Funny thing is, while $20K difference is some people’s entire budget (like me LOL), on a car like this we’re only talking about a 10% difference between the owner and appraiser. Not enough to get upset over in my book.

I couldn't be happier to see the car prices starting to take a dive again.

Super glad to hear this, for too long guys think their car is worth a million dollars after thry bought it for 2500 in the 80s. And they wonder why younger generations went to JDM cars so hard

I graduated from HS in 1980. Back then you could buy that car for less than $20K. But $20K was a pretty good pile of $$$ then. When I started driving there were a lot of muscle cars around with the big block V-8s and people didn't want them because of the recent gas embargo by OPEC. So the high school kids drove them and burned them up. The parking lot of my HS was full of Chevelle's, Chargers, Firebirds, Chargers, RoadRunners etc... I wish I'd bought a dozen of those cars and put them in storage.

The reason why they were so hard to get rid of when they were new was the insurance companies were charging ridiculous premiums to insure them. of course some of it was justified because early on any frontal collision would damage the nose which was essentially hand made and expensive to replace. Along with that and they feared anyone buying one would either race it on the track or the street.

I had this same color Superbird in 1975. Bought it used for $1,800. Nobody wanted one then. Sure wish I still had it!

These things are gonna' go nowhere but down. The entire muscle car hobby is aging out. I'm 58 and I'm at the younger end of the hobby. I've owned Superbirds, Daytonas, a Hemi Charger, a Shaker Hood 440 'Cuda, quite a lot of muscle Mopars. Same thing is going to happen to these as happened to big dog classic prewar cars - the hobby aged out of them. When I was a teenager, I drove Road Runners and 'Cudas to my job restoring Pierce-Arrows, Packards, Cords, and a host of other major cars for a local very wealthy collector who had 72 cars. I now own a '29 Packard Club Sedan with all its original paperwork and a very interesting history, it was a ground-up restoration on a 29,000 mile car 20 years ago, and I paid less for it than it would have cost back in the early 1980s. I guarantee, it cost three times what I paid for it to restore it in 1999/2000. I'm still heavily involved in old Mopar restorations, I caution people all the time, buy these cars with your heart, not your head, because in the next decade, they are going to nose dive in value - the average muscle car enthusiast is 65-75 years old. In ten years, they're not going to be that worried about the cars, they're going to be more concerned about their kidneys functioning.

A presale valuation is a highly educated guess. The value is what someone will actually pay on a given day and both gentlemen agree on that. Regardless of the price its a great looking car and I'm sure is a blast to drive.

Interesting to hear what they look at in the appraisal at Hagerty. Nicely restored by Julius.

Mopars are getting a bit of a market correction. They were sky high for so long. My buddy has a one of one factory Daytona Modtop. The only modtop Daytona made and it was an SE car as well. A very hard car to appraise as there is nothing to compare it to.

Totally Insane pricing on these. All of them matter of fact really. I wish I would've kept all those muscle cars I had back then.

I bought a wrecked 440 six pack Roadrunner when I was 17 in 78. I forget how much I paid, but it was the kind of money a 17 year old working in a garage would have. It was hit hard in the back, but with what I know now it was fixable. I stripped it for parts for a roadrunner I had that was a 383 car to build a clone. I scrapped what was left of the original 440 six pack car with the title. Later on I sold the clone I built to buy a 10 wheel dump truck. If you think that was bad, around the same time my buddy bought a Yenko 427 Nova with a blown up engine. We didn't even know what a Yenko was then. I remember him tearing off the Yenko decals because he didn't like them. Long story short, it ended up in his barn that then leaked in it for like 15 years or so. Then he came around and was telling us some "nut" gave him 3,000 for that old rusted out nova in his barn. A few months later he got educated and to this day if someone brings it up he leaves and goes home without saying a word

back in the late 70's in our neighborhood there were a couple of red/orange superbirds, one of which was the poorer of the 2, owned by someone who lived on "the wrong side of the tracks". rumor was it had a 340 with an automatic, which of course makes no sense from a factory perspective. up until several years ago, I held out the possibility that there may have been a one off created as some kind of exception at the factory for one reason or another. given who owned it and where, it's possible someone could have replaced the 440 with a 340 for whatever reason. the only thing I regret is not tracking the guy down and making him an offer. even in beat up shape, that thing turned heads and would have been a blast to drive.

When it comes to these cars, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I just want my 66 Mustang back.

