Plymouth Superbird (1970)

The Plymouth Superbird was built for NASCAR aerodynamics, with a pointed nose cone and towering rear wing that made it one of the most outrageous American production cars of 1970. It was created to bring Plymouth success on high-speed oval tracks.

Its importance comes from the brief wing-car era, when manufacturers pushed homologation rules to extremes. The Superbird’s shape was functional first and strange second, and that purpose-built oddness is exactly why it remains so fascinating.