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Daytona estate

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 9:37 am
by morgan
Oldie but goodie - thought some of the newer members may not have seen this. I have a wheelchair superbird somewhere...

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 9:46 am
by Raminduction
Fugly :(

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 9:48 am
by Blue
C'mon Morgan get with the terminology, that's not an estate it's a sedan delivery. Works for me, but then I am a sedan delivery perv...

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 9:51 am
by hemi472
i like it - i also think the superbird wheelchair one is cool as well - its a picture from behind going down an interstate isnt it ?

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 11:45 am
by morgan
Blue wrote:C'mon Morgan get with the terminology, that's not an estate it's a sedan delivery. Works for me, but then I am a sedan delivery perv...
Thats me. Not even 'with it' enough for terminology thats knocking on 50 years old... :cry:

Here's the wheelchair 'bird -

Re: Daytona estate

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 12:55 pm
by Dave81
morgan wrote:Oldie but goodie - thought some of the newer members may not have seen this. I have a wheelchair superbird somewhere...
Think it would have been better if they had followed the angle of the rear glass......Parallel Lines work better.....And added rear windows into the huge metal slab.......Plus put a rear wing on the edge of the roofline.

Think it could work.........:D

Neither of those though look that bad.

Was it the Trans-Am that they did the Kammback version off......same league for me.......3/10 for final product, 10/10 for effort......... :thumbright:

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 7:09 pm
by hemi472
Yes it was the Trans Am - they did them as concept cars in 77 and 79 , and some aftermarket company did some replicas of them for big money , the episode of the Rockford files was on BBC2 last year that featured one of them in it :thumbright:

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 7:26 pm
by Blue
Seem to recall there was something similar available for 'vettes as well.

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 9:10 pm
by hemi472
Blue wrote:Seem to recall there was something similar available for 'vettes as well.
I've seen the ones for the '70's 'vettes before - but I just googled it and came up with this never seen a mid-year wagon conversion before :shock:

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 9:24 pm
by Super Sloth
Fantastic pictures. I'd actually seen the super bird years ago - I just wasn't educated well enough back then to recognise what a super bird was!
Not the most aesthetically successful of conversions, but invariably there has to be some compromise.
We used to have a white mk1 polo affectionately known as " the pope mobile" with a similarly shaped conversion that we used to transport my late grandmother when she became wheelchair bound and it served its purpose well enough.
Not pretty to look at, granted, but it obviously served the purpose to allow someone who was physically disabled to continue to enjoy going out in their mopar and the only thing cooler than a mopar is a mopar with a wing on the back!

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 16 10:01 pm
by Garp
Love the Charger Wagon. If it's ugly and you don't want it, I'll have it.
:thumbright:

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 16 8:51 am
by Don
The wheelchair 'Bird could come in handy soon .... :thumbright:

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 16 9:18 am
by Blue
hemi472 wrote:
Blue wrote:Seem to recall there was something similar available for 'vettes as well.
I've seen the ones for the '70's 'vettes before - but I just googled it and came up with this never seen a mid-year wagon conversion before :shock:
Yikes, that really doesn't work at all! Rear window reminded me of those '70's Volvo P1800 estates.

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 16 12:37 pm
by Ivor
...and they've stretched it, moving the rear axle back about 18"...it's all wrong that one!

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 16 1:27 pm
by Dom66
And another...
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