My dad used to drive one of these to work in the late "70s...He bought it as a winter beater......It had a trailer hitch on it and he would pull me and my friends behind it in the snow with a rope.😭😭😭..It was just a regular 440,4bbl,automatic,black bench seat....It was orange.He junked it out after the frame rails got pretty thin....He sold the engine and tranny to some guy who put them in a "race car".My dad still has the hood hanging on his garage wall to this day and the A pillar chrome laying around somewhere...Good vid.👍👍👍

Aussie here.... that's a cool looking car. It reminds me of the sort of Hot Wheels vehicle I would have been stoked to receive as a kid.

Thanks for bringing back some memories. A friend of mine had a 4-speed Hemi Superbird back in high school. He did all of the stupid teenager stuff to it back then that would have reduced the value. It's nice seeing you go over this car and seeing all of the parts of it as I remember them.

That restoration for a superbird having original engine block is top notch....period.

In 1970 when I was 11 years old the local dealer had 2 of these on the lot. One was Yellow and the other one was Brownish like color. I was blown away with the rear wing and I asked my father if we could stop by and look at it. My father looks at me like I was crazy and says "I wouldn't be caught dead in that car". Needless to say we didn't stop and check them out! About 12 years later we had moved to Arizona and my Uncle came down for the Barret Jackson auction. Back then it was in a parking lot and 1\20th of todays "experience". The rage back then was the Shelby 427 Cobra roadster. While walking into the auction there was 2 entering the auction. The side pipes were making the coolest lump-de lump noise and I said to my father "You should buy one of these cars and sit on it for a year, you would make a pretty profit from the sale. He looks at me and says " I wouldn't give $2,500 for that piece of....." I responded that the car was appreciating about $10,000 PER MONTH!! Went back the next year and sure enough the same cars were bringing $250,000 or $70,000 more than the previous year. Back then a Mercedes Gullwing was $90,000, Jag XKE Convertibles were $25,000, 1963 Split window Vettes were $15,000. My uncle was a Lagonda collector and had 2. One was pulled from a field in Singapore. He used to race it on Sundays around the local town. One was a racer and the other was a sedan. To say Cars have been a huge influence would be an understatement.

I respect the cars and owners that have went all the way and done a full nut and bolt restoration with all the correct everything with factory markings and all that so it looks like it just came from the factory. Having said that, in my opinion doing all that makes the car undriveable as it’s more of an expensive decoration than a car. Those cars were meant to be bought by everyday people to have fun with. I’d rather have a non numbers matching car that still looks good but not too good that you’re not afraid to enjoy it.

I thought the appraiser was spot on. It's a beautiful car. The owner should be proud of having a beauty like this in his garage. 😎

Beautiful car. I have always loved these winged cars.

I was in the navy stationed in Charleston, S.C., when I saw my first 1970 Superbird (brand new) sitting on a Plymouth dealer's lot. I was driving a stripped down 1969 Dodge Dart 340 Swinger I had bought in July of 1969 for $2,700. As I recall, the Superbird had a window sticker of around $4,500 (do not recall engine option and transmission). No way could I have afforded a car like that on my E-5 navy pay. But if I could have drove that car off the lot, I think I would have felt like king of Rt. 52 and I-26 (where I did a lot of street racing with my 340 Swinger). I was amazed at how the super cars were getting more and more power each year, spoilers, graphics, etc. I thought it was going to go on and on. Wrong! Then in 1971 Ford and GM started dropping engine compression, retarding camshaft and ignition timing, etc. (Mopar got in another year [1971] before they started cutting back performance. But as luck would have it, I had no idea we would have such powerful street cars like we have today.

Glad to have a long burning question answered about the horn. Thank you.

Appraisal means nothing. Its worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay for it

This guy has a good collection going on.

Nailed it CC. Cool car, and a driver.

Thanks. Super informative. Would absolutely love to own a Plymouth Superbird!

I'd love to visit that garage!

My 71 Plymouth Cuda 340 was all original with all the options. The little old guy who ordered it wanted columb shift and bench seats!

Seeing the pop up about the Superbird Daytona club, I know who started it and recall seeing their driveway loaded with Superbirds and a Daytona in their garage (about a mile from where I live). Today they don't have as many as they once did back in the 80's.

