Lot Of Three! 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird
Waking up and finding a listing for not one, not two, but THREE Plymouth Superbirds for sale as a lot really got my day off on the good foot, and while there’s plenty to get excited about here, let’s go ahead and get the bad news out of the way first. I kept looking, scrolling, refreshing the page, and the bad news is the number 4. A total of FOUR photos are provided, and not 4 pictures of each car, but four photos…. period! The good news is that just about everything else is good news, including the seller, Malcolm Autos in Peebles, Ohio. Bob Malcolm opened his Chrysler dealership in 1968, which we’ll hit on in more detail below, but without further ado let’s check out this trio of Winged Warriors! They can be found here on eBay, and if you have a minimum of nearly 3/4 of a million dollars to invest, you can place the opening bid of $715,000. Barn Finds would like to thank reader Larry D. for this great tip!
The history behind this car dealership is that Bob ran the business for a number of years, and being a car enthusiast himself, amassed quite a collection of rare and desirable Mopars over the years. But the time came to begin selling off some of them a while ago, and in 2017 we featured this beautiful 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona that was said to be a 3,692-mile survivor, of which the Malcolms were only its third owners. Fast forward to 2022, and three more of their winged cars are on the hunt for optimistic birdwatchers. The Alpine White Superbird has a 440 cubic inch 4-Barrel with an automatic transmission. A dated block and bench seat are the only other tidbits of information shared with us about this one.
We get a little more information about the Tor-Red car, which they say was sold when it was new at the Malcolm dealership back in 1970. This car is also an automatic, with a dated 440 block and a 4-Barrel, and is said to come with a lot of documentation. The other info we get on the red Superbird is that it has a bench seat.
The Blue Fire Metallic car may be the most desirable of the bunch, as not only is it claimed to be an all numbers-matching example, but it’s also a 440 6-Pack car with a console-shift automatic. Even though we get less than a handful of photos and not too much of a detailed description of any of these 3 cars to go on, the pictures depict three really top-notch looking winged cars, and I’m guessing the seller placed them on eBay for the attention factor and to try and lure potential buyers to Ohio to look at the cars in person. There are a couple of other nice-looking Mopars visible in the photos as well, and I’m wondering what other cars the Malcolms may still be sitting on. What are your thoughts on this trio of 1970 Plymouth Superbird wing cars?
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I WANT the blue one….unfortunately, I can only drool, uh, I mean dream about owning it! :-)
Nah, you meant drool. Ask me how I know ?
Just think of all the cloths you could dry if you had all 3. All kidding aside pretty special to see 3 together. Might be the best investment in this volatile market.
I saw this one at a car show in Fries,VA.
I find it interesting that I often happen to see the
same kind of cars that you feature here,at/near
the same time.
Wow, very nice spotting and thanks for sharing it with us! What can you tell us about the Superbird?
I saw a yellow Superbird at my local Cars And Coffee back in 2019, and just had to take a video of it leaving and put on the tube, a 43k mile original car. 440 4-Speed, same owner for 40 years.
Also a beautiful yellow Z/28 at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpRDsjp6Ms0
It had a 440 & 4 speed.
Outstanding!
My jaw hit my desk. Wow…what a thing to see as the first item when you click on barnfinds. What a find
Mike thanks for posting the video. IMO that Superbird sure trumped that Camaro in exhaust sound. There was a very small closed Plymouth dealership not far from me in a small town, Dayton, TN (home of the Scope’s Trial), that the owner had three of these and they sat outside for many years. One was blue, one yellow and the other one was orange. They all looked complete, but eventually started becoming victims of the tin worm. They were already valuable then and I could not understand why the owner did not keep them inside. One day when I was up there visiting my now ex-wife’s grandparents they were all gone and I never knew what happened to them.
