not a tractor but....

[larry@stinescorner]

I dont remember seeing any of these on the roads when I grew up..,,and sure didnt know anyone that had one

Ithink they are pretty valuable now?

 

[shunkfarm]

There was one in our area when I was young. It was not a Hemi but had one of Mopars big block "hot" engines.

I have never been a Mopar fan but nowadays appreciate most all old iron.

I dont remember any numbers but seen a couple SB for sale for BIG money.
J

 

[fixerupper]

I don't remember seeing any here in Iowa farm country. We had a 66 Belvedere With a 273 (?) that resembled the body style but it was about as far from being a Super Bee as a Corvair is from being a Caddy. LOL.

 

[howdy1960]

IIRC SuperBees were available with Hemi, 440 Magnum, and 383 Magnum

 

[1970-1655]

I know of location of an orange Hemi today. Back when they were new, there were a few with 383 and a couple of 440 cars in the area.

 

[Tom in TN]

I used to live in Dayton, TN (about 40 miles due north of Chattanooga). There was a guy there who had two of them, but I'm not sure about the engines in them. They both had those huge wind wings that stuck up above the trunk lid and were about even with the roof line. I have no idea what has become of them in the last 20 years, but they were an attraction back then.

Tom in TN

 

[shaun wallace]

The ones with wing on back were Super Birds. Guy in Abilene Tx has several. There was blue super bee in Princeton/Ravanna Mo didn't have a Hemi. The Martin boys showed up in Galt Mo with one each in 1970 of orange Super birds. Proably wrecked or repo man got them.

 

[Larry EC-OH]

Yep, They were around all right. I graduated from high school in 1969. My classmates all had cool cars; Chevelle SS 396, GTX hemi, GTO goat, Mustang Shelby, Roadrunner 383 6 pack, Dodge Charger Daytona
(with wings and of course the hemi). I didn't have a car of course until a year later. I was content to drive Dad's 1951 Ford truck.

I was foolish enough to ride with the kid with the GTX hemi when he set the land speed record from Wapello to Columbus Junction. Telephone poles were going past the window like fence posts, we approached
160 on the straights.

 

[old popper]

When I first started at the Wilson Plant back in '68 there were 2 young studs that bought '69s. One a Super Bee, and the other a yellow Road Runner. They drove like maniacs.

 

[gab]

Wasn't many Chryslers around here but across the street in the first pict. I had a 64 Chevy SS that color, first car was a red 64 Implala 2 dr., Had a 69 Camaro SS. It was all Chevys and GTOs around here, most of those big block Chevies wound up wrecked and rebuilt several times.

 

[CGID]

The sheet-metal and interiors of those cars, and others of their type from that era, were cheaply made. The makers put their money into the drivetrain. This kept the cost low enough for a kid flipping burgers to be able to afford one. A teenager with a part-time job could get a loan, buy a 440 six-pack geared for racing, punch the pedal engaging all six carbs, go air- borne and kill himself and his buddies - all in the same day. As much as the engines, the racing stripes - simple stripes of paint - made these cars irresistible. There was no rationality to it, but like everyone else I knew, I lusted after those cars simply because of that stripe. Each maker had their variation: a stripe down the middle!, around the nose!!, a stripe around the tail!!!. Each one was enough to make us swoon. The insurance companies noticed all the dead teenagers pretty quick and set rates high enough to take most of those cars off the road. Any cars not wrecked which survived the insurance rate increase were taken off the road by gas prices after the oil embargo.

 

[ohiojim]

we had one locally but not a hemi, along with a super bird,..i was driving a 70 charger R/T 440

 

[Two Dogs]

I have a friend who had one back when we were young and dumb and bullet proof. I believe that is the fastest I have ever been in a automobile. Thank goodness the Lord looks after drunks and fools because we qualified for both one night when we wound it out and we're both still above ground. TDF

 

[Billy Shafer]

Guy in the town I grew up in. Had a Rambler Scrambler. He shook up quite a few folks. Proved to them that this was not grandmas rambler.

 

[led]

I am still looking for 1965 blue GTO. I sold mine when I was headed for Nam not knowing my fate!!!
Led

 

[jal-SD]

How about a Studebaker Hawk? Not many made, but I had a friend that had one that could eat
Super Bees for breakfast. It was a couple of years older than any of the Mopars, pony cars and GM products of that era, and could take any of them most of the time. It was fun to watch the "Hawk" race. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)

 

[Anonymous-0]

(quoted from post at 16:39:46 05/30/15) I used to live in Dayton, TN (about 40 miles due north of Chattanooga). There was a guy there who had two of them, but I'm not sure about the engines in them. They both had those huge wind wings that stuck up above the trunk lid and were about even with the roof line. I have no idea what has become of them in the last 20 years, but they were an attraction back then.

Tom in TN

Those weren't Super Bee's they were Dodge Daytona's or Plymouth Super Bird's.

Oh....the reason no one seen them was because.... well they were just that quick. :wink:

 

[centash]

Those Ramblers had one of the highest HP/Weight ratio's available in the day.Getting all that torque to hook was the problem. The Rebel machine introduced a year later in 1970 sovled that problem---heavier car, better suspension, bigger tires---and a bigger engine. I think the Rambler S/C listed for $2995---a good one today will bring close to 50 thousand.

Ben

 

[MeanGene1]

There was (and I still have mine) a great comparison article in Car & Driver in '69 called The Econo-Racers, six car competition of the strippers- a 383 Super Bee, Pontiac Judge, Chevelle 396/375hp, Fairlane Cobra 428CJ, Cyclone 428CJ, and a Roadrunner with a Hammy. Drag strip, road course, braking tests etc. Hammy was first, but by a very small margin over the Cobra Jet Fairlane, Cyclone next, then the Bee and Judge, and the Chebbie dead last

 

[Billy Shafer]

I use to have a GT Hawk. 289 with the Paxton blower.Sure loved gas,but may have been my lead foot.

 

[mj]

Back about 68 or 69 there was a young lawyer in Colo. Springs that had a bunch of kids, a wife and a dog that he needed to haul around SO he bought a full-size station wagon ...... WITH a [b:399f8bb1c9]HEMI!!![/b:399f8bb1c9] :shock: Talk abut a sleeper!!!! It was the only one I ever saw .... or heard about 8)