Superbird - Evidence for Various Production Totals

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

The Last Page of the NASCAR Serial Number List

1920

This is number of entries in the NASCAR Serial number list. As we all know there are many discrepancies in this list.

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 any
consideration 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

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.

1935

Chrysler Historical

1942

Intuition

This is just my gut feeling.

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.