populuxe

In honor of Super Tuesday, I thought I would write about one super amazing muscle car, the Plymouth Road Runner Superbird. I bet you didn't know I come from a family of gearheads. Yes I do. My dad and brother are racers. All my life my dad and brother have been buying and restoring hot rods, muscle cars and sports cars. My dad has owned a Corvette for each decade from the 1960's to the present. I wish he still had all those Vettes and so does he. He'd be a rich man.

My dad, brother and I watched hours and hours of the Barrett-Jackson Car Auction on the Speed Channel. They feature the best of the best collector cars out there. One car that caught my eye was the Plymouth Road Runner Superbird. In 1970, Plymouth came out with this badass and bizarre muscle car. It was aerodynamically designed with a smoothed out front nosecone, long sleek body and an enormous rear wing spoiler. It was also equipped with a 426 Hemi engine. My dad and brother say "Hemi's rock! Har Har!". There were only 135 models made which makes this car ultra rare.

This Superbird sold on the Barrett-Jackson auction for $300,000. Wow!

The Plymouth Superbird, is it super cool or super ridiculous? What do you think?