My first new car was a 69-383. When they brought out the Superbird in 70, god did I want one those. Would still love to own either of them today. Can you grasp that I was driving the wheels of the thing 54 years ago, never for a moment thinking that I was driving a future classic. What a great era 68/70 was and to expedience it as a mad as brush 21 year old. Would love to revisit the States/Canada and rattle one of those down the road once again.

Good show and information

Gorgeous Superbird, he got you on a couple minor technical issues but personally I love it. Drive the wheels off it, it is perfect like it is.

I absolutely love Superbirds!!! It's my #2 all time favorite Mopar!!! My #1 is the 69 Dodge Charger Daytona!!! I would be beyond over the moon to get either one though!!!! They are just a sweet sight!!!!

We need to see more of these videos

Had a chance to buy an identical Superbird in 1985 for $10k! Car was in Aragon ,Ga. and was sitting off the side of a garage with no cover with about 7700 actual miles. All it need was a repaint.I couldnt raise the money at the time.Found out about 2 yrs. later Tim Wellborn had bought the car and restored it.Coulda , woulda, shoulda!

Back in 1978, when i was thirteen, a dude took me for some doughnuts in a Superbird...He really loved that car and since i was on break...why not....We did doughnuts on a dirt lot! I didn't think much of it them but now? wow! what an experience!..I told him it reminded me of the batmobile...Little did i Know....Hell, i was 13 for gaudsake! (Outside Los Aguirre's Mexican Rest. South Lake Tahoe, circa 1978)

Its not just that. The main reason they were high on insurance is because they were the 1st production car to hit 200 mph. The insurance companies knew this. Thats why insurance is not cheap on theses gems of the past. Back in the day they were cheap to buy but the insurance was too high. The dealer blamed it on the looks of the car but thats not true. Most people would love too own this car. I know i would. There was also a special edition Camaro in 69. It had alot of hp. Very expensive for insurance. But if i could afford it i would put in in storage because it is a gem. 😮

Have always liked the High Wing cars! 👍👍

I keep looking at that F40 stowed away🤗

The car is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. The valuation might not be what the owner thought it would be, but I'm guessing he can still get the 225K number.

We had the 70 Super B, with pistol grip Shift, 383 Mangum and the hood scoops for induction.....Awesome car.....

The appraiser mentioned Mopar taxicabs...when you consider what you are getting for your money with this Superbird, a 4-door 1970 Coronet with a 440 actually looks mighty attractive. (A Slant would be even less outlay...probably under $10K for a driver quality machine.)

I always thought the Superbirds had a non-adjustable wing. That wing looked like it had the lock hole like a Daytona. Sweet ride. I'm mighty jealous.

Not only do we need to see more of these videos, we need to see more of these cars, and we need to see the glory of our yesteryear restored. EV vehicles are going to take over the internal combustion engine, and these beautiful examples will be even rarer to see and hear . Keep up the great work

What a NEATO car - and as the owner mentioned - they had trouble selling them back when new. Nice color - and the owner seems to have a nice usable car on his hands - lucky guy and great to see his smile he get from his car. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA (HA - where a SUPERBIRD would not fit in the average suburban carparking space - HA).

This is amazing. Great cars, and I love the first one. (Sorry I can’t name them, although names are mentioned, I don’t have that much knowledge on cars.)

Chris, you have an awesome car! She is a head turner for sure!

Amazing car !!

Well done my friend very beautiful

You have a fantastic car! She certainly attracts attention!

Beautiful car

Now I am going to look up this Julius fella.

Those are real classics not many cars nowadays will ever appreciate in value like the Superbird and other classic cars of that time those were real muscle cars💪

I distinctly remember a beige Superbird at local Concord MA dealership back in the day so I dunno about that "only" colors bit. I told the dealer I would be back in 2 years to buy it if they didn't move it -dealer dude said a lot of looks zero buyers, it wasn't going anywhere. A few dealers cut 'em up to make sell-able Belvederes out of them. I was 17. I ended up getting the 'Cuda instead, lol. 👀

I love the Superbird! I would want a 4 speed with a 440 6 pack, though not an automatic.

That’s a beautiful car. I wouldn’t own a car like that but hopefully someone will give this gentleman $200,000 for it. (:

200,00 is where they were 20yrs ago. It's good to see the prices on the way down. A convertible 1970 with a hemi 4spd used to be 55,000, now 135,000 to 1.? Million.

My dream car!

I always enjoy this series, in particular for the variety of vehicles featured. Out of curiosity, how hard is it to determine that a fender tag such as this one is truly original and not a reproduction?

