Original Owner Superbird!

Original Owner Superbird! (Pics of Paperwork)

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You are looking at a one-owner 1970 Plymouth Superbird with pics of the paperwork to prove it. No, it is not for sale, and won’t be when it’s passed down to a close relative.

The car is in near perfect condition with just one repaint. It was purchased off the dealer lot in SC in December, 1970 for $2,500 after sitting for over a year (original sticker was $4,537).

Here’s the original post from a user on Moparts:
Hello Everyone,


One of my neighbors is an elderly gentleman that still has the 70 Superbird that he bought new. This is largely an unrestored car and has only had one repaint years ago as the original paint was faded. There is absolutely no rust anywhere on this car and it has never been crashed.


The car was starting to get some mechanical wear, as it has been a driver for 43 years, so last year I did a mechanical restoration for him. This included rebuilding the engine, transmission, rear end and front suspension. At this time I confirmed this car a completely numbers matching with the exception of the carburetor. The original interior looks very nice still and has that correct “vintage car smell” you would expect. The original owner is 88 years old and was a career Army man serving in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. He told me he bought this car when he retired from the military in 1970 after serving 25 years. He told me about being in Okinawa when the Japanese surrendered.


I also am including a couple of pictures of the original window sticker and sales receipt showing how cheap these cars were in 1970. As you can see, the car listed for over 4500.00 and sold for 2500.00. I asked the owner if he had to lowball to get this price and he told me no, they said this is the price as they were wanting to sell it badly. It had been on the lot almost a year and they were needing to move it out. He also told me they had 6 more Superbirds on the lot at the same time. All for 2500.00 a piece!!.

 


The owner is FAR from a doddering old man, is sharp as a tack and also has a 2011 Challenger SRT 6.1 that he drives daily. When the weather is nice he drives the Superbird as it runs and drives like a new car.


Before anyone asks, the car is NOT FOR SALE and never will be. A very close relative is already promised the car when the owner passes (hopefully a LONG time from now).


I just wanted to share this with everyone as it is an interesting story and I wanted to show the younger guys that there is hope for getting older and you can still have your musclecars into old age!!”

 

Reprinted from our friends at myclassicgarage.com