re: Barrett-Jackson: 1970 Super Bird goes for $1.65 Million.

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You're correct, my mistake. The Daytona could from what I've read.

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Neither of the road-legal Winged Warriors could even get near 2 bills off the lot. Buddy Bakers #99 was the first NASCAR to (barely) hit 200 and that was the highly modified race car.

The first road-legal production car to hit 200 was the Ferrari F40 in 1987.

For perspective, the only production Corvette ever made with a top speed over 200mph was the C6 ZR1. That required about 200 more horsepower than the Wing Warriors had with the Hemi and that number is net not gross like in the 60's and early 70s.

Muscle cars are cool AF but they are often considered much faster and quicker than they really were. A stock 1970 Cuda Hemi would get smoked 0-60 and in the 1/4 by a modern Honda Civic Type R. In modern terms 60s-70s muscle cars were slow but they are still damn cool.