So as we all know not too long ago I had a big discussion over what the real 1971 Roadrunner head was made. I had a lot of rude people talking crap just because they said it was plastic and I said I wanted documentation. They called me all kinds of stupid and names an so on because they couldn't provide the documentation and said ALL metal birds were repops. So they told me to pull the roadrunner heads off of my friends roadrunners who said the real ones were metal. And compare and that the metal ones don't have a serial number. So I followed your advice. I pulled 4 roadrunner heads. All metal. Well guys. You were wrong. All that high and mighty smack talk for what? Lmao. The metal roadrunner heads also didn't come in a box like the one on eBay. They came in a paper envelope. And they didn't have the bolt on the back like "NOS" one with the box on eBay either. My friend also has a 383 auto Survivor that I pulled a head off of. Metal. And the more I thought about it, why would they make the repop out of metal? Unless the original one was metal. They wouldn't make a metal repop of a plastic bird. It way more expensive, in materials, heating metal cost way more than melting plastic. Just ddnt make sense. I mean seriously, why would they make a metal repop of a plastic piece?? Well here it is for you guys that were so smart that you literally threw fits lmao. No hard feelings though ;)
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He also said he was there when they came out. He had one, and he had dozens of those birdheads back then when they were on the streets and that they were all metal. He also went on to tell me that the first 500 birdheads were plum crazy purple and then the factory changed them to violet so there are 2 colors of bird heads and the plum crazy ones are the rarest. He told me a bunch of other stuff I can't remember too like the number of RR's and about Warner Bros. and them pulling the plug on the head production and like an hour of stuff just on the heads. He also said that the molds got sold to the birdheads and since they own the molds that they can sell the plastic ones as NOS because they came from the original molds. But he said all the real ones are metal.
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He also said he was there when they came out. He had one, and he had dozens of those birdheads back then when they were on the streets and that they were all metal. He also went on to tell me that the first 500 birdheads were plum crazy purple and then the factory changed them to violet so there are 2 colors of bird heads and the plum crazy ones are the rarest. He told me a bunch of other stuff I can't remember too like the number of RR's and about Warner Bros. and them pulling the plug on the head production and like an hour of stuff just on the heads. He also said that the molds got sold to the birdheads and since they own the molds that they can sell the plastic ones as NOS because they came from the original molds. But he said all the real ones are metal.
