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The Plymouth Superbird is a highly modified, short-lived version of the Plymouth Road Runner with applied graphic images as well as a distinctive horn sound, both referencing the popular Looney Tunes cartoon character Road Runner. It was the factory's follow-up stock car racing design, for the 1970 season, to the Dodge Charger Daytona of 1969 ...
The 1970 Daytona 500 was a stock car automobile race run on February 22, 1970, and was the second race for the winged Plymouth Superbird. Pete Hamilton won the race in a Plymouth Superbird. 40- Pete Hamilton; 17- David Pearson; 22- Bobby Allison-1; 99- Charlie Glotzbach-1; 71- Bobby Isaac-2; 14- Richard Brickhouse-2; 59- Jim Hurtubise-3; 7 ...
1970 Daytona 500. The 1970 Daytona 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series race held on February 22, 1970, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. First Daytona 500 starts for Joe Frasson, Dick Trickle, Tommy Gale, Ron Keselowski, and Jim Vandiver. [2] Only Daytona 500 start for Butch Hirst, Paul Feldner, Ron Grana, and ...
Appearance. Jimmie Johnson won the pole position for the Daytona 500 in 2002 and 2008. Daytona 500 pole position winners for the NASCAR Cup Series 's Daytona 500 are rewarded with being the driver to lead the field across the start line at the beginning of the 200-lap 500-mile (800 km) race. Pole qualifying for the Daytona 500 is held one ...
The name was taken from Daytona Beach, Florida, which was an early center for auto racing and still hosts the Daytona 500, NASCAR 's premier event. The original Dodge Charger Daytona was designed to beat the competition in NASCAR racing. It was the first NASCAR vehicle to reach 200 miles per hour, which was a major milestone at the time.
Aero Warriors, also called aero-cars, is a nickname for four muscle cars developed specifically to race on the NASCAR circuit by Dodge, Plymouth, Ford and Mercury for the 1969 and 1970 racing seasons. [1] The cars were based on production stock cars but had additional aerodynamic features. The first Aero Warrior was the 1969 Ford Torino Talladega.
Plymouth Superbird. During the 1969 NASCAR "aero wars," Chrysler first fielded the Dodge Charger 500 that featured aerodynamic improvements to a standard 1969 Charger. Later in the season, Chrysler and Dodge debuted the Dodge Charger Daytona. The Daytona featured an elevated spoiler raised 23 inches off the trunk deck by upright pylons and an ...
Four drivers have won the event twice in a row, but no one has won three or more consecutively. [1] Trevor Bayne and Bobby Allison are the youngest and oldest Daytona 500 winners, winning at the ages of 20 years and 1 day in 2011 and 50 years, 2 months, and 11 days old in 1988, respectively. [15][16] Petty also holds the distinction of having ...