Superbird Various Production Totals
This page is under construction.
Please note, that, no matter how many show signs or internet posts you see, or how many "experts" comment on the exact number of Superbirds built, NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY BECAUSE THE RECORDS ARE INCOMPLETE!!!
All we can do is make educated guesses based upon documents and statistical analysis as to how many of these unusual cars were built.
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1925
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2543
1850 Ken R. Noffsinger and Greg Kwiatkowski have come into possession of a large number of internal documents and have been good enough to post them to the web. One of those documents is a regional/sub-regional, USA, shipping list for Superbirds. It gives the intended approximate destinations for 1850 Superbirds. This document is dated prior to the completion of all Superbirds so it doesn't offer evidence of a maximum production number. It does, however, offer evidence for a minimum number of 1850.
To see this document please go to the Winged Warriors site:
http://aerowarriors.com/cda/cda_110669.html Edit Text
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The Last Page of the NASCAR Serial Number List Edit Picture1920This is number of entries in the NASCAR Serial number list. As we all know there are many discrepancies in this list.
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1923
A Hot Rod Magazine interview with Gary Romberg brought forth the following information.
"Q: With federal front bumper regulation growing tighter every year, was there anyconsideration given to putting proper bumpers on the noses of the G-Series wing cars?A: It all depended on NASCAR. If NASCAR hadn't killed the program via rules changes, you can bet we would have come up with whatever crash protection the feds required as long as it kept us on the race track. You have to remember, under the 1970 rules, we only had to offer one production version of the wing car for every two dealerships in the country. That's why there were 1,923 SuperBirds built, there were 3,846 Plymouth dealers nation wide. As for certain states, which could enforce their own vehicle safety codes if they saw fit, if whatever front bumper we came up with...or didn't, wasn't acceptable to those states, we would have accepted that and not sold wing cars in those states." To read the entire article please go to:
http://www.hotrod.com/web/113_0508_wing/index.html Edit Text
1925
Total number of VINs encompassed by the runs of VINs assigned to Superbirds. This number does not include any of the known cars that fall between the runs. Edit Text
1935
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1942
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2500
This is the number of VONs assigned to the Superbird project as defined by "NASCAR MASTER #1" document. J97000 through J99499, or 2500 units, are defined in the "Special Order No." box. We all know that Plymouth did not use all the assigned VONs.
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To see this document please go to the Winged Warriors site:
http://aerowarriors.com/cda/cda_110669.html Edit Text
SBNASCARlistscansforweblastpage.jpg.jpg
The Last Page of the NASCAR Serial Number List Edit Picture1920This is number of entries in the NASCAR Serial number list. As we all know there are many discrepancies in this list.
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1923
A Hot Rod Magazine interview with Gary Romberg brought forth the following information.
"Q: With federal front bumper regulation growing tighter every year, was there anyconsideration given to putting proper bumpers on the noses of the G-Series wing cars?A: It all depended on NASCAR. If NASCAR hadn't killed the program via rules changes, you can bet we would have come up with whatever crash protection the feds required as long as it kept us on the race track. You have to remember, under the 1970 rules, we only had to offer one production version of the wing car for every two dealerships in the country. That's why there were 1,923 SuperBirds built, there were 3,846 Plymouth dealers nation wide. As for certain states, which could enforce their own vehicle safety codes if they saw fit, if whatever front bumper we came up with...or didn't, wasn't acceptable to those states, we would have accepted that and not sold wing cars in those states." To read the entire article please go to:
http://www.hotrod.com/web/113_0508_wing/index.html Edit Text
1925
Total number of VINs encompassed by the runs of VINs assigned to Superbirds. This number does not include any of the known cars that fall between the runs. Edit Text
1935
Chrysler Historical Edit Text
1942
Intuition
This is just my gut feeling. Edit Text
2500
This is the number of VONs assigned to the Superbird project as defined by "NASCAR MASTER #1" document. J97000 through J99499, or 2500 units, are defined in the "Special Order No." box. We all know that Plymouth did not use all the assigned VONs.
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