I don't know that I would want a Superbird or Daytona. But I would definitely like to have a Mopar from that era

As my Grandpa use to tell me "boy, beauty is in the eye of the beer holder". And I'm drinkin' beer right now and she's a beautiful girl! Love that car.

He’s still got a fantastic car no matter what the price. It’ll always be an investment.

What trips me out the most? I have that exact same Kuhl shirt Colin is wearing.

Number 2 condition?!?!If the scale goes from 1-5, which is generally what I see in price guides, how can this not be a 1? If this is a 2, then what’s a 3,4,5? For this car to be this perfect and restored from reputable source, I’m really struggling to see how we can have only 5 number system. My cars wouldn’t make 5th condition

Beautiful car, and the same colour as Pikachu. I want one

Why wouldn’t the super birds in particular not have the secondary vin on the radiator support? It’s a roadrunner as you know and the rad supports we’re not altered during conversion. This leads me to believe that this front rad support was replaced. Usually I’d move the vin over from the old support but they didn’t feel the need to or were not able to.

I have seen these sitting on the dealership lots unsold in 1971. I thought they looked awesome, but I was 16 years old at the time.

I like the 440 4 barrel. You could beat on that drive train all day and hurt it. I've seen high school kids do it. Twas a new car though. Cool car.

Nice guy. It's always hard hearing the bad news that your car or whatever isn't worth what you think it is in the current market. It seems like the market is dropping on quite a few non necessities, the common mistake is chasing the market from what it used to be.

At 16 years old I took my Drivers Lessons (1972) in an Orange 70 Superbird 440 4 bbl Automatic with bucket seats, it was a promo car for Ringers Auto School in Saugus MA - car was really ratty and ran crappy until the the revs were up and the 4 bbl opened lol

FYI...my 70 Roadrunner has the secondary VIN stamped on the core support facing the engine, not on the flat side...

I think it is still a really nice car !!!

I found two 1970s dodge hemi engines... I was supposed to get a finders bonus....but you know how that story goes...NOW I know how to play the game a lot better...

Their rare cars, and having one in this kind of condition, original engine, beautifully restored, with no silly modifications. In the right dealership, with the right customer, $240k is possible. as the car is in almost perfect condition, and its not easy to obtain one in such good condition. Forget the auction prices, and current market value, if a customer wants a car in this kind of condition, they may well step up to the $240k valuation.

I have a collector car also. Not that old but not many made, a 1990 1LE-IROC-Z , no air or radio, manual windows and door locks. Has an alum driveshaft from the factory. With 6.3 miles on the od.

Great car, I’ll take it!

If you get two guys bidding and both really want that car, you will hit your number. There are people out there with crazy money. Price isn't an object.

I Had a 1970 Dodge Coronet 500 , it's was actually my second one the first was a 1970 Coronet 440. I loved the 500 with its factory Bucket seats and console shift. It looked exactly the same as this super bird. They were all the same Unibody cars that were built like tanks compared to the junk today , so well that I was sitting at a light when a person That had a few too many rear ended me!! He hit me so hard I was pushed 15' forward. When I got out to look all I saw was how messed up his Newer 1979 Buick was destroyed!!! Now I had Cragars 50 on the back because of the air shocks so the tires would clear, his heavy chrome bumper went under my bumper my bumper went through his radiator and caught the water pump, this then lifted his engine off the Mounts!! I didn't see that back of my car yet I was still walking back. But I can say I saw RED ! I wanted to catch a charge I was sure my car was destroyed!!! But nope that unibody held up, all he did to me was break an exhaust hanger and put a 1/4" hole in the gas tank . When the cops got there they didn't believe I took that hit by myself, they swore one of us was protecting a third driver's vehicle in the middle . Fortunately a family was sitting on their porch that saw everything! I was never in trouble since I was at the front of the wreck. But the guy who did hit me tried to say I backed up with enough force to destroy his car lol I was 15' past the stop line. This guy had way to many but he didn't get in any trouble for it because back in the 80s you didn't wear a seatbelt and open containers were legal, they rarely arrested people for being under the influence. I had some epoxy in the trunk I put a temporary patch on the Tank and went home after the fire department said I wasn't leaking fuel anymore. They would have Towed it if I didn't fix the leak. I will never forget that day . The frame was not tweaked in any way . Even my 2012 Ram 2509 wouldn't hold up like that . And it's got a full frame to hold the enormous Cummins Diesel in it. I wish I could find another 1970 Coronet 500 it's one year front bumper made it look aggressive like 2 eyes staring you down! Can you imagine putting a Cummins in this car? Not a stock Cummins but a fully deleted with as much of a Tune that it could handle. The delete would be legal since they go by the year of the Vehicle, emissions were really simple back then a charcoal canister and a simple EGR easy to delete. It might need the Unibody to be tied together so that torque doesn't twist the old dodge into a pretzel stick. Sorry for the long comment I really Miss that car. I'm looking but can't find a good stock Coronet that's not rotted out. One day I hope. Oh yeah the only issue with these cars and any Mopar was the front suspension they just didn't hold up then or today. One would think Mopar would have figured this out after all this time! Makes you wonder if they still have the same engineer designing the front ends ? Come on Dodge there was no excuse for the Death Wobble in your trucks .

