{"id":325865,"date":"2025-10-23T07:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:06:17","slug":"woman-fixing-up-abandoned-plymouth-superbird-nascar-gets-a-call-from-goodyear-corporate-asking-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325865\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman fixing up abandoned Plymouth Superbird NASCAR gets a call from Goodyear Corporate asking to see it"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTuber and racer Emelia Hartford<\/a> recently discovered a barn find Plymouth Superbird NASCAR muscle car that had been abandoned, and Goodyear Corporate got in touch to ask if they could see it.<\/p>\n

The American YouTuber had rescued the legendary car after it had been sitting in a barn for 27 years, and had it restored in the spirit of those who used to race in NASCAR.<\/p>\n

Goodyear Corporate then got in touch, asking if they could have it tested at its high-performance proving grounds.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Hartford jumped at the opportunity to see just how fast this car now was.<\/p>\n

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The Plymouth Superbird NASCAR has had a major restoration<\/p>\n

Despite being abandoned for 27 years<\/a>, Emelia Hartford and her team had done wonders to transform it into a 200mph missile on wheels.<\/p>\n

Her aim wasn\u2019t for it to just look fast, but also to go fast as well.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, her video<\/a> certainly showed that she had achieved this.<\/p>\n

The muscle car<\/a> had evolved from a rusty shell to one finished in gorgeous Goodyear blue.<\/p>\n

It now has the classic logo across the bodywork; the car has been truly transformed Superbird.<\/p>\n

\"Emelia<\/a>Emelia Hartford<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking good was only half of the barn find project, however.<\/p>\n

The next step was to see just how hard the Superbird could be run on track.<\/p>\n

After practice runs in a Shelby Mustang, she then took the Plymouth out onto the circuit.<\/p>\n

How did the NASCAR perform out on the proving ground?<\/p>\n

Hartford\u2019s first run was gentle, to try and warm the muscle car up and see how it handled.<\/p>\n

On that initial run, she got the car up to around 113mph, which was very good for a first attempt.<\/p>\n

The next run was, however, even more incredible.<\/p>\n

Hartford got the Plymouth Superbird NASCAR<\/a> up to a top speed of 206.4mph.<\/p>\n

Other than popping out of third gear, the Superbird looked like it reached that speed with ease.<\/p>\n

One of the Goodyear people then told Hartford the top speed for a Superbird<\/a> was around 220mph.<\/p>\n

\"Emelia<\/a>Emelia Hartford<\/a><\/p>\n

That gave her a new target to aim for.<\/p>\n

She did take the car out again to see if it could go even faster than on her second run.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, she got the Superbird up to 210mph.<\/p>\n

That was where she and her team left it after this run.<\/p>\n

But we do wonder if Emelia Hartford could get the muscle car up to that tantalising 220mph\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTuber and racer Emelia Hartford recently discovered a barn find Plymouth Superbird NASCAR muscle car that had been…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-325865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115422218857812018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}