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Thanks for the welcome. The damage to the nose occured when the pace car came off the track at high speed into the pits!!!!

My next pic is just after I bought it. It had been repainted again -in black- by the second owner - who hated Plum Crazy!!

RealWing, welcome to Moparts! That's a really cool car you have. Good luck with the restoration on it and thanks for sharing the awesome pictures with us!

The final picture is my car being unloaded in my driveway after being painted. Re-assembly is going incredibly slowly!!!!

Just noticed a Superbird on e-bay that I know some history about. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2478818607&indexURL=1#ebayphotohosting First, the serial number on e-Bay is incorrect.It should be RM23V0A165395. I looked at it many years ago when it was stored in a old garage in Ontario Canada. I took some photos at the time. All kinds of junk stored on it. The owner was Warren Stewart - used to race NASCAR Short Tracks long ago. He had a dealership in Michigan before selling and moving to Ontario. He would not sell at the time. It was finally sold to someone in Toronto, Ontario a few years ago, who was restoring it. No idea how it ended up in TN.
Other than the "factory" chrome valve covers - everything else on the e-bay description seems to be correct from what I remember.

I'll post some photos that I took when it was "stored" in the garage.

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Finally, Warren Stewart even had an AMT model (T231) made of his Dodge Dart Chrysler "Kit Car". He showed it to me and I took a picture of the box at the time.

OMG!! and I thought my garage was a mess... Thanks for the great pictures. I should have a bunch of old wing car pics to post on here this week,as long as a get the time to upload them.

Dan

Cool archive wing pictures and stories .Keep them coming great stuff thanks.

Its good to see that we have a few new faces posting pictures in this thread now. I wonder if there will ever be a WingCar's forum on moparts like the A12 forum.
Didn't have a chance to scan in any pics this weekend, was busy babysitting 4 kids on saturday after work, then had my nephew's bday party to attend today. So cars and pics got put on a back burner for family and kids.

Those old pics rock! Especially the ones of cars buried in garages. Everyone's dream find!

WOW.......this info and all the pics are very cool!

Wes

Yes finding the cars nesting in falling down and over cluttered garages .Is every car guys dream.Even better when its maybe a chance of being a found hemi car.This is the garage my 440 daytona was pulled out of were it rested since 1977.The back swing out doors.Had been or come off during a garage renovation and exposed my now cars back end.Allowing it to be discovered by a cop friend of mine on patrol

69 SE Sunroof any pictures to add from the visit of seeing your dads old red daytona.Here is the 500 Q5 picture with you and the car you had posted a while back.Need to see if you could post then and now pictures with the cars from your past. As you know where both these cars are at currently

There is some vinyl top chrome like is on that 500 on e-bay right now......When was the last time you saw that....item # 7901757018 times out today........

here is a picture of the Red on Red Daytona as it appears today.

And here is a picture of how the Q5 500 looks today, its painted V2 orange also.
by the way that is my sister in the picture with both cars from back in 1981.

Danny, them are some way cool current pics of your dad's old cars.

Here's a cool shot from an ebay auction that was sent to me by BBeep71 of the Karl Gould drag Superbird.

Speaking of the chrome trim that was on ebay. Does anyone know if it fabricated by another place and then used on the 500's? I recall seeing a few daytona's in the early 80's that had vinyl tops on them that were obviously not factory, but then I've also seen 3 charger 500's with vinyl tops. So my theory is that Mopar didn't fabricate up 5 or 6 sets of these, as that would be a waste of money? So any theories on who actually fabricated them?

At the MoPower Madness show in Naperville, IL last Sunday, My Daytona won 1st in the Wing Car class, and Best Of Show! B.O.S. was good for a 5 ft. tall trophy!

There are some pics from the show at:
http://www.chicagolandmopar.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=585