Richard Petty's 1970 Superbird

[Nesterenko]

I remember in the late 60s going to a local Dodge dealer to see **** Landy . He was doing a drag racing class and gave many tips on increasing the performance of your MOPAR....and yes he had a big cigar with him....

Yeah, cigar chompin' Dandy **** Landy

 

[gman2304]

Sox and Martin from Burlington, N.C. were the Kings of the 1/4 mile when I was a teenager! I saw them at Piedmont Dragway their ‘home track’ in the sixties and seventies. Remember seeing Ronnie Sox and Bill ‘ Grumpy’ Jenkins in the ‘Grumpys Toy’ small block Vega in a best of three event. Grumpy was famous for his cigar chomping as well! Sox and Martin won 2 of three and the home crowd went crazy! Piedmont Dragway is still open and has thrived for over 65 years!

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

I remember in the late 60s going to a local Dodge dealer to see **** Landy . He was doing a drag racing class and gave many tips on increasing the performance of your MOPAR....and yes he had a big cigar with him....

Landy. He always raced and walked around with the cigars and never smoked them! LoL He was a good racer but they say he was an even better mechanic / troubleshooter off the tracks.

 

[hrv]

Sox and Martin from Burlington, N.C. were the Kings of the 1/4 mile when I was a teenager! I saw them at Piedmont Dragway their ‘home track’ in the sixties and seventies. Remember seeing Ronnie Sox and Bill ‘ Grumpy’ Jenkins in the ‘Grumpys Toy’ small block Vega in a best of three event. Grumpy was famous for his cigar chomping as well! Sox and Martin won 2 of three and the home crowd went crazy! Piedmont Dragway is still open and has thrived for over 65 years!

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The 1973 Dodge Colt with the Hemi was a wild ride.....Seen the Sox and Marin one in Cleveland OH in the early 70s racing against a Ford Pinto.....must have been hard to handle those cars and keep them straight down the quarter mile....

 

[OVERKILL]

I was going to mention this, but you beat me to it.
There was a time, up through the eighties, when what are now six or seven figure cars could be bought for very little money.
After all, who wanted a clapped out 426 Hemi car, or an old Ferrari, Lambo, Aston, Maser or Porsche?
Those days have sadly passed and "collectible" cars have become an expensive auction game.

Apparently that was also the case for the BOSS 429 cars. You could snap them up for a song during the 80's and 90's, nobody wanted them, the collectibles were Shelby's. Then Barrett Jackson happened and all of a sudden they were worth a fortune.

 

[OVERKILL]

The 1973 Dodge Colt with the Hemi was a wild ride.....Seen the Sox and Marin one in Cleveland OH in the early 70s racing against a Ford Pinto.....must have been hard to handle those cars and keep them straight down the quarter mile....

I saw a 534 in a Pinto at Shannonville years back. That thing was hairy!

 

[97prizm]

Bored old man happened across this old car fired up again. Dealers could hardly give them away back in the day.

That still blows my mind that those, Yenko Camaros, and a few others were a tough sell. Granted Weren't the superbirds/Daytonas $4800 new back when the average income was $7000 give or take? The Dodge Demons and many Hellcats have gone straight into collector's garages.

 

[4WD]

Sox & Martin Bird

 

[97prizm]

Apparently that was also the case for the BOSS 429 cars. You could snap them up for a song during the 80's and 90's, nobody wanted them, the collectibles were Shelby's. Then Barrett Jackson happened and all of a sudden they were worth a fortune.

A few years ago I was talking to someone about collectors vehicles. Apparently they knew a guy that had to borrow money from his brother but he found a Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird in a junkyard and bought both for $5k. The junkyard owner was scrapping everything as he was retiring. Apparently he sold both at Barrett Jackson when they had the pair sale when every sale was a pair of vehicles. He managed I think either 500k or a million for each.

 

[fdcg27]

A few years ago I was talking to someone about collectors vehicles. Apparently they knew a guy that had to borrow money from his brother but he found a Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird in a junkyard and bought both for $5k. The junkyard owner was scrapping everything as he was retiring. Apparently he sold both at Barrett Jackson when they had the pair sale when every sale was a pair of vehicles. He managed I think either 500k or a million for each.