What a small world, RoughDiamond. I lived in Dayton, TN for a while and worked at a car magazine publishing company that was located in the old Plymouth dealership building you spoke of. It was long after the 3 Superbirds disappeared though. I don’t know the fate of the blue or orange car, but around 2010 somebody in Dayton was in the process of restoring the yellow Superbird, and here is a video shot from a car wash of it driving down Highway 27 in Rhea County circa 2010. I moved a year or so afterward and don’t know the fate of the car after that, or if it remained in Dayton or not, but you’d often see it around town driving, even in the rain. He eventually got the decals on the last time I saw it and I loved the fact that it was driven and enjoyed.
Here’s the 13-second video of that Superbird from Dayton, Tennessee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkoSZwaImSA&ab_channel=recordrelics
I’m sure it’s not the same car from the Cars And Coffee video above in Franklin, TN, as that car has been in Nashville for decades I’m told.
I recall these when they were just around. Once they were picked up for 4-5k. Don’t be surprised to see this happen again
Given so many really crappy cars are priced upwards of $4K, I think I will be VERY surprised.
Automatics? Why…?
Well, maybe when 99% of your driving is just stop light to stoplight and you have enough motor for that, rowing through the gears loses it’s appeal.
We had a blue one where I worked at a Chrysler Plymouth dealer. It could not be sold. It sat in our shop. I washed cars as a kid there and we used the rear wing to dry our cotton towels. It eventually sold, but I cannot recall when. Nobody wanted these cars new. Life is strange. Today, everybody wants one, but no one ever drives their Superbird.
I can tell you that in October 2019 several hundred Aero Warriors were driven hundreds of miles and a few several thousand miles.
I think they are ugly looking.
I love all 5 of the Aero Warrior cars produced. One of my favorite car photos is: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30349118/eye-of-the-beholder-february-2020/
Not smart, but going triple digit on a two-lane blacktop Alabama road after midnight in an Aero Warrior will add years to your life or end it. In 2019 I went from age 67 to age 16 for several days.
The local Plymouth dealer had a white one on their lot back in 1970. My mother was in the market for a new car, and I tried to convince her she needed it. She didn’t agree, but I still remember her comment about it, “It would be good for shopping, I’d never have to worry about trying to find it in a parking lot”.
I like the look, but why do many of them look like the front nose is about to fall off? Many seem to have it misaligned compared to the other front body panels or with huge gaps.
Red, white, and blue, makes you want to stand up and salute.
When I was in college in SW Virginia, a local used car dealer had a twin to the blue car on his lot. It was the height of the first oil shock and he couldn’t give it away at $1100. Hope someone bought it and stored it; for all we know it’s that car.
overpriced… cheaper bought separately
https://bringatrailer.com/search/?s=+Plymouth+Superbird
Parallel parking could be troublesome ! haha
So, Lets be real!! How many of these guys do this simply to brag? Its like, “Look what I’ve got and you can’t afford”.
Just like the ice cream man when I was a kid….
No wonder I’m in therapy, with guys like this :0)
Who knew? Back in the 70’s the dealers couldn’t give these things away. They were the butt end of many jokes. Now who getting the last laugh?
When I moved down to Minneapolis in the spring of 1969, I only saw one of these EVER on the street! It was orange, and cruising around one of the lakes that summer. I was watching it from across the lake, and my first thought was the rear wing was just too over the top. It looked even larger from a distance. You would need access to a heated garage in the winter to hand wash the beast.
I met a couple at a car show in SoCal. They were in there 50s. They claimed they sold there house and cashed in there retirement to purchase a Superbird. They were sitting in front of it. It was a dream of theirs for many years to own one. Now they live in an apartment and tour all the California car shows.Well…..I want one too but, REALLY?
Absolutely really. Live your dreams!
I used to live in Hillsboro, Ohio,not far from Peebles. I can’t believe this very small Mayberry town has been holding these special cars! Very rual small town! There is a guy in Hillsboro sitting on Two 428 Mustang GTs for years! Won’t sell em! U never know what’s in these old barns in these very small towns!
Perfect for the 4th of July, red, white and blue.
Just to stir the pot a bit….With today’s gas situation, how could you ever drive these things more than a block at a time? What kind of mileage do they get on what I presume will have be 93 octane minimum?
If you can afford one (or three!) of these, and the garage to put it in, I don’t think you care much about the price of the gas to power it.
Well, that wasn’t really the issue I was trying to discuss. Obviously, if you’re Bill Gates or Elon Musk gas prices mean as much as a gumball. But for the rest of us, we are destined to have to drive our fossil-fueled hobby cars less and less. Personally, I’ve already cut way down on my weekend cruising and am seriously thinking of thinning the herd and finding a new hobby. The initial buy-in prices of collector cars have already become outlandish due to the speculators and now it’s become unreasonable to enjoy them to their fullest (unless you like just staring at them in your garage).
Long story short: Sutton WVa dealer had one. He said it had 150 miles on it, put on when he drove it around the block after sweeping the showroom out every couple of days. He said that he told Plymouth he would never be able to sell it, he was right, sort of. Sold it in 1980 for $5500.00, a $1000.00 over the sticker price he said and he didn’t understand why the buyer pushed it into a enclosed trailer! The lowest mileage Superbird in existence. Oh well. I saw the car when I was a kid of 7 in 1970 and couldn’t get my pops to stop as we were pulling a camper to the Sutton Dam with my granfparents. Saw it every summer until 1975 when I stopped camping with the family and got a full time job at 13. We had moved to Cleveland, Ohio from Charleston WVA in 1969, so it wasn’t a quick trip for me. I thought about it quite alot and finally went to see about it in 1981, a year to late. I never thought it would have been there that long or I would have went there sooner. I passed on a rusty 440/6 4 speed Superbird for $1000.00 back in 82 ( the owners kid took his girlfriend swimming all the time and they came home naked, their suits tired to the wing to dry ) A nice 68 Hemi Charger body (no motor) and a nice T/A Challenger body (no motor) for $1500.00 for the pair. A niceSublime 440/6 auto Superbird with 14K on the odometer for $I4,000.00 a dollar a mile and he waited ten years to get his price, back in 1989. I kick myself it the ass everyday over these and all the others I’ve passed on or missed over the years.
I grew up not 15 miles from Malcom’s dealership.
It’s remarkable that these winged warriors are so coveted today. When they were new, they were virtually sale-proof.
I remember these being for sale 3-4 years ago separately. Cool cars.
Couldn’t put them in red white & blue order?
Grew up in Aberdeen MD. Guy had a garage behind/next to the local strip club ( Susie place). 3 of us used to go and visit him every so often after school or while driving around in our own cars( 73 Barracuda, 74 Dart Sport, and a chevette). He had a Blue one in his shop had a 426 Hemi. And of all things in the corner of the shop he had in a boxed up crate another 426 Hemi as new as could be.
We cared more about the cars and the motors than the strip club.
I love all 5 of the Aero Warrior cars produced. One of my favorite car photos is: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30349118/eye-of-the-beholder-february-2020/
Not smart, but going triple digit on a two-lane blacktop Alabama road after midnight in an Aero Warrior will add years to your life or end it. In 2019 I went from age 67 to age 16 for several days.
Sounds like a fun ride in ’19! Love the Aero photo too, thanks for sharing, may make that my desktop wallpaper for a season.
!,924 of these cars were made. 1,920 official and 4 tests prototypes. 580 are known titled and road worthy. Maybe another 400 exist that can be brought back to a driver.
i always love to see the wing cars. ive had an obsession with them since they came out. i was 14 when they were out. I have now owned seven of the Winged wonders through the years. i currently own two for the second time in my life. i scrimped and saved what seemed like an eternity to finally land one many years ago. Kudos to those who have them and still find them hidden away. neither of my cars are in the registry. I have a Lemon Twist six pak, console automatic with 55K and a Lime green 4bbl, 4-speed bench seat now. yellow one i have had for 23 years!!!. may be time to let one go as i am getting older and poorer health. but what a great car. thanks for letting me comment here. i eat, sleep and breath iron and have all my life.