1970 Plymouth Superbird 426 Hemi Muscle Car Of The Week Video #57

1970 Plymouth Superbird 426 Hemi Muscle Car Of The Week Video #57
There is nothing subtle about this week's Muscle Car Of The Week. This Everything about this 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird helps it to stand out in a crowd... the brilliant TorRed color, the high rear wing, the aerodynamic nose, and of course, the growling 426 Hemi V8 under the hood. However, this very car was chosen by some not-so-brilliant outlaws to be the getaway car from a Harrah's Casino heist in Reno, Nevada. Although they might have thought the speed of a NASCAR super speedway flyer like this would have helped them escape, they were quickly apprehended and the car taken from them. Today, the car lives a much more lawful existence in the Brothers Collection, where it resides in restored glory safe from wrongdoers. We certainly don't condone unlawful acts, but we bet the getaway ride was fun!
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[@christopherg9806]

I like this narrator/presenter because he speaks in a matter-of-fact tone without being boring. So many car shows have syrupy announcers or excessively excitable hosts, but this guy just lays out the facts and lets you enjoy the car. I would have liked to hear the Mopar gear reduction starter sound and maybe a view from inside the car while driving, but it was an entertaining video otherwise.

[@williamboardman9476]

+Christopher G Smell the carpeting....

[@steveallred1330]

Christopher I said the same thing about this guy he speaks very well very informative about what he's presenting for cars I like listening to him talk about them

[@SolamenteVees]

Kevin is so good, I’ll even watch the non-Mopar videos. Top-notch emcee.

[@beefwithjacob1869]

im 23 and these cars give me goose bumps. Will hopefully own one.

[@wes326]

Saw one for sale back in 1980 for $3500, don't remember if it was a hemi or not. I always liked their function over form. A real race car for the street.

[@tomjones6412]

As a kid in the summer of 1970 going to stay with my aunt and uncle right outside Lynchburg Va. during school break. I remember seeing at least one of three different colored Superbirds pretty often roaming the streets when we went to town in Lynchburg. Several times I'd see all three in the same day.

[@kennyburns5322]

Tom one of those Superbirds was mine. It was the lime light green one I still have it today. It's getting a full restoration as of this comment. It only has 61,000 orginal miles.

[@billflk2364]

Does it have a hemi, everytime I see a late 60s and early 70s mopar i remember that commercial, dosat got a hemi, lol.

[@maronraymon5295]

Beautiful color on this Superbird.

[@maronraymon5295]

A friend of mine had a Cadillac with a 500 in it when I was in high school. It truly was a land yacht. You could hit snow drifts with it and it would just glide through, like a snow plow.

[@coiledsteel8344]

My COLLEGE friend said his 69 Charger actually went so fast - the rear deck end started to lift up! He had to back off speed! Was 440 6 pack.

[@jeffreyrubish347]

I grew up in a town of 5,280 people where somebody actually had one of these in the early 70's. I knew it was special even then.

[@specialk5548]

You know what's nice about this car? You could be doing a 150 MPH and it seemed like you were driving at 55mph no kidding it's smooth.

[@markwegner6100]

Nice job on the video. Great car. My older friend used to be a car salesman, & you're correct-he said they sat on the dealership floors. Very hard to sell at the time. Who knew?

[@mikescaffo4850]

Wow what a beautiful beast dodge and Plymouth were just killing it back the

[@jeremythompson9895]

Cool story. Definitely fast enough to be a getaway car, but not exactly inconspicuous lol. Those sleeper 66 hemi Belvederes and Dodge Coronets would be the perfect getaway car

[@someguy332]

Man I would kill to get a super bird or a Daytona and I'm a Die hard internatanl and Chevy guy but I do have a soft spot for mopar

[@williamboardman9476]

+Wright Mike PLEASE no felonies. Check Canada for border patrol BELVEDERE POST coupes....QEW pursuit cars (2 door). SUBFRAME CONNECT any you find. Last I did was a Sport Satellite, with 400 and heads, A/C, PW, 2 six-way seats, six speed from a T/A Firebird.

