1970 Plymouth Superbird

[THarrison351]

I'm in the process of cleaning out my hobby/storage room. I've decided to document and take pictures of all my old built models. This isn't the oldest, but it was built about thirty years ago I can tell because it was in my boys room on a shelf near his crib and there was a bunch of baby powder dust on the inside. It hasn't seen the light of day for about fifteen years. It was totally in pieces when I unwrapped from it's cocoon. The only thing I couldn't find was a front turn signal lens. I attempted to make this look like burnt orange. I painted it with Testors paints, Competition Orange covered in some metallic red I think. A little darker than stock, but not bad. It also was sprayed with clear enamel and like every car of mine that was painted with clear enamel from that time, it yellowed with age. It needs the Road Runner Superbird decals to complete it. I don't think anyone was making them back then.

Had know clue what the bottom of a restored unibody car should have looked like at the time

[michelle]

nice restoration 

[espo]

Looks great, especially for its age.  

[Matt T.]

Great job! Looks good in red; don’t often see that color on these. I like it 

[Classicgas]

Speedway  Decals makes Superbird markings.

[THarrison351]

Thanks everyone. It has aged well. Better than some of the others. I'll be posting more soon.

13 minutes ago, Classicgas said:

Speedway  Decals makes Superbird markings.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into their website. 

[cobraman]

Looks good and I like the color.

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[Classicgas]

On 6/9/2020 at 4:46 PM, THarrison351 said:

Thanks everyone. It has aged well. Better than some of the others. I'll be posting more soon.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into their website. 

You probably won't see them on there. Click contact us.

[Dragonhawk1066]

Looks great! That's actually a pretty sharp color!

[slusher]

14 hours ago, Dragonhawk1066 said:

Looks great! That's actually a pretty sharp color!

I totally agree!

[Geno]

Tim, that looks great, I got my Superbird decals from Kieth Marks, they are very nicely done.

 

[jchrisf]

These are the coolest looking old cars.  It's funny, I never saw one until I got into modeling a couple years ago.  The front end is weird and the wing is crazy but together they look so cool.  I need to research this car.