Tuesday, July 5, 2011

39,000 mile Petty blue Superbird (part5) Reference Original



















The little details that were still on this car after the initial cleaning are amazing. The paint is in great shape except for the drivers front fender and a scrape mark of 3 or 4 lines running down the passenger side Plymouth decal. The nose has a dent in the top and is pushed in a little from a cherry picker that was used to replace a bearing in the bottom end. As I recall the gears in the Dana were also replaced after breaking the pinion doing a burn out in the Gallo parking lot.
All the different wheels kinda made me wonder what came on this Bird. In the back yard was a set of 15 inch rallye wheels but the centers were wrong. In the garage was a set of black pained rims standing against the wall. I pulled one out to look at them and noticed the Petty Blue paint inside the barrels. 4 perfect 1970 Plymouth hub caps stacked on the work bench. I took these home and a bit of paint thiner and a few rags the rattle can black was gone and the original blue was in great shape. Please read next post. "The Beat Goes On"

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