[@Kylie_Koku_]

Wright Mike in 2018 the dodge Daytona and the Plymouth super bird are very rare and hard to find and the ones you do find online have a price tag of 600,000 dollars

[@yavin99]

I love Mopars but I still really like Chevy, I would love to have a 60s Camaro or Chevelle.

[@tomlea3713]

Great video as always that contained lots of interesting details like the difference between the Superbird and Daytona nose and wing. Never knew that and I prefer the Daytona after seeing this. Chrysler fit and finish wasn't the best and the interior materials always seemed really cheap compared to GM and Ford but they had really cool styling, stout drivelines and went like crazy. I remember one of these sitting in my Aunt and Uncles neighbors driveway when I was a kid in the 70's. It seemed over the top even back then, larger than life. Sat there for a few years...

[@rtking1969]

Nothing like sticking out in a crowd.

[@jimwilson2287]

I have never seen a superbird with a strip around the tail pan..

[@freefall321]

Beautiful Ride

[@slacadjuster237]

Evan Camaros and Mustangs have a hero....That'd be this car

[@theoriginalmungaman]

Orange dammit!

[@dodgedaytona25]

At 4:20 he says they had a stripe that went around the rear and that this car is unique because it has a "stripe delete package" on this car. NO SuperBirds ever came with a stripe. That was the Charger Daytona that had the stripe around the rear. And ALL SuperBirds came with a vinyl top.

[@williamboardman9476]

+dodgedaytona25 Nice profile pic. Stripes MAYBE referring to are REAR face upper of "regular" Road Runner, above tail light recess panel cove.

[@dodgedaytona25]

+William Boardman Thanks. Actually he said, " They had a stripe that went "around the tail pan". True the Road Runners had a rear face stripe. But the SuperBirds didn't have that rear facing stripe.

[@mygmailaccount5393]

Saved me posting this. Superbirds did not come with the transverse stripe that came on the regular Road Runner.

[@Jgeneraledger23]

It's funny how everyone does the 'dog dish' thing. When these cars were new, nearly all of them had full wheelcovers, or Magnum 500s. When people restore these cars, they always put on the dog dish covers, even though almost none of them came thru that way.

[@williamboardman9476]

+John L Check Ted Stephen's '68 Hemi Charger R/T...red w/ black vinyl topFull DISC brake hubcaps...now seen two sets. The other day on a '68 Barracuda 340 car.DAYTONAS came through, as did 500s, with tossable wheels, same as DRAG M20 / M12 multi-carb 440 Coronet Super Bees and Road Runners.COPS and / or HD fleet wheels in 15 x 7 are VERY heavy.Powder coat some CENTERLINES in size you TUCK and FLUSH with body sides BLACK...and add hubcaps full off DODGE that LOOK mag. MAGNUM 500s are heavy too. Boss FORD 429s are bigger at 8 x 15...but Mopar SUPER COUPE (Aspen / Volare' deal) are 15 x 8, without center cap retaining bumps on ring for poverties or dog dish. Go over 15 inch for real brakes, and you lose lettering. Steelies hide diameter, as can attach center cap somehow anyway over lugs, and red lines from DIAMONDBACK are cool radials, in sizes. Black rims also hide short performance sidewall, with red lines.POINT was to sell BODIES and ENGINES for homologation. Delivery wheels were a cheap request on order form, vs. cost of wheels taken off upon delivery...USE.LOTS of DAYTONAS pushed out /delivered EARLY in spring 1969, with Magnesium slots, recalled after a few weeks, as dealerships over torqued as prep, and would crack lug pockets. Rare, and now repro with better casting...not cheap. Center caps original maybe used by NASA on moon car, good luck with THAT.

[@Jgeneraledger23]

+William Boardman That's really good to...KNOW! Thanks for...SHARING!!

[@williamboardman9476]

All I can DO.

[@georgeburdine5660]

That thing is sick. So what if it has a column shift.

[@vmat1000]

I used to see a green one of these used as a daily driver circa '80. One morning i saw it at the corner of a busy intersection and the passenger front suspension had failed. Interesting i never saw it again. Guess is was fixed, parked and replaced with a Corolla.

[@maronraymon5295]

I remember band camp. 😂

[@stripervince1]

Couldn't give these away in 1970 for $4500. This one would sell at Mecum or Barrett Jackson for close to a million today

[@andrewashington6462]

Tbose were the days of muscle cars..!!

[@DanielCollins85]

Its not original paint if the car paint perfectly matches the nose and wing color. They werent painted at the same place.

[@spchallenger340]

Mopar or No Car !!

[@chadshepard3449]

nice find :)

[@470HELLEPHANT]

3:50 everybody with a Dodge gets pulled over in TEXAS , trust me ... I just bought my Dodge Ram & cops would tag me everyday day on my way to work & I didn’t know why ? & then I said oh wait my truck turns heads 🐏

[@d33day63]

the super bros have it all

[@garywood9525]

Hey, Bonnie and Clyde had the brains to use a Dodge or Chevy to rob the Bank while they dumped it just outside the town to get into there V8 FORD to escape as the Cops were told what the witnesses saw driving away which was the Dodge or Chev.

[@williamboardman9476]

Clyde wrote HENRY a Thank-You letter for FORDS, weeks before field turkey shoot. Dillinger too. Dawsonville ain't about FORDS for good looks. Truck plant just south of ATLANTA made chassis / suspension parts we used to deliver. Hwy #9 copperhead road, and on tracks across US.

[@Joyboy13257]

I like the Superbirds better than the Daytonas personally. Good video. I saw a whole lot of them at Chryslers at Carlisle last weekend. But what I do want to see is the 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. 6 ever made and all under the noses of the executives. I would want to see you guys do that

[@williamboardman9476]

+Walter Joy Let's say....before NASCAR banned HEMI in season passed, KING went drag racing in "Jr." car Valiant fastback Barracuda...Mother MOPAR builds TWO (2) Plymouth HEMI Satellites out of aluminum...Ships to LEE. Lee paints one white, and drives on street...daily.Other sits in shop, prepped for season NOT ALLOWED to run. A friend answered Lee ad maybe a couple years later, had cash flow.LOOKED, verified #s...VINs...LEE wanted to sell BOTH in a deal.Bud only wanted the one, so passed on BOTH.BUD miles from Watkins Glen bought a Sox and martin Barracuda in full graphics, cross ram tub HEMI car. Shot thin white OVER graphics, so showed through in daylight, and added pearl over thin. Drives on streets of salt.John Z. DELORAN picked up phone (likely RED), and called Ontario plant for 50 base model Firebirds. Ordered 50 GM order code package Z / 28 drivetrains shipped UP there, to install. As factory 1969 Trans Am Firebirds couldn't run in series named for, as 400 blocks too big for 5.0 class. Delivered direct to tracks up North. (Watkins Glen, St. Jovie, Road America)No hoods, tail pedestal spoilers, extractors on front fenders, delivery wheels. No exhaust. No bumpers.A couple of phone calls.

[@davedocker1195]

In 1974 I could have bought one for $2,500. I kick myself in the ass daily.

[@alexgolovchenko3791]

Great story, nice car. The car is probably worth a thousand times more by today's standards than the robbers took back then. Kind of ironic in a wierd sort of way. 🤓

[@kylethompson9368]

Richard Petty was nearly impossible to beat in this car

[@mrblack6467]

He said 8 3/4 rear. Didn't the Hemi cars gave a Dana?

[@chrislore2681]

mr black6 only 4 speed hemis....not the automatics... my boss is 1970 Hemi Cuda what the torqueflite has a 8 and 3/4 also

[@grayfox4554]

The nose and wing are or were recently available new. Get some bucks, get the appropriate body, the nose and wing and walaa a look alike you can drive all you want. Install a Hemi crate motor with FI and drivetrain and have FUN! No worries about depreciation or hurting the value of a vintage 'High Performance Car'. Nope none.