Well, we all know a guy who knew a guy.
Most scrap yard owners are pretty plugged in to what their inventory is worth.
Still, if this actually happened, the yard owner was probably happy to get the five grand and the buyer made bank.

 

[97prizm]

Well, we all know a guy who knew a guy.
Most scrap yard owners are pretty plugged in to what their inventory is worth.
Still, if this actually happened, the yard owner was probably happy to get the five grand and the buyer made bank.

Pull n pay has no clue what the stuff in their yard is worth. They're one of the worst run companies I've ever seen. My dad and I went a few years back and we ran into the yard manager. They had a Cadillac Allante with the matching hard top. The hard tops alone fetch a grand or more. I wanted to remove a V-10 out of an Audi S8 but never have removed an engine and didn't have any help. Those go for $1-5,000 depending on condition. This lady had no idea what anything was worth. Shoot my dad told me I should've asked her for her number as she was kinda cute.

 

[clinebarger]

Pull n pay has no clue what the stuff in their yard is worth. They're one of the worst run companies I've ever seen. My dad and I went a few years back and we ran into the yard manager. They had a Cadillac Allante with the matching hard top. The hard tops alone fetch a grand or more. I wanted to remove a V-10 out of an Audi S8 but never have removed an engine and didn't have any help. Those go for $1-5,000 depending on condition. This lady had no idea what anything was worth. Shoot my dad told me I should've asked her for her number as she was kinda cute.

A lot of Pick N Pull's are overflow of controlled inventory yards making everything there worth whatever scrap will bring.....Install some low wage people to run a credit card machine, A register & use a pricing software....Off to the races.

 

[jhs914]

I remember in the late 60s going to a local Dodge dealer to see **** Landy . He was doing a drag racing class and gave many tips on increasing the performance of your MOPAR....and yes he had a big cigar with him....

The board censors won't let you day "Richard" Landy?

 

[hrv]

Apparently that was also the case for the BOSS 429 cars. You could snap them up for a song during the 80's and 90's, nobody wanted them, the collectibles were Shelby's. Then Barrett Jackson happened and all of a sudden they were worth a fortune.

The 429 Boss was tried in fuel dragsters but the engine had issues.I remember Connie Kallita talking about the issues they had with that engine...

 

[OVERKILL]

The 429 Boss was tried in fuel dragsters but the engine had issues.I remember Connie Kallita talking about the issues they had with that engine...

It was, and still is, successfully used in Pro Stock Mountain Motor. Not sure about other classes.

The 427 SOHC (Cammer) had a successful run in various venues, but lack of support from Ford eventually meant its demise.
90-Day Wonder: Ford's Infamous SOHC 427 Cammer (motortrend.com)

Back to reality, the SOHC arsenal continued to make a name for itself. "Sneaky Pete" Robinson took the 1966 NHRA World Championship in his Cammer-powered dragster. Dyno Don Nicholson had a winning season with his Cyclone Comet, which continued into the 1967 season, with A/FX evolution segueing from the use of original bodies to tube chassis with fiberglass lift-off bodies. Logghe Stamping in nearby Fraser, Michigan, became the source of ladder-type tubular chassis for the SOHC-powered cars.

In 1967 Kalitta came out of nowhere to win the NHRA Winternationals, the AHRA Winternationals the next week, and finally the NASCAR winter championships in Deland, Florida. Running a 6.81-second at 219-mph quarter-mile, he would stick with the SOHC from 1966 to 1970.

Prudhomme drove the Baney dragster for two years, snagging the first 6-second NHRA national event winner honors with it. Other SOHC dragsters hot on the trail were Jim Cooke's driven by Bob Muravez, aka Floyd Lippencott Jr.; Tom Hoover's short-tail/long-tail; and later Chuck Griffith. Danny Ongais won almost every event he entered in 1969 with Mickey Thompson's SOHC Mustang Funny Car, and "Dyno Don" Nicholson took the 1971 Winternationals with a Cammer-powered Maverick in the new no-handicap Pro Stock class.