427 Mystery Engine

[Verne_Frantz]

Up until a year ago there were 2 clones known to exist. Junior himself owns one. I think it's been established that the original car no longer exists. I'm not sure where the car you saw came from. It could be Junior's or Floyd's or a new one.

Verne

[Racefan]

Off topic, but there are two of the NASCAR Superbirds left in existance. One is in the Petty museum, the other belonged to a relative of mine (and driver), Ramo Stott, until a few years ago. A collector in Ohio (I believe) now owns the car. Original engine-- VERY complete car. I have some video of it running that I can send someone if interested. Send me a PM.

[Dog427435]

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[mopar_steve]

The Petty Museum Superbird is not an original Nascar Superbird. It was never even used in competition. It's a clone that was put together by the Petty's in the very late 70's out of spare parts they had lying around because Richard thought he should have one since he thought then that they were a piece of history.

There is a real Petty Superbird that is the only survivor out of the 2 he had that year in the hands of a collector in Virginia. It's supposedly unrestored and the guy built a special room in his house especially for the car. The same guy also has the 1984 Pontiac "200th Win" car.

[Dog427435]

[b] Starting line up for the "500" and a couple articles on those bad Chevy's!
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[YenkoYS-199Stinger]

Mopar Steve,

I thought the Petty "200th win" car is in The Smithsonian. At least when I was there in the late 80's it was shown as the real thing and not a clone for display purposes.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collec...amp;objkey=127

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Chris
1966 Yenko Stinger YS-070
1967 Yenko Stinger YS-199
Southeast of Disorder

[Z-11GUY]

Great photos, just amazing history on these cars. Did you ever see the Bubba (Marion) Farr 1963 car as well? I know out of the 5 1963 mystery motor cars that qualified his was by far the slowest due to 427 reliablity issues. As I recollect the only 1963 427 Chevrolet that finished had been Smokey Yunick/Johnny Rutherford who placed 9th place at Daytona. I'm sure he would of won had it not been for that back stretch wipe out on turn #2. I think AJ Foyt ran the car afterwards briefly for Smokey. I recollect Rex White having head gasket/cooling issues with his '63 as well, and Junior's waterpump went out as well. I'm not sure what happened to teammate GC Spencer's car nor Bubba Farr's either during the 1963 Daytona 500, great photos again, thanks.

[Verne_Frantz]

Raj,
This is from a friend of mine who is a NASCAR historian:

Rex White is shown as finishing 14th at Daytona and still running. Smokey's car is shown: 3/17 driven by AJ on at Atlanta--- not finishing (Trans)......6/2 driven by Banjo Matthews at Charlotte---not finishing (diff.).....7/4 driven by A.J at Daytona firecracker 400---not finishing (engine).......9/2 driven by Buck Baker at Darlington--- finishing 10th........ 10/3 driven by Bobby Isaac at Charlotte not finishing (crash). There may be others I missed. Rex White switched to Mercury at least by 7/4.
The G.C Spencer/Ray Fox car is listed as out (engine) and the Bubba Farr/W M Harrison out (fuel pump).

Verne

[Dog427435]

[b] Came across this article in the May 1963 issue of Hot Rod
Check out the Prestolite battery

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