Classic cars are like fine art, you're not paying for the paint, you're paying for the legacy

Motortrend just posted a video from Mecum Kissimmee 2023 of a '70 Superbird 440 6 barrel 4 speed that sold for $170k. When I watched this a few days ago, my guess on value was around $150k and I think that's a much more reasonable figure. Maybe a few years ago it would have gone over $200k, but I think a lot of the muscle car high water marks are starting to recede.

I wish I still had my old mopars. I was in my teens I'm 34 now when those cars could still be bought for a reasonable price. My 68 charger from the original owners father, sticker price 3300 dollars is what he sold it to me. My 67 273 barracuda fastback automatic 2000, my 68 dart gts original 350 4 speed car (383 auto swap) was 3k from mopar mike. now their so out of touch. I've always wanted a winged warrior.

Hey the owner is cute as heck with or without the roadrunner !!!

Like Chris said the value is in the eye of the beholder. I would have guessed its worth at least $350,000 as the restoration is top notch and the paint is beautiful. If you drove that car you I bet you would agree. Great show nonetheless.

In 1970 I drove a car exactly like that one at a car lot in Wausau Wisconsin, and it could be the same car. I almost traded my 1969 Super Bee on it but just couldn't get past the fact that it had the 727 instead of the 4-speed like my Bee. I passed on it and regretted it when I bought a '68 GTX with 727 a few years later. So had a '69 Bee, '68 GTX and '73 Challenger Super Stock at the same time, but still know that I should have snagged that Bird when I had the chance.

I think it is a very good driver for 200 to 250 I wouldn’t mind a 440 auto Can cruise all day in that one 👍👍

What is the little red car stored beneath the blue Viper?

The windscreen has an SABS (South African Bureau Of Standards) mark on it so it could be a PG Glass window in which case it is correct for the superbird?

Funny thing, when I was young and foolish we used to go to NY state from Pa to drink because the drinking age in NY was 18 at the time and 21 in Pa. We would drive past this little Dodge dealer in the town of Westfield NY (pop 4500 ) and they had 3 of these things on their lot. They sat there for 2-3 years unsold until one day they were all gone. If I had known then what I know now I would have bought all 3 and put them away for posterity....

The six barrel 440 was more powerful, but weren’t they very hard to keep tuned and balanced? Wouldn’t the single four make a far more enjoyable non-race, show car because it was so much easier to start and keep tuned?

Regardless of the price, it is a nice car.

That's an awesome car. I'd love to buy one but I only use cars for toting bodies and grocery runs.

I have seen actual survivor examples, that said, I think the restorations tend to be over done. That car has a lot of body color paint in places where there are normally black parts and the factory paint shop thought about body color paint as the gun passed by that area. The most recent one I saw was a survivor because it was a grocery getter so yup, they are out there and in the strangest of places.

Although my dad still has his 1971 442, his brothers and his buddies have all been kicking themselves since the early 2000's when these car values shot up and they were left with only photos of their muscle cars after tearing them up, letting them rust out, and getting rid of them during the late 70's and early 80's. Imo, no chance of these mass produced hellcats, 392's, etc ever seeing that type of resurgence happening again to them in the future giving that younger generations are caring less and less about cool cars.

I honestly like the plymouth superbird

There are Car Guys who work on cars and Check Book writers like this guy.

About time these things start tanking in value maybe I’ll actually be able to afford one one day

Sure sounds good.

I was up close to one exactly like this one. Color and engine were the same too. It was way back in the 80's. Unrestored.