OK, heres the skinny on the car!
Yes it was on the first part of the TLB movie they show this car racing down the track.
Anyway I think Mopar gave Big Willie 3 of these cars, the "King, Queen, and this one the Prince or Duke.
The Queen one got wrecked so they put all the parts on this one for some reason, its a 440 4 barrel car.
Anyway these guys from Kentucky that are diehard Mopar fans and I mean DIEHARD, are truck drivers and go all over the USA. Im not going to mention names places or their shop or junkyard for their privacy reasons.
Anyway I hear they bought this car for $20,000 and pulled it out of Willie's backyard.
I saw the car at shows around here and the pic is one that I took.
Well after awhile I saw it on Ebay and followed the auction and it went for around $200,000.
Then I saw it in Hotrod at a old car reunion.
During the auction there was a link to a Mopar forum and then someone had an old magizine artical all about the 3 Superbirds and a write up about Willie. This was my 5 minutes anywhere near fame!!!
Well I thought that was my only 5 minutes, One time in the mid 80s at the Indy 500, I ran smack face to face into David hasselhoff and he grabbed me by the shoulders and...
set me aside and said "Sorry kid you all right" and I just froze, and of corse my friends were nowwhere around to see it!!!
What, what did you think happened you dirty minded bast***** :o
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