[@fullfunk]

+Bob Stinson which body can we use to make a superbird clone?

[@grayfox4554]

+Alejandro Road Runner to build a Superbird. Charger for a Daytona. I would want to build a 69 Daytona. The web site is www.wingedwarriorbodyparts.com They supply parts for the Daytona and the Superbird. There's a lot there to look at.

[@grayfox4554]

+Alejandro Alejandro, if by chance you were. to set about to build one of these. iconic mega motor winged monsters promise me this that you'lldocument the entire process . and upload it here on KZbin. There will be so. many views you could quite possibly pay for the build with the revenue you'll make. Promise?

[@fullfunk]

Bob Stinson first i need a good roadrunner for the base! thats an idea

[@williamboardman9476]

+Bob Stinson Guy in TEXAS, guy from MELLING RACING ...FABRICATION CHIEF, now up in NY. We made ours in Dawsonville, tucked into rows at MOPAR shows. People didn't notice lack of vinyl, or regular Belvedere / Satellite rear window, as long as painted Petty blue with magnetic graphics from Chrysler parts"kit car".

[@dmeadows1985]

How are you going to showcase a Roadrunner and NOT honk the horn? :P

[@tomnekuda3818]

If you're gonna rob a bank it's a good idea to have a get-away car that blends right in.......like a SuperBird!! Einstein Bros.......

[@logicn.reasoning9744]

Picture Ron Swanson talking while listening to this.

[@megan6228]

This narrorator sounds like ron swanson from parks and recreation lol

[@sheldonbaggs4634]

very very nice car but where are the AMC vehicles!!!!!

[@williamboardman9476]

+sheldon baggs JUST bought 1/18th scale METAL car trailer.SET behind 2 (two) 1970 REBEL MACHINES in red...With a Red / white tail DAYTONA on the trailer...all 1/18 scale.I think Daytona nose cone will fit as AMC never had budget, and KNOW wing will. Had AMX in RWB on trailer behind other MACHINE, not yet decided on paint scheme to make up in RWB, as SC Rambler "B" scheme BETTER than gaudy "A" scheme for 1969. Doing a '74 Gremlin with a '68 AMX nose clip...making it an AMX GT (for pizza delivery), and a '78 PACER white, with BOSS 429 Magnum 500s, Pierre Cardin Paris / New York SILK tie interior...for a PCPCRPC car, with a light bar for 500 pacing.

[@Leatherface123.]

Behind the mopar

[@theoriginalmungaman]

Tor-Red is the same as Hemi orange. It is not "bright red"!

[@MuscleCarOfTheWeek]

+theoriginalmungaman We used "Bright" to describe the color, we also state the proper name "Tor-Red" in this piece. After all, Tor-Red is pretty Bright!

[@theoriginalmungaman]

+MuscleCarOfTheWeek True, but its pretty ORANGE too with slight metallic in it. Awesome videos by the way!

[@williamboardman9476]

+theoriginalmungaman .....Tor-as in TORREDOR / BULL(bull fighter).Mine with an El Toro air base RED security sticker. CAPE is Orange on one side to greet bull. RED other side is to piss him off . . . to blind rage, and kill him. My Hemi 71, NEVER the same description on tickets by various states cops, gas station lines. NOT HEMI orange, NOT Vitamin C, NOT Red. It flip flops in sun...VERY hard to match, so paint entire, at least side profile, or fade from front to rear to match original that paint that's left. Like claiming DODGE Plum Crazy is same as Plymouth In-Violet. Sublime DODGE not same as Plymouth Lime Light, nor Sassy Grass. Curious NOT Top Banana, nor Lemon Twist.

