In October, 1979 a magazine called "Car Collector" printed an extremely well-written and well-researched, 6-page article with info from then Daytona & Superbird Association President Jim Radke, and Daytona-Superbird Auto Club founders Monroe and Doug Schellinger. They referenced substantial interview work with Chrysler Corporation's aerodynamics experts Gary Tomburg and John Vaughn.
I have a copy of that article that was scanned in and emailed to me and I would love to make it available online. It is, however, a PDF in somewhat average quality buy 1,675 KB and too big to post.
Anyone that emails me taxspeaker@gmail I will send you a copy, or if someone knows how to make it available as a clicked link, it would be great for all of us.
The opening line of the article is "These Winged Warriors have the necessary credentials to become one of the collector cars of the future."
Bob
Hello Bob,
I can probably run it through compression software, and post here for everyone to see.
arrow360@cs.com
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I had this magazine from 1979 David Plias is actually Dave Patik
When my dad bought our Superbird in 1972, he had read a magazine article (Esquire?) talking about some late model used car bets that would have collector potential. That was a catalyst for him eventually buying a winged car. It definitely put the cars on his radar screen. Once he bought the Bird, he sold all his antique cars and never looked back.
Gary Tomburg, where did that guy come from? A Swedish cousin of Gary Romberg?
I think it was Motor Trend 1972-1974 period that had a chart of predictions of what to buy. Nice write up too that predicted "someone will be building Superbird wings and noses out of fiberglass like Auburn Speedsters were being reproduced."
I've done all right, but perhaps we all should have looked at Ferrari Cal Spyders if we were all that smart.
Also in that 1979 magazine
thanks for sharing this information / artical ! awesome stuff :cheers: :2thumbs:
think there was a value prediction on the wing cars in mopar muscle nothing like the above artical , just price predictions of mopars etc maybe late 88 early 89 magazine , cant check given all my mopar mags / collections away years ago
Thanks for sharing! Great reading material! :cheers: