 |
Rocket Restorations got a personal invitation from Tim Wellborn himself for an all-access tour of the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum, home to one of the fastest NASCAR Daytonas ever built and a staggering depth of NOS Mopar parts. The tour even includes a drive with Tim narrating decades of Mopar knowledge firsthand. See what earns a museum this kind of praise from a channel that has toured plenty of collections.
Richard Petty and Sox & Martin never raced their real Superbirds head to head, but this tribute match race at the 1991 Mopar Nationals gets about as close as Mopar fans will ever see. Staged at Ohio’s National Trail Raceway, it pits two carefully built homages to stock car racing’s most recognizable liveries against each other in an exhibition run. Watch to see how it plays out.
Ryan Brutt’s Auto Archaeology channel tracks down a Midwest barn packed with Mopar’s rarest aero warriors — a Plymouth Superbird, Dodge Charger Daytona, Charger 500, and more, all sitting together after years out of sight. These wing cars were built in the hundreds specifically to win NASCAR homologation battles, making a collection like this a genuine rarity even among serious collectors. Watch to see exactly what years of storage did to some of Mopar’s most legendary machines.
This 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird carried an original window sticker price of $4,794.62 — and Plymouth reportedly lost money on every single one it built. Saabkyle04 walks through this genuine NASCAR homologation car in first-person detail, covering the nose cone, the towering rear wing, and the original documentation that separates authentic Superbirds from clone builds. It’s one of the strangest, most purpose-built muscle cars Detroit ever sold to the public. Watch the full walkaround to see exactly what that near-five-thousand-dollar sticker actually bought.
Buried behind a barn door in the Midwest sat a collection most collectors only dream about — Superbirds, Talladegas, and a Charger 500, the aero-war Mopars Chrysler built specifically to dominate NASCAR superspeedways. Ryan Brutt walks through the find piece by piece, cataloging decades of dust, original paint, and untouched drivetrains. See what a real barn find of this caliber actually looks like.
A Plymouth Superbird built to chase NASCAR speed records has no business at a stoplight-style drag race — and yet here it is, lined up against a modified street Mustang with a reputation of its own. The Worlds Fastest Street Car List brings two completely different philosophies of speed to the same stretch of pavement. Watch to see which one actually gets to the stripe first.
Forty thousand original miles, matching numbers, and paint that’s never been touched — this 1970 Plymouth Superbird spent decades as a barn find before Randy’s 66 Garage pulled it out of the winter cold to see what was really underneath the grime. A 440 four-speed and a Dana 60 rear end confirm this is no ordinary survivor. Only the battery has ever been replaced. Watch to see the car emerge from years of neglect looking almost exactly as it left the factory.
From the mid-50s to the 70s, American street racers were the kings of cool, cruising boulevards and racing deserted runways. Muscle cars with sleek lines, custom paint jobs, and engines that left police cruisers in the dust were the emperors of the road—and their drivers raced for glory and the fastest girls. But crashes, the law, or love eventually sidelined most racers. Still, some of these legends have been passed down, with grandchildren now revving those engines at local dragstrips.
Ryan Brutt, of Auto Archaeologist fame, tracked down a Midwest barn holding not one but three legendary aero-war Mopars: a Superbird, a Talladega, and a Charger 500, all stored together and untouched for decades. These NASCAR-homologation cars are among the rarest muscle cars Detroit ever built, and finding this many under one roof is nearly unheard of. Watch to see the condition they’re in — and what it takes to get a barn find like this out into daylight.
The 1970 Plymouth Superbird’s 24-inch wing and stretched nose weren’t styling choices, they were wind-tunnel mandates built to win NASCAR races at over 200 mph. Fewer than 2,000 were sold to the public, only 135 got the 426 Hemi, and Richard Petty drove one to 18 victories in its only production season. Here’s the full walk-around on what made it work.
“Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” wasn’t a slogan in the late 1960s — it was a business model, and it produced some of the wildest street cars Detroit ever built. MotorWeek’s Retro Review gathers the Torino, Cyclone, Charger and the winged Superbird to trace how NASCAR shaped the showroom. These were race cars wearing license plates. Watch to see how they earned their reputations.
This wing car belongs to one of the shortest-lived, most dominant classes NASCAR ever allowed on track. A towering rear wing and needle-nose front end were the product of an aerodynamics arms race between Dodge, Plymouth, and Ford that lasted barely two seasons. A single new rule about engine displacement is what finally grounded these cars for good – and made surviving examples legendary.