[@williamboardman9476]

+MuscleCarOfTheWeek MOST of the 1971 55 Hemi cars produced either Fleet white (thin truck paint for graphics expected added), Tor-Red (STP), or Petty (Corporate Chrysler) blue. Few in other colors. Winchester Gray is stealth, black (Ebony) is wicked. Sassy Grass with Orange insert interior was drug related order.

[@theoriginalmungaman]

+William Boardman Don't know what your tryng to say? Tor red is the same paint as Hemi orange! Its not hard at all to blend either?

[@bradfordmcdermott2063]

The car in fast 6?

[@Hot80s]

4:13 that looks like piano black on the inside of those doors thats way too shiny to be correct.

[@gocubsgo7609]

yeah rob a bank or a casino...lol

[@gocubsgo7609]

I wonder if the agents decided to save government money and drive it to impound yard as apposed to having it towed.

[@johnwilkerson2195]

I would used a less noticeable car

[@NoChaserNoChaser504]

if you guys had a choice Super Bird or Daytona

[@alexandercurtis4427]

I would choose a Daytona. The Superbird was cool, but the Daytona was faster and looked slightly more aggressive.

[@jb0426]

This guy needs to research this car a little better.

[@ZEZERBING]

as I recall, the nose was poorly made and fitted.and you can see that in the video. also, they had cooling problems.

[@williamboardman9476]

+ZEZERBING So...here at TALLADEGA, in 1969 first even weekend...Boddy Allison GETS OUT OF THE CAR during a red flag stop ON TRACK.(Think idiot Sterling at DAYTONA 500 in 2001 in an INTREPID R/T).You can't TOUCH the car to improve aero, or contact problem...WITH HANDS or crew.Bobby gets out, as car is running HOT.Peels off tab of 200 MPH tape off skinny grille opening. No worries, didn't TOUCH the body...But then SMOOTHS remaining tape ends.Teams flip as see him DO that.Restacked to the back for restart, or protested later... I mean WAY later, as ALL give him a hard time about it at reunion at 25th anniversary of track, in 1994...as HE recently in wreck BAD, and loss of Davey earlier...so NOT there.He shows up....WITH the piece of tape.Thanks FORD owners who showed Talladegas and Mercurys, as claims never got to SEE any from rear.Was a great event.Laps on track Saturday pre-Busch event, looked like a 1970 post card.CHIN shovel spoilers NOT so much for aero downforce, but AIR into opened panel at base of nose cone. Superbird no problem, as learned from '69 efforts.

[@theclever3963]

you are so right.......my friend owned one and we went cruising in redlight to redlight traffic 25mph zones and if it was warm weather you simply couldn't keep it from overheating.....in the dead of winter like 20 degrees it was much better but still gave us problems.....I preferred my 69 GTX 440 or my 440 six pack 71 cuda

[@EricH928]

"Most unique" grrrrr.

[@loucaruso3971]

Did"nt Mention Trunk Could"nt Open As Daytona Did Without Hitting Top Of Wing.....Stay Strong....Peace

[@jamesbond9873]

Car needs a LS and a 9” diff. And stop saying all that jazz please.

[@steveallred1330]

The only good thing American Motors made was the Jeep that's why Chrysler wanted it so bad

[@edwardyoung522]

Not true. The Javelin was a great one. I had one for my first car, a 1970 SST. It had a small V8(304 ci), but it was a blast to drive. I would have it TODAY If I hadn't wrecked it. That was back in 1981!

[@my2ube306]

This has got to be one of the ugliest cars ever made. And, its equipped with some of the ugliest wheels ever made. But what could you expect in 1969? Chrysler products back then were ugly UGLY cars. You could also expect them to break down every time a bird peed on one of them. I've never owned a Chrysler product and thats not all.....I never will.

[@jhancock1575]

My2ube dish hub caps were common at that time even for muscle cars. People saved money on appearance options and spent money on performance options. I agree with you, these were ugly muscle cars. Fast but not pretty.

[@GlassTopRX7]

Special cars but they are fugly.