught. Today it sits fully restored in the respected Brothers Collection, its 426 Hemi V8 far removed from its criminal past. Watch to see how a NASCAR aero car built for speedways ended up on the wrong side of the law.
Ryan Brutt, known online as the Auto Archaeologist, walks into a Midwest barn and finds not one grail car but a whole flock of aero warriors—Daytonas, a Superbird, a Talladega, Charger 500s, and a Cyclone, all parked in the dark. These winged NASCAR homologation specials are among the most valuable American cars ever built, and finding this many together is statistically absurd. It is part treasure hunt, part preservation. See the barn find that earned nearly two million views.
The 1970 Plymouth Superbird is one of the most divisive muscle cars ever made, a winged NASCAR homologation special that dealers once struggled to sell and collectors now chase for fortunes. Built for 190-mph banking and armed with Mopar best engines up to the 426 Hemi, it looked like nothing else on the road. Was it a stroke of genius or an overwrought mistake? Watch and decide for yourself.
Before Mopar’s High-Impact color names became legend, a handful of green paint codes only existed for a single model year, vivid enough to earn nicknames like Sublime and Sassy Grass. This piece traces where those shades came from, why some vanished within twelve months, and how a traffic-light-inspired green ended up on some of the boldest muscle cars of 1969 and 1970.
The 1970 Plymouth Superbird’s towering wing and pointed nose cone existed for one reason: NASCAR homologation rules forced Plymouth to build nearly 2,000 road-going versions just to race the car on Sunday. Buyers could option a 426 Hemi or, more often, a 440 Six Barrel that came surprisingly close to matching its performance. The whole experiment ended after a single model year. Here’s the engine breakdown and the numbers that made the Superbird’s brief run so memorable.
In the early days of muscle madness, the 1970 Plymouth Superbird was the king of the asphalt jungle, flaunting a wing so big it could double as a dining table. Born in the era when carmakers decided that subtlety was overrated, the Superbird zoomed into the spotlight with a 426 Hemi under its hood. It was a time when horsepower was measured in smiles per gallon, and the Superbird delivered with a side of high-speed hilarity, leaving its competition eating dust and questioning their life choices.