It’s weird how some car guys are purists about some stuff and not about others. Like me for example. I don’t know what it is about a stock height Cowl Induction hood on a ’67 or ’68 Camaro, but it annoys the hell out of me. They never came on those cars and so I just don’t like them. When Lingenfelter started building their LTA on the Camaro platform, that was totally fine with me because both were originally F-body cars. But when Petty built these “SuperBirds” using a Dodge Challenger, rather than a Charger platform, my stupid Cowl Induction griping gene kicked in. Real wing cars were not built on the Challenger or Cuda platform.
Sure the wing out back looks cool, but the nose is a little weird. And it never existed in this combo before. I don’t know why that bothers me in this instance. We’re weird like that I guess.
Check out the video slideshow below with tons of photos of this particular Petty built 2013 Superbird, and tell us what you think. Is it good, bad, ugly, awesome, or what?
I like the car except for the tacky side scoop. Needs to be in Petty blue though!
Ummmm, it has ‘Challenger’ on the front end, but ‘RoadRunner’ on the back end….miscommunication somewhere?! Like the nose, but the wing is too ricer….yeah I know the ‘Superbird’ came out first…
Want! (But the wing could be a touch lower . . . it only needs to be high enough to clear the trunk lid and get into clean air . . . just as the original was)
BTW, the Charger Daytona came out before the Superbird. But Petty was never associated with the CD.
Ya know why the wing was so high? So you could open the trunk.
interesting. I think the towel rack is a bit too high, and the front end a bit too pointy – like it’s trying to be a Pontiac – but otherwise kinda cool. The side scoops definitely need to go and I agree there’s an identity confusion problem.
Definitely agree with ED on all points… Some deep dish wheels might of made it look a little better. Take the point out of the nose, new wheels, scale the wing down to proportion, and call it the road runner.
Strikes me as trying way too hard, like the kits to turn a 4th-gen Camaro into a vaguely ’57 Chevy-shaped blob.
Ummm… No !!
That front grill looks like the mouth of a Sturgeon and that’s not a compliment in any way!!
Hate it … nuf said
Did you notice of all the shots, all the angles, there is one missing? A straight on side view. Because from that angle, it is U-G-L-Y. Plain, simple, “tie a prok chop around its neck to get the dogs to play with it” ugly. I do like the tail light treatment, and while the original had decent-but-non-functional side scoops, these do look horribly tacky, like something you’d by at AutoZone or JC Whitney. Shouldn’t be on a car of what I would guess you’d call “this caliber”. I’d rather Chrylser lightened up the basic platform, and just reintroduced the ‘Cuda…the challenger is a pig next to the mustang and Camaro becuase it is too damned heavy.
Petty’s nostalgia car is nice, but this is really how a form-follows-function wing car should be done:
http://www.ebaymotorsblog.com/competing-to-be-the-best-at-the-ultimate-track-car-challenge/chevrolet-march-carlo/
Nice, side exhaust would of been bonus.
Yeah, that would have been cool too, side exhaust.
Then maybe a strobe stripe down the side, snorkel hood, a faux six pack style air cleaner bolted to the intake just for the look under the hood. ……..scratch the strobe stripe, lets go full billboard stripe treatment & maybe some gills in the front fenders. Plus they could have put duals out back also in the valance (I know, rubber bumper cover) with the round chrome slotted red tips, you know with the billboard stripe if done right we could probably get away with a C-strobe stripe over the roof, actually for that matter, can do a fender/hood stripe going up into a indention in the hood(if you put the snorkle far enough forward of course) with a displacement call out or whatever on the car equals 426, be it HP, displacement, wheel base in metric, cubic storage, anything flies asking as we get that nostalgic number. ….. but we don’t want to make it cheesy or anything. Although, we could do all the above & go for a nice day 2 look with barefoot gas pedal, a barefoot dimmer switch cover(just hot glued to the carpet, I know it’s on the stalk now), maybe hike it up in the back 4″ or so, throw some slapper bars on(I know they won’t work but again it’s the look), maybe some 12″ long cherry bombs, red lights down on the ladder bars, hook up the back-up lights to a toggle so everyone knows you want to race. With all that I really think you would have the complete nostalgic experience, probably win some shows & get to talk with some really nice people too!
shades of corvette summer.
Wings to tall and needs to be just slightly taller than the roof line, side scoops need to be removed, Nose is a little pointed and it does have an identity problem. Its pretty cool, could be real cool.
I want one
NO!!!!! Back part of the car look ok. Now the front TO ME is a whole different thing ,looks like the grill under the hood like it will/maybe cause lift and it just looks like it has a sore lip. I just don’t like it some things need to be left alone maybe the SUPERBIRD (old) need left alone.
What a waste of time. Just another way to sell after market crap, on a newer car. Neither of them do the original, any justice or respect. LOSER!
Hate, hate, hate it. Where are the rusty rims and the Joe Dirt Edition?
Finally, MOPAR is going to shake up NASCAR again. They are going to get some dominating cars, get some cars outlawed for too much speed & the inability of the competitors to keep up …….
OK, so it ain’t perfect…but it’s cool! I’d drive the crap out of it! It’s a Dodge, though. Shoulda been a Daytona.
to Wing Cars Rule: I meant the Superbird came out before the ricers…and I do like the Daytona better than the Superbird, but I wouldn’t say no to either one!
I don’t care for it, it just doesn’t look right to me. Maybe it would look better on the new Dodge Charger instead.
same as the original I kinda sneer and smile at the same time
Nothing like the original, aftermarket Sales “strategies” !
I like it’ but it needs to be a darker metallic color or some of the color chrome paint (HotWheels spectraflame paint) with Cragar five spoke 17″ and 18″ chrome rims then have matching interior one shade up or down or the same color’triple black would be hot with red line tires…
Not bad; I agree with most others on the wing, pointy nose and side scoops. Also think that it would make a huge difference to add a bit of rake instead of sitting level; maybe use taller rear tires to achieve rake?
What’s with the cement/sealant oozing around the wing mounts? Kinda tacky…
It’s kinda like the first gold tooth, wow that’s cool maybe two would be twice as nice. In the age where patina is regarded beautiful and women with huge puckered lips are deemed the new sexy. Now this ugliness, I’m checking out man I want Mayberry back.
WTF ??????????
i hear all the bichin cause its not a Charger but it was……there would be a V6 not a V8 and it would be a 4 door so that being said it not to bad
Well I have to say it looks better then the first one.
Knowing Petty it’s probably faster as well.
but plymouths are gone ? or did I miss something
Mopar COPO ?
Nose looks aero, but the whatever you gain w/ the nose is lost on the big wing?
Generally like it. If they hadn’t made hash of the Charger they might have tried one of those.
FUGLY!
If someone wants that car, good for them. I’d have to see it in person, but if the additions are in proportion to the body, I say go for it. At least they call it a “Plymouth”. Chad, I’d say find something important to be concerned about…
YIKES – Someone must love it and breathed life into this monstrosity.
Obviously this guy hasn’t heard the saying – sometimes less is more or enough already!
I especially like the big glop of black snot – appears to be holding the rear wing/towel rack.
Hopefully its a limited edition – REAL limited.
Just wrong
I like it. The front end could be more straight across when it comes to a point like the original Super Bird’s and Daytona Chargers. What am I doing here. I’m a Pontiac Guy.LOL!
think CHAD would comment it was weird if they build it off a charger that IS a 4 door
NO
Front end looks more like a mid 70’s vette than anything else