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Copart Cadaver: A 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird That Burned To The Ground!!! But What Else Happened To It?


Copart Cadaver: A 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird That Burned To The Ground!!! But What Else Happened To It?

Holy crap! You don’t see this kind of thing very often, but what a sad site it is. Seeing a 1970 Plymouth Superbird in person is always a treat, because there just aren’t that many of them. But to see one in this condition is heartbreaking. Up for auction at Copart, this poor bird got barbecued and nobody even passed the sauce. The listing shows the car has a Junk Title, meaning it is not even registerable as a salvage title, although I’m not certain of the laws in Illinois where it is located. The price is currently $4,600 but the reserve is not met and State Farm and Copart have the estimated value at $45,000. $45,000! Wow, maybe it is worth that, I don’t know. But it is burned bad, that is for sure.

There are a bunch of photos below, but here is what I’m guessing based on the photos below. There is a bunch of coals on the roof and hood of this thing, and they appear to be wood. And when you look at the overall condition of the body, the quarter panels, doors, and fenders appear to be way straighter than they should be if the fire inside was hot enough to make the roof collapse. So what I think happened was that this car was in a building that caught fire and that part of the building fell in on the roof of the car. I also think the car’s trunk was open becuase of the damage it appears to have sustained as well. Now, the cause of the fire may have been the car, I have no idea, but regardless I believe that the majority of the roof damage and hood damage was caused by the roof of the building, or other structural members, falling on it.

I’ve seen cars that burned to the ground before, in very hot fires, and the body panels are very often distorted and misshapen badly from the heat. These photos certainly don’t show the level of warpage and such that I would expect from a fire that hot. And because there is still a lot of structure left of the seats and such I doubt the fire inside the car was hot enough to cause that kind of roof damage. I don’t know, and I don’t know that anyone will be able to find out without buying this one, but if one of you does, please let us know!

According to the listing it is an automatic car, but there is no mention of the engine so I don’t know if it is a 440 car or a Hemi car. We may never know.

Check out the photos below, and CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE LISTING ON COPART AND BID! 

 


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7 thoughts on “Copart Cadaver: A 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird That Burned To The Ground!!! But What Else Happened To It?

  1. Steve Akker

    Very sad to see this happen to such a rare collectable , but , junk is junk , and there doesn’t look to be much salvagable on this one . Nothing lasts forever and this one is gone .

  2. david kluttz

    Give it about five years and that baby will rise like the Phoenix and be for sale somewhere in all its glory another unsuspecting buyer will call all his pals hey I got a Superbird! I wish someone would sell one of the fakes to a federal Judge and get what they deserve but the thing is that everyone Wants it to be true on numbers cars so you have to keep the scam going or the guy that calls it out is the loser–hundreds if not thousands of fake numbers cars in the market–once sold as legit and passed around they gain that new cred–since they are passed around so much sellers don’t fear jail–they can play dumb I guess

    Ah for the old days where we drove the crap out of them because they were fun toys not investment instruments

  3. david kluttz

    Give it about five years and that baby will rise like the Phoenix and be for sale somewhere in all its glory another unsuspecting buyer will call all his pals hey I got a Superbird! I wish someone would sell one of the fakes to a federal Judge and get what they deserve but the thing is that everyone Wants it to be true on numbers cars so you have to keep the scam going or the guy that calls it out is the loser–hundreds if not thousands of fake numbers cars in the market–once sold as legit and passed around they gain that new cred–since they are passed around so much sellers don’t fear jail–they can play dumb I guess

    Ah for the old days where we drove the crap out of them because they were fun toys not investment instruments
    OR….maybe it was one of those fakers and was torched to stop the merry go round??? and cash out?? Ummm

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