Superbird Runs Daytona 500 in 2025?

[Dibbons]

When my parents went to special order a 1971 Plymouth Road Runner at Normindin Chrysler Plymouth in San Jose, the salesman first offered to sell them a leftover Lemon Twist Superbird still for sale in the back lot.

I would like to see the 1969 Dodge Daytona (number 22) that ran the 305 Mopar small block in the 1971 Daytona 500 run against Petty current competitors. In the real 1971 race, the 305 led for a few laps but then was invovled in a fender bender and set it back in the pack. The driver Brooks qualified eighth in the field and finished seventh.

Would be a cool video game:

 

[DeltaV]

"The way to make them more exciting is to give them more horsepower, and let them run faster. The faster they run, the more the driver has to stay on his toes," Richard Petty said in a video posted by him on X.

"And when you get cars running, 200 miles an hour instead of 185 miles an hour, all the drivers are not capable of running that speed, that close to each other. So that's the first thing to really separate the cars because that's the way how it used it be," he added.

Millionaire NASCAR figure Richard Petty offers a straightforward solution for superspeedway racing problems

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A properly done video game could hook the youngsters, but it's no substitute for the raw feel of being there.

 

[R413]

Would that 305 inch Daytona go 200? The new car would run away from it, overall very high tech and better aerodaynamics.

 

[DeltaV]

The King drove a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, not a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona.

 

[Unkle Krusty]

I would like to borrow one of their engine builders for a weekend, while I put my 318 back together.

 

[odcics2]

Baker ran his 200.447 mph record speed with around 600 hp, as installed in the #88 Daytona. (serial #DC-93)

This hp number takes into account using ram air from the base of the windshield.

 

[maxwedgechar]

Somebody asked Brooks what RPM he was running at, 8 grand? And Brooks said "No Nine"!

 

[odcics2]

Nascar drivers and crew chiefs have been known to exaggerate.

Charlie Glotzbach said he ran 243mph in July 1969 testing DC-93.
Reality was 205. But it makes for a good story!

 

[SgtSuperbird]

Nascar drivers and crew chiefs have been known to exaggerate.

Charlie Glotzbach said he ran 243mph in July 1969 testing DC-93.
Reality was 205. But it makes for a good story!

That must have been in kilometers!

 

[DeltaV]

Somebody asked Brooks what RPM he was running at, 8 grand? And Brooks said "No Nine"!

Nine?...who'll give me 10?


Rossi rolled into Daytona with his driver Richard Brooks, undoubtedly to sneers and jeers. The guy was obviously nuts. Then they qualified the car eighth in the starting grid. Then they led five laps of the race. France had to be chugging Maalox.

Brooks got the car sideways and collided with Pete Hamilton, but still managed a seventh place finish. The car could have won the race and completed one of the greatest upsets in the history of organized auto racing. As best we know, that was the only appearance for the roaring little 305ci small block, but what a day it was.

Richard Brooks has been interviewed about the car and the little engine that wouldn’t die. He’s stated publicly that he watched the tach needle climb past 10,000 rpm on the straights.


1971 Daytona 500


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[Bird 426]

I helped a local drag racer for a couple of years. This was '72-73. He was or had been sponsored in part by Chrysler, Koful. Always wondered about a Hemi short block that we played with, 305 cu in . I am still and never will be a Nascar fan. Before they knocked the Hemi out, was this 305 Hemi some in-between idea that got shelved? We tried carb tunnel ram and fuel injection on it. Ran E gas. It looked good and sounded a little light in the exhaust. Can not remember 1/4 mile times. Was just wondering.

 

[odcics2]

The 305 that was in Brooks #22 Daytona was a destroked 340 wedge, not a hemi.
It was basically the same as a MoPar Trans Am 305 used in the 1970 Gurney AAR
'cuda and the Posey Challenger. Keith Black built it.

The #22 305 engine redline was 8400-8500. Max HP was at 7,800 rpms
Intake was a modified Edelbrock LD-340.

More good info here - https://www.hotrod.com/features/blacks-mini-mopar-magic-april-1971-982-818-42-1/

 

[maxwedgechar]

At the 2019 Mecum Harrisburg Auction they were auctioning a collection and there was a Petty Superbird. I talked to the guy who was there to talk about the car and he had worked at Petty Enterprises. I told him I have 8MM movies of the 1970 Trenton race and he told me that this was the car that won and he was pit crew!