SEPTEMBER 1989 PLYMOUTH SUPER BIRD

Classic and performance car values across the world were booming but the 1989 NZ exchange rate was in typically parlous shape – around US 59 cents per NZ$ – so this LHD Superbird most likely flapped its way back home. If it did move Trans-Tasman it would have joined a handful of similar cars now on our shores and appreciated as demand for manual-tranny ‘Birds and Daytonas increased. Excusing the strange ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ wheels, a car like this hot-looking Plymouth could today reach $150,000.

SINCE THEN: After pea king above US $500,000, the highflying Super bird’ s wings have been trim med as more come to market. Even so, the values of quite ordinary cars remain above2011levels.