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Friday, January 8, 2016

Oh no... oh dear god no... it's hideous! My eyes! They burn! The only known Mod Top Daytona Chrysler built.


http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/01/02/four-links-roy-lunn-mod-top-daytona-vintage-snowplows-customized-race-transporters/   via  http://www.mooresmopars.com/modtop112.html

 One of 3 documented vinyl top Daytonas, and the only Mod Top, during the restoration it was determined conclusively that it was a design team "one of" creation built during the summer of 1969 while the vehicle was converted from an R/ T Charger into a Daytona Charger at Creative Industries.

It is speculated this was done for a show of some type but that has yet to be confirmed, another Daytona with a vinyl top was prepped for a show and that is fully documented. This particular car was sold new in British Columbia Canada at Plimley Dodge with the top installed when it arrived which has been confirmed.



During the restoration Mod Top material was found behind window clips and in places it could only have been placed when the car was being converted into a Daytona.

Further discussions with a design team employee conclusively confirmed that this is Chrysler Built-during the summer of 1969 Mod Top proto type with what most think is the ugliest flowered top pattern Chrysler ever built.


Duncan Mounsey, the staff engineer who created the legendary Mod Top material for the Dodge Design Team during the summer of 1969 in 4 unique colors and just before shipping it he cut 4 small samples off each colored roll and then shipped the 4 rolls of Mod Top material directly to Chrysler.

Mopar Collector's Guide magazine ran aticle on the car in Feb and March 2011.
The car is an SE Daytona one of 14 built with black interior and a white wing.

http://www.mooresmopars.com/modtop112.html

in the small world of Spirit of 76 decal cars, this stayed obscure far longer than any other vehicle, the Ford truck with the Bicentennial Option group


Friday, December 18, 2015

The Manic GT was built by Bombardier in Canada between 1969 and 1971. The car used Renault 8 mechanicals



From what I can figure out, the French Canadians used a French car's mechanicals (Renault), but a new fiberglass body. The payments for the mechanicals never made it to Renault, so they stopped sending parts and that ended everything. About 60 were made


Wednesday, December 16, 2015

one Kansas dealership kept a ’Bird until 1989, selling the previously untitled car with 208 miles on the odometer, the next investor only added 463, now it's getting cashed in with only 671 miles


Delivered new to Sampson Motors in Junction City, Kansas, in December of 1969, and as we all know, no one could sell them, so in March of 1970 it was dealer transferred 90 miles away to Nemaha Motors in Seneca, Kansas.

440, 727, 3.55 gears

The Superbird’s odometer reads just 671 miles, and four-plus decades of indoor storage has been kind to the car. The original paint still carries a high gloss, and the original interior looks to be in showroom-fresh condition. The rear seat belts are still wrapped in plastic, and the factory-provided “Starting Tips” hang tag is even part of the sale.

This may be the best-preserved and most original Plymouth Superbird

And it's coming to auction https://www.mecum.com/collection.cfm?auctionID=FL0116&groupID=10264&page=1  via  http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/12/14/untitled-until-1989-a-671-mile-superbird-heads-to-auction/

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