The Daytona and Superbird show

This my first video on you tube so forgive me if i had made some mistakes in the film.

About the show

This is a little tribute to 2 of the famous cars to ever race around the banks of speedways in the U.S between 1969 to 1971.
Famous drivers like Richard Petty Bobbie Allision and many others drove these cars in Nascar ACRA and the old USAC series.
The track used in this vid is
Focus'
Hocus Pocus

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Focus
• Hocus
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• Dodge
• Charger
• Plymouth
• Superbird
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[RhoadsYoung]

What Is the Song ??

[Welshmonster87]

Focus

Hocus Pocus :)

[ten8goa]

The song accompanying this snapshot vid sucks beyond belief. How could someone write those shitty lyrics (what few there are) and actually record them and let anyone hear them?

[Welshmonster87]

Yeah, the lyrics are not the best. But the reason i pick it was because the guitar music more than the lyrics.

[ten8goa]

The Stock Cars of that era were the most awesome machines of all time

[Welshmonster87]

Yes the best, and also the other cars like the fords and chevys didn't look the fucking same back then. Like now with the shitty COT cars.

[mikefradanmark]

I don´t even bother to see those others videos of the Superbird : this is the best one, because it have something the others haven´t: it CAPTURES the essence and the spirit of those crazy years - hendrix and joplin dead, vietnam burning , you got what a film director has: this need to recreate the atmosphere of those years to fully understand them ; the car is just an excuse: the understanding of that time is what matters. as a kid in the 70´s, it was a pleasure to REVISIT those years.

[SvenTviking]

There was a black Daytona on British number plates. So one at least made it over the pond.

[highwaymantokyo]

love the era and love the car, but I still think Dodge was having a bit of a laugh. There sure isn't any fun in this company anymore!

[Tarten46]

Does anyone know if somebody is popping that picture of Buddy mugging with the 200mph chalkboard in poster form? Me needs some wall decorations.

[PettyMower]

@midatlanticcycle

I never heard about the Wildwood, NJ 'Bird. I'm sure you heard about the Yellow 'Bird in Dover, DE (440+6 ~ 4-speed) that was rotting away in a field not too many years ago.

I talked to the owner of that car more than once. He was the original owner, and was not interested in selling. During the times that I talked to him it was still in his garage in Dover.

[midatlanticcycle]

@PettyMower keener was always a bit of a big feeling, rising star type. IMO. he came on the scene strong with his good lookin' old lady, buying up everything in site, then divorce court came along and he lost everything. LOL

he tried to buy my 71 Hemi GTX and RT/SE Hemi Challenger from me a few times but i never had any dealings with him. i don't remember that bird on or near skyline drive but i do remember the identical bird in south jersey rotting away by the shore near wildwood.

[magnaflowedramx4]

@midatlanticcycle' Have been into Mopars my whole life. My dad used to drive all the HEMI's back in the 50's.. My father taught me well. LOL !

[PettyMower]

@midatlanticcycle

No....that was not my 'Bird. It currently has approx. 80,000 miles, and I still occasionally drive it.

If you subscribe to Mopar Collector's Guide you may have seen my car in their "Toys in the Attic" article that featured my Richard Petty riding mowers.

How is Ed these days?

[PettyMower]

@midatlanticcycle Keith Keener....I haven't heard that name in a long time. I remember him have a few VERY nice cars and an attractive wife. LOL

There used to be a Yellow Bird (440+6, 4-speed) sitting on top of a hill, on Skyline Drive. The nose was beat up very bad!!! The owner was a black fellow, he was a manager of a Giant grocery store. I tried to buy the car, as did many, I'm sure. I eventually gave up and heard that Keith purchased the car. I believe this was not long before his divorce.

[midatlanticcycle]

@PettyMower i know those guys. ed bohr was big in the mopar vintage scene for many years and he and a guy named keith keener used to put on that hagerstown show. keener got mixed up in domestic problems and lost the few cars he had. i never saw that red daytona you speak of but it wasn't my car. 20 years ago or so i went out to central PA to look at a low-mileage FJ5 (lime light) superbird that a guy had in his garage forever. think it had about 19,000 miles or so on it. was that your car?

[PettyMower]

@midatlanticcycle

I still own the Lime-Lite Green Bird that I purchased in 1986. I once parked beside a red/white Daytona that only had 503 miles. I believe it was 1987 in Hagerstown, MD. It was a show put on by Ed Bohr (sp?). The guy with the Daytona won best of show, and although they gave me best wing car....it should have went to the Daytona. (Was that you and your Daytona?)

Ed has tried to purchase my car multiple times, and I last heard from him in 2002.