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Published: 2016-09-04 00:31:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 816; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 5
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1970 Plymouth Road Runner SuperbirdHere's the story:
This car's been in the same family for generations (and they wish to keep it that way). Unfortunately, three years ago this Superbird was hit by another car. Finding new old stock parts proved impossible, so what you see here are the original nose and fenders massaged back into shape (of note, they drove it from Pennsylvania to Florida to have this done, if only new MoPars had that kind of durability!). Sadly, they still need some parts to complete the restoration before it can be painted. I took a picture of the damaged picture with the car and uploaded it to my Scraps:
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As you can see, they've already managed the impossible in fixing the nose. If anyone can help with NOS parts, I can put you in contact with the car's owner.
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They reproduce these noses and other part's.
www.wingedwarriorbodyparts.com…
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The owner is specifically looking for new old stock, and not repro parts.
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The Simeone may have contacts. They have a similar one of these and might know the right person.
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Thanks for the tip!
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more here:
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and for this car, here:
laurentroy.deviantart.com/gall…
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How tragic. I seem to recall that a couple of the big Auto Trade mags advertise companies that make body parts for cars, including your Road Runner. There's also one here locally, but I haven't seen it in ten years.
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They made a little under 2,000 of them in 1970...
...But people have been cloning them from Road Runners, Satellites, and Belvederes since at least the 1980s, so there are probably more now than there were in 1970 (the same can be said for 1970 Boss 302 Mustangs). How many of the real ones are left? There's no way of knowing that exact number, but it's estimated that over a thousand of the real ones remain.
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The current figure generally accepted is 1,935 SuperBirds built and shipped to United States dealers originally in 1969/1970. How many left on the road and currently actively registered is unknown. A lot of them never see the road under their own power, they are hauled around from garage to trailer to field and back again. Just as recently as 2012 or 2013 I think, two Superbirds were coaxed out of a hillbilly's forest as a father and son project and under very very strict terms set by the owner for him to give them up. The price they paid is unknown. The worst of the two was set to be a restoration, the best of the two was going to be left alone and restored mechanically